Mayor announces new housing initiatives to combat housing crisis
Faced with an affordable housing crisis that appears to be worsening despite local efforts, on Tuesday city officials announced they are moving forward with two…
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City seeks developers for affordable housing loan program
Like most of the country, Salt Lake City is experiencing an affordable housing crisis. In the last year, the city’s rents grew faster than every…
City looking at its unused land for more affordable housing
Salt Lake City officials have explored several different means to increase the city’s affordable housing stock including redistributing $21 million to fund affordable housing projects,…
Salt Lake City officials hope new plan will increase city’s housing stock
In the face of rising rents and an increasingly limited housing supply, the Salt Lake City Council unanimously adopted the Growing SLC Housing Plan that will guide…
Officials celebrate more affordable housing
The city continues to chip away at a large affordable housing deficit. Today local officials gathered to officially open the city’s newest addition in affordable…
Salt Lake is booming, but not for everyone
In many ways, it feels like the best of times in Salt Lake City; the metro had the second largest job growth in 2016 among…
City Council explores fixes to city’s housing crisis
As more and more Utahns trade their suburban trappings for life in the big city, the capital’s affordable housing crisis grows increasingly dire with each…
Limited supply is driving up housing costs
Several local and national studies show that Salt Lake City is in a housing crisis. According to reports by Zillow, Apartment list and a housing…
Fleet block to lead innovation in the Granary
Utah’s emerging start-up culture is helping drive the state’s technology boom and is drawing national attention to the region. Salt Lake leaders want to ensure that…
City touts progress in closing the affordable housing gap
In the shadow of the new residential development along 400 South is the adjacent and nearly completed First Step House Recovery Campus, a treatment facility dedicated to…
Salt Lake on the Street: Pipeline project will add more affordable housing
Salt Lake on the Street is a weekly podcast featuring discussions with community stakeholders about Salt Lake urban and community development. The podcast is made…
City presents new plan to increase affordable housing
Half of renter households in Salt Lake City are burdened by excessive housing costs, meaning that they spend over 30 percent of their income on…
