Switchpoint breaks ground on new Salt Lake City housing as demand continues to grow

  • Switchpoint broke ground on 76 new housing units in Salt Lake City on Thursday.
  • CEO Carol Hollowell highlighted the growing demand and older adult homelessness concern.
  • Funding comes from Salt Lake County and partners; completion expected by March 2027.

SALT LAKE CITY — As county leaders and Switchpoint officials broke ground Thursday morning on a new expansion at a Salt Lake City homeless resource center, one resident offered a reminder of what a place like it can mean.

“This is something I wrote,” James Head said.

Head, who lives at Switchpoint’s housing facility near the Salt Lake City airport, recently wrote a poem…

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