At First Step House, housing is more than a roof – it is healthcare. Every apartment and recovery residence we create is designed for people whose health conditions and life experiences have kept them from stability anywhere else.
Most people who enter our housing move step by step into independent living. Recovery residences provide a safe bridge: graduates of treatment live in sober, affordable housing while working, saving money, and preparing for life on their own.
For a smaller group of people – those with serious, long-term behavioral health conditions – permanent supportive housing is essential. These apartments combine affordability with onsite healthcare and support, creating stability where repeated cycles of homelessness and crisis once defined their lives.
Together, this continuum ensures that no matter someone’s level of need, they have a safe place to live and the healthcare to make recovery possible.
Safe, affordable apartments with onsite services for people living with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, or disabilities. Designed for those who cannot sustain housing without ongoing healthcare and support.
Central City Apartments
One-bedroom units
Medina Place Apartment
One-bedroom units
Stratford Apartments
Studio units
44 North
(opening 2026) — 67 units
Gardens at Palmer Court
(opening 2028) — 61 units
273 East
(opening 2028) — 34 units
52 units for people completing treatment who would otherwise face homelessness. Short-term, sober housing that allows residents to work, attend outpatient treatment, and save for independent housing.
Valor House is Utah’s only transitional housing for veterans experiencing both homelessness and behavioral health conditions.
First Step House provides case management services for many deeply affordable apartment units throughout Salt Lake County. These units offer safe, stable permanent housing for families at risk of homelessness.
→ 322 by 2028
Bridging Treatment to Independence
Stay Safely Housed
Graduates Secured Long-Term Housing
At First Step House they don't offer short-cuts or shallow, easy promises. They think long term about what people need to change their lives, and then take action to provide services throughout a person's journey to recovery
I just got a big promotion, and I’m able to start saving money so that I can focus on, you know, getting all the things that I want or need as opposed to being helpless and running around the streets. So, I’m very hopeful!
→ 322 by 2028
bridging treatment to independence
stay safely housed
graduates secured long-term housing
Every home we create is a healthcare intervention. Your support ensures more
people can move from crisis to recovery and lifelong stability.
