OUR MISSION
Our Mission
Through Education, Advocacy, and Community Partnerships, the Utah Housing Coalition is dedicated to promoting equitable and sustainable communities to ensure all Utahns have a safe and affordable place to call home.
We seek to accomplish our Mission through the following activities:
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Advocate at the local, state, and federal level
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Provide outreach and partnership-building among diverse groups
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Organize training and capacity building for housing professionals
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Disseminate data and information
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Engage in community education and outreach
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Conduct research and policy analysis
Our Vision
Housing is a human right— and Utah can lead by bringing humanity back into housing. We envision a state where every person has a safe, affordable home. That includes dramatically expanding homes affordable at roughly 30% of Area Median Income—the level many essential workers, caregivers, and service-sector employees earn—so our workforce can live where they work. We pursue this vision through education, advocacy, and cross-sector partnership.
How we’ll get there:
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Expand tenant and landlord education to prevent eviction and stabilize housing.
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Advocate funding and policy that prioritize deeply affordable homes (≤30% AMI) and equity across the housing landscape.
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Unite nonprofit, for-profit, and public partners to turn shared goals into action.
What We Do
At Utah Housing Coalition, everything we do is grounded in three pillars: education, advocacy, and community partnerships.
Through education, we develop and annually update the Tenant Toolkit—a statewide resource that helps renters understand their rights and responsibilities—and we also offer tools and trainings for housing professionals, homeowners, and landlords, including foreclosure-prevention information, mortgage servicer events, monthly member meetings, and the Utah Housing Matters Conference. Through advocacy, we track local, state, and federal housing legislation, produce up-to-date, data-informed materials, and champion affordable, safe, and accessible housing—especially for Utahns at greatest risk of displacement. Through community partnerships, we connect nonprofits, counselors, municipalities, lenders, and housing agencies so the right people are at the table, working together on practical, innovative solutions that keep families stably housed.
Together, these efforts help Utah households move from housing insecurity toward lasting stability and opportunity.
Our History
The Utah Housing Coalition has been a driving force for housing justice in Utah for more than 50 years, founded in 1973 and run entirely by volunteers for its first 27 years before hiring its first full-time staff in 2005.
Since then, UHC has launched Utah’s first and now largest affordable housing conference, helped create a unified statewide curriculum through, and led major initiatives in manufactured housing policy and foreclosure prevention through strategic grant funding.
Throughout its history, the Coalition has been on the forefront of advancing state and federal legislation that moves affordable housing forward and protects Utah’s most vulnerable households. Today, UHC convenes over 100 organizational and business members in monthly meetings that power collaboration, learning, and a more equitable housing system statewide.