The mission of the Utah Housing Coalition is to be the leader in housing issues and to promote the increase of accessible, affordable housing statewide.  We will achieve our mission through education, advocacy, and cooperative partnerships.

Housing News

As recession deepens, families become the new face of homelessness

The Catholic student center houses homeless families for a week each summer as part of the local Family Promise program. Participating churches in the national program offer space and volunteers all year long to care for families who have run out of options, offering shelter, meals and moral support that keeps them together and off the street.

Deseret News

Provo Residents, Landlords vent frustration with new laws

Utah legislators said they wanted to hear from city residents and landlords about two state laws governing housing regulations. residents warned that new laws would open up single-family neighborhoods to real-estate speculators bent on turning houses into apartments.

The Salt Lake Tribune

Design Build Bluff: Sustainable Homes For People

Who Need Them

Design Build Bluff just finished its seventh-built house in Navajo Nation in Southern Utah. Read the interview with Hank Louis and view some great photos of their projects. Inhabitat Save the World.

Five More States (including Utah )Reach Major Recovery Act Weatherization Milestone

The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that five more states have reached a significant milestone under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act—completing weatherization work for more than 30% of the homes they have planned. Now that New Hampshire, New Mexico, Montana, Minnesota, and Utah have each met this target, along with completing a series of monitoring and reporting milestones, the states will have access to the remaining 50% of their Recovery Act funding for the program. Announcement

The State of the Nation's  Housing 2010

Home sales and housing starts staged an uneven comeback starting in early 2009, according to the State of the Nation’s Housing report released today by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. Improved affordability for first-time homebuyers and extraordinary government intervention helped spark a turnaround and drove all of the increase in existing home sales last year, but record foreclosures continue to pressure markets and millions of homeowners.

PRESS RELEASE

Homelessness targeted with 1 percent donations

It's an ambitious goal -- to end chronic homelessness in Utah by the year 2014. For that to happen, Utahns will need to pitch in. That's why Jack Gallivan, former publisher of The Salt Lake Tribune and founder of the Crusade for the Homeless Foundation, has launched the 1 percent campaign. The Salt Lake Tribune

Salt Lake County working with private lenders

on home-energy loans

Salt Lake County wants to make a friend out of a foe in creating a home-energy program that would extend low-interest loans to residents looking to seal up drafty windows, swap out power-sucking furnaces or put solar panels on the roof. The Salt Lake Tribune

Utah's foreclosure crisis: Worst lurks ahead

Having lagged behind other hard-hit regions where housing markets are now slowly improving, Utah has yet to reach the peak of its crisis.

Read Salt Lake Tribune's comprehensive coverage of foreclosure issues in our state. May 22, 2010 Coverage

It is a must read !

Salt Lake City Creates Nation's First

Comprehensive Sustainability Ordinance

Salt Lake City's Sustainable Code Revision Project is a ground-breaking initiative to incorporate sustainability provisions into zoning and subdivision ordinances.

SLCGREEN

Accessory Dwelling Units

Study Highlights Rental Housing Crisis In Utah

A family in Utah must earn $30,719 annually to be able to afford a modest two-bedroom Fair Market Rent (FMR) apartment at $768, according to a report released today by Utah Housing Coalition. The 2010 Out of Reach report, prepared by the Washington, DC-based National Low Income Housing Coalition, analyzes the relationship between rental housing costs and the minimum wage. Utah Statistics

OUT OF REACH - National Low Income Housing Coalition

Deseret News

The Salt Lake Tribune

KSL

ABC 4

FOX 13

Patchwork of laws squeezes ex-cons

Ogden - At Park Avenue apartments, even one of the security guards is on parole. As of mid-February, at least 19 probationers and parolees were living at the 150-unit complex at the corner of 24th Street and Adams Avenue. Many, including the guard, have drug convictions; a few have committed gun-related or violent crimes.

The Salt Lake Tribune

KSL Investigative Reporting on Meth Decontamination Practices

If you are one of the estimated 200,000 people renting from a landlord who's part of the Utah Apartment Association, you better listen up. A certified decontamination specialist has come forward with information he says is critical to you and your health. KSL

Letter from UAA

KSL 5 News Investigates meth and the

Salt Lake County housing authority

A Kearns mom called KSL for help, concerned that the home she and her children had been moved into was making them sick. A KSL 5 News investigation quickly discovered this home has a troubled past with meth contamination -- something her landlord never disclosed. KSL

Residents, businesses in unincorporated areas face new fee

You have mail -- and it's going to cost you. This week, Salt Lake County will fill the mailboxes of 40,000 homes, 111 churches, 31 fast-food restaurants and eight drugstores in unincorporated areas such as Magna and Millcreek with a new police bill. It's the first of a three-times-a-year mailing that will cost homeowners $174 annually and some businesses much, much more to help the county recoup millions in recession-related losses for law enforcement. If all goes as planned, the fee will raise almost $13 million for the Unified Police Department. The first payments are due April 1. The Salt Lake Tribune

Mobile home advocates to lobby lawmakers

Utah mobile home owners are slated to converge at the state Capitol on Tuesday for the third annual Manufactured Homeowners Housing Day on the Hill. The Salt Lake Tribune

Clearfield rezones mobile home park

Clearfield » The City Council here opted to keep three mobile home parks designated for mobile homes, but in a split decision, rezoned a fourth for commercial uses. While council members noted the Tuesday vote does not close the Clearfield Mobile Home Park, it does ready the area in case any business interests take it over.

The Salt Lake Tribune & Standard Examiner