The site of a future homeless services campus at 2520 N. 2200 West in Salt Lake City is pictured with I-215 in the foreground on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)
After the state announced a 1,300-bed homeless campus in northwest Salt Lake City, nearby North Salt Lake neighbors have been touring the undeveloped site, measuring the time it would take someone to walk from the campus to their city’s border, taking note of the nearest gas station to the campus, and eyeing other potential properties that they hope could move the project away from their backyards.
Wayne Niederhauser, the state’s homelessness coordinator, sat in front of an often rowdy crowd at the North Salt Lake City Hall Tuesday evening to answer questions about the project, which represents a major move for the Utah Office of Homeless Services and the Utah Homeless Board, tasked with increasing the state’s emergency homeless shelter capacity in a campus-like setting with support and treatment to help people moving out of homelessness…