HERRIMAN, Utah — Governor Spencer Cox held a bill signing ceremony in the fast-growing community of Herriman to call attention to legislation passed this year expanding affordable housing options and homeless services.
"The funding piece is really, really critical," said the governor."Getting that extra money in there for these affordable housing units." "We didn’t tell anybody we were coming because we wanted the actual experience. We made sure we weren’t taking any beds," Gov. Cox told FOX 13 News on Tuesday."No one knew who we were, and we spent an entire night and the next morning and we didn’t get much sleep. We spent most of the night just talking to people who were there. It was incredibly impactful.""One thing it significantly influenced was the need for addiction recovery," he said.
"We’re going pretty big here in trying to address this affordable housing crisis here," said David Damschen, the CEO of the Utah Housing Corporation, which advocates for lower and moderate-income housing.