Housing and Urban Development

More people are being displaced from Salt Lake’s westside as developers come in and build luxury apartment buildings, but the people who left say it’s only gotten harder to live elsewhere.

Gov. Spencer Cox said the answer to affordable housing is building more units.

Finding affordable housing in Salt Lake County is generally hard, but being homeless while working is a reality for many Utahns who can’t afford to live in the valley.

Despite the coronavirus pandemic causing record unemployment and plunging most of the economy into a recession, housing is still a booming business in Utah. Construction has become the fastest-growing major industry in the state — and one of only three that saw any job growth at all during the pandemic. The increase is largely due to high housing demand amid an ongoing shortage and record-low interest rates.

For decades, Mario and Emma Melendez have lived and worked in Salt Lake City. Originally from the Mexican state of Tlaxcala, east of Mexico City, they…

The number of people who were experiencing homelessness in Utah ticked up slightly from the previous year, though still below where it stood more than a…