Over a year ago, Salt Lake County’s mayor Ben McAdams made the controversial decision to build a homeless shelter in South Salt Lake at the end of a dead-end road next to a juvenile detention facility. He didn’t have much of a choice; he had to agree to build it somewhere.
South Salt Lake was not pleased. At first, Mayor Cherie Wood proclaimed she would fight the decision, especially after she found out the facility would house only single men. She has since relented.
But residents next to the proposed site still aren’t happy, and those residents, in addition to the city, are resisting the timeline of starting construction by the end of June.