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

Artspace finding success in the nonprofit sector

Artspace was founded in 1980, but its efforts to provide living and working space for artists have accelerated since executive director Jessica Norie joined the organization in 1998. Deseret News

HUD Educates Partners on Renter Protections

HUD published a notice in the Federal Register on June 23 regarding the new Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act (PTFA). The notice describes the obligations imposed on immediate successors of interest in any residential property following a foreclosure. Read the full notice on

NLIHC Web site

Provo selects neighborhoods for HUD grants

PROVO — Six neighborhoods will benefit from two annual U.S. Housing and Urban Development grants over the next fiscal year. Deseret News

Questions surround housing for homeless seniors

Despite lingering community outrage and multiple financial delays, the Kelly Benson apartments for homeless seniors are finally under construction in West Valley City. For advocates of the homeless, the facility is one more housing success in Utah. The Salt Lake Tribune

Four groups bid on affordable-housing program

In a do-over, four groups have submitted bids to oversee the distribution of $20 million in federal dollars aimed at reducing foreclosures and homelessness in Utah. The bidders were Weber Housing Authority, Froerer Real Estate Inc. Property Management, Utah Center for Affordable Housing and Utah Community Reinvestment Corp.

The Salt Lake Tribune

New Federal Law Gives Utah Renters New Rights

Advocates and state lawmakers who worked on a housing bill last legislative session teamed up yesterday to spread the word about a new federal law that gives Utah's renters more time to move out if their home is foreclosed on. KCPW

Affordable 'green' housing springs up in Magna

The nonprofit Community Development Corp. of Utah is building the first of five homes for low-income families on a vacant Magna field, loading it with energy-efficient insulation and gadgets that will save the owner hundreds of dollars a year.  The Salt Lake Tribune  Deseret News

Utah officials promote new federal law providing renters

a safety net

Fresh federal legislation, signed into law May 20 by President Barack Obama, gives renters in foreclosed properties the right of at least 90 days notice before having to move. The Salt Lake Tribune 

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Legislators and Advocates Seek to Spread the Word about Important New Legislation

Utah Housing Coalition and Community Action Partnership of Utah will hold a news conference on June 17 to discuss Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009, which was signed into law on May 20, 2009 by President Obama. Effective as of that date, tenants in foreclosed properties must be given a notice at least 90 days before being required to move. Read the full PRESS RELEASE

Utah Housing Coalition Celebrates Manufactured Housing Week

This week, National Manufactured Housing Week, Utah Housing Coalition is dispelling myths and opening the doors of homeownership to all income levels in America, by improving housing in a previously ignored sector—manufactured homes. Read the full PRESS RELEASE

Utahns make dash for 'Home Runs': Supply of $6,000 federal grants for those buying new homes is almost exhausted

Since being signed into law in mid-March, the state's "Home Run" housing grant program has committed to doling out more than 1,400 grants of $6,000 each to Utahns purchasing newly constructed, never-occupied, single-family homes. Deseret News

Group helps keep manufactured homes in place

Though more than 75,000 Utahns still live in manufactured homes, many are losing the ground that their homes rest on. At a recent seminar held at the Memorial Courthouse in downtown Farmington, it was noted that the majority of Utah’s manufactured homes are sited in “leased-land” communities. Davis County Clipper

Homelessness in Rural Utah

Utah Homeless Task Force Director Lloyd Pendleton says the homeless problem in rural communities is often hidden: Encampments are more difficult to find and the community sometimes doesn't want to acknowledge it. There are currently an estimated 2,500 homeless people, including 250 who are chronically homeless, in rural parts of the state. Pendleton says two new projects in Price and Helper will not only help some of them get back on their feet, but they'll be good for the entire community. KCPW

Housing aid project to be rebid

A state official has decided to halt the award of a bid to administer nearly $20 million in federal affordable-housing funds and rebid the project, saying the process has been unfair. Palmer DePaulis, executive director of Utah's Department of Community and Culture, overruled his subordinate, Gordon Walker, in deciding to reopen bidding.

The Salt Lake Tribune

Foreclosure pressure builds in the state, nation

In Utah, 8.4 percent of homeowners with a mortgage are either behind on their payments or in foreclosure, and on a national level now even those with good credit and fixed rates are starting to suffer.

The Salt Lake Tribune

Federal housing aid funds sit idle in Utah

In March, Utah received nearly $20 million in federal dollars to shore up communities riddled with foreclosed and abandoned homes.

So far, the money sits idle, generating growing concern among Utah's affordable housing advocates, who fear the state will miss out on the next round of neighborhood stabilization plan (NSP) funding.

The Salt Lake Tribune

Salt Lake City RDA purchases Rio Grande Hotel

By unanimous vote Tuesday, the Redevelopment Agency agreed to pay roughly $375,000 for the vacant Rio Grande Hotel at 428 W. 300 South in a move that will provide more downtown affordable housing.

The 49 weekly rental units will provide backup should, as expected, the city decide to close the rundown Regis and Cambridge hotels on State Street between 200 South and 300 South.

The Salt Lake Tribune      Deseret News

Manufactured housing gets a boost

Manufactured housing puts homeownership within reach for many who otherwise could only afford to rent their own living space. And now, recession-driven incentives make this housing option even more attractive. The Salt Lake Tribune

Neighborhood Stabilization Program Grants 

Secretary Shaun Donovan announced today the release of Neighborhood Stabilization Program2 (NSP2) and Neighborhood Stabilization Program-Technical Assistance (NSP-TA). See Press Release. Both programs were established under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Under NSP2 $1.93 billion will be made available to states, local governments, nonprofits and a consortia of nonprofit entities on a competitive basis for the purpose of carrying out NSP activities. The deadline to apply for NSP2 funding is July 17, 2009. Under NSP-TA, $50 million will be made available to national and local technical assistance providers to support NSP grantees. The deadline to apply for NSP-TA funding is June 8, 2009.

Get Gephardt: Renter Pays The Price When Landlord Forecloses

How would you like to be evicted from your home—not because you didn't pay—but because someone else failed to pay the mortgage? But worse, the call came to  Get Gephardt after a Salt Lake family continued to be charged for rent as the bank threw them out. So, Bill Gephardt began investigating. KUTV

Renters feeling economic crunch

According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, a family in Utah must earn $29,459 a year or $14.16 per hour to afford a modest two-bedroom, $736-a-month rental. That's 216 percent of the $6.55 minimum that average low-income earners make here. Deseret News

Merrill Lynch to Finance Resident Owned Communities

Merrill Lynch Community Development Company, LLC announced the opening of a $10mm Line of Credit with ROC USA™ Capital. ROC USA Capital makes commercial loans to the owners of manufactured or “mobile” homes who have formed a resident corporation to purchase their manufactured home community. Business Wire