Category Archives: Housing
State and Local Governments Must Further Address Housing Affordability
Utah has become an increasingly desirable place to relocate, especially among those stuck quarantined in coastal states with the highest cost of living in the country.
We have to do something about Utah’s housing crisis
As I anticipate graduating with my bachelor’s degree from Utah State University in the spring, I am especially worried about the worsening housing affordability crisis that Utah finds itself in.
What the Wasatch Front needs is more basement apartments
A lot of people want to move here, but there aren’t enough places for them to live.
Cities Don’t Need High-Rises to Become Affordable
“Density” is a word only an urban planner could love. To normal people it’s a synonym for “crowded.”
What’s Keeping Utah’s Real Estate Market Hot in the Time of COVID?
The recent global health pandemic has shaken the foundation
of our everyday lives and likely forced cultural shifts that will
stay with us for a long time. Every part of the economy has been
impacted to different degrees. While the economy fell into a
record recession and experienced all-time high unemployment,
Utah’s construction industry set a record for the first six months
of the year.
Zoning Reform Is Not Leftism
To characterize proposals for zoning reform as “leftist” is incorrect. It is true that a number of Democratic candidates and progressive organizations have embraced some of these proposals. Yet it remains the case that for most of American history, from the time of colonial settlements to the heyday of the robber barons, American neighborhoods grew in response to markets, not zoning.
Missing Middle Housing: Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today’s Housing Crisis
By Dan Parolek As Published on Planetizen It is critical for jurisdictions in cities large and small and contexts rural and urban to understand how to enable Missing Middle Housing to meet their housing needs. To effectively deliver Missing Middle Housing, the conventional approach of creating plans, zoning, policies, and strategies to deliver housing must […]
Zoning Reform – English Style
Housing affordability and land use regulation are issues not only all across America, but also across the “pond.”
A Conversation with Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted
A Conversation with Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted Students and faculty in the City & Metropolitan Planning Department at the University of Utah recently read and discussed the 2016 New York Times bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond. Following this discussion in […]
3 Stories Show the Flip Side Of Zoning Reform
Wilf Sommerkorn discusses housing affordability and the push for zoning reform.
The Politics of Housing Affordability
Housing affordability and “reform” of local land use continues to be on political agendas with its apparent, but uncertain impacts on future urban growth
Zoning, Affordability, and COVID-19
Governments have undertaken moves to ban or severely restrict the use of exclusive single-family zoning
