Nichole and Matt Solt, who are direct neighbors with the site of a newly announced homeless services campus, express their frustration and concern at a meeting with community members at the Day-Riverside Branch library in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)
The evening after state leaders announced they had decided to build a 1,300-bed “transformative” homeless campus in northwest Salt Lake City, the community’s fear and anger was palpable.
About 100 people from west-side Salt Lake City crammed into a room at the Day-Riverside Library in Rose Park on Wednesday night, when state leaders listened to frustrations after they had already made the decision to purchase the property at 2520 N. 2200 West following a long, secretive search…