Utah’s capital is now majority renter, according to the findings, and upward of half of them are severely cost-burdened, spending as much as half or more of their incomes on housing costs.
That’s also given some on the City Council a sense of urgency in crafting and enacting Thriving in Place to begin stabilizing the city’s nearly 200,000 residents in their homes and slowing displacement.Added council colleague Chris Wharton: “I feel like we’re already behind.
People protest the possible eviction of renters at 379 E 1st Ave in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020. “That is a small drop in the bucket,” she said, “when we’re considering the trauma and the lifelong experience that somebody has even for a brief spell of homelessness.” Thriving in Place also addresses the major and longstanding city priority of fixing its current approach to reducing housing loss in the face of new development, which most officials agree doesn’t work.