South Salt Lake welcomes first-of-its-kind homeless shelter for families

Take a look inside the Salt Lake Valley’s newest homeless shelter

A retrofitted Motel 6 in South Salt Lake will offer refuge to some of Utah’s most vulnerable families as they seek more stable housing.

South Salt Lake welcomes first-of-its-kind homeless shelter for families

Up to 85 families will soon be able to take shelter in a first-of-its-kind facility converted from a motel to temporarily house families facing homelessness.

Once a Motel 6, Utah’s long-awaited family shelter is about to open • Utah News Dispatch

Utah homeless leaders celebrate the ribbon cutting for Utah's first Family Interim Non-Congregate Housing Facility, or FINCH, in South Salt Lake on April 23, 2025. (Katie McKellar / Utah News Dispatch)Tears welled in Michelle Flynn’s eyes as she told a crowd of onlookers how for years Utah’s only family homeless shelter in Midvale has operated at max capacity — at times having to turn parents and their kids away. “Our team members know better th…

Well providing shelter for single mothers and their children

A first-of-its-kind facility to assist homeless women with children has been opened by the Christian Center.

Low-income housing development breaks ground, first of its kind in 40 years

On a rainy Thursday afternoon in North Bend, representatives from a number of organizations gathered for the groundbreaking on the North Bend Family Housing project at the site of the

New homeless supportive housing project breaks ground on South Side

A new housing project to help support more than 200 chronically homeless people officially broke ground Wednesday.