Housing

A Cache Valley nonprofit is exploring the idea of creating a year-round resource center for those experiencing homelessness. Many residents support the idea, but funding is limited.

In other news, a report found that Utahns working minimum wage would need to work 156 hours a week to afford the median rent of an apartment on their own.

An amendment introduced late in the evening includes over 10,000 acres in Utah and identifies nearly 450,000 acres in four Nevada counties for sale or exchange.

Utah tenants who stay in an apartment after being evicted must pay three times the daily rent. The Legislature voted to keep it that way.

Across rural Utah, hundreds have become homeowners by banding together with future neighbors to put up their own houses.

A transgender Utah State University student is facing harassment after a mother’s social media post criticized her placement as a resident assistant in a women’s dorm.

In other news, Salt Lake City was ranked one of the nation's hottest housing markets. And, a magnitude 3.4 earthquake shook a remote area of southern Utah Tuesday morning.

As temperatures plunge in one of Utah’s coldest counties, a warming center is seeing record numbers of people needing shelter, and is urgently seeking more volunteers to help.

In other news, a new beef processing facility has opened in Juab County. And a Ogden-based development group's has been denied their proposal for a incorporated resort community by the Utah Lieutenant Governor's office.

At an event hosted by the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, panelists explained how more innovative housing designs could help lower costs for homebuyers.