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(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A worker at the food pantry at Crossroads Urban Center in Salt Lake City, as seen in June. Utah officials said Friday that federal pandemic emergency assistance with food and rent will both be phased out in March 2023.

Why thousands of low-income Utahns may have even less income in March

By Tony Semerad | February 4, 2023, 5:24 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Talia and Max Walker and other residents along South Salt Lake's Winslow Avenue worry that a proposed rezone and expansion of the Mark Miller Subaru car dealership lot near their homes will encroach and threaten the character of their neighborhood, Feb. 1, 2023.

Why neighbors are fighting a South Salt Lake car dealership’s expansion

By Tony Semerad | February 4, 2023, 3:08 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Numerous mattresses cover the floor where 12 foreign students from Argentina who came to Park City to work on J-1 visas describe their living conditions for the past two months on Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. Because of lack of housing, they have been living in a one-bedroom apartment, paying $12,000 a month in rent.

12 seasonal workers charged $1,000 each to share one Park City 1-bedroom

By Julie Jag | February 3, 2023, 2:59 p.m.

(Kristine Weller | KUER) A University of Utah U permit parking lot off of Mario Capecchi Drive. The lot serves both the U's medical center and the Eccles Broadcast Center and is frequently full, Jan. 27, 2023.

Student housing or parking? These 4 Utah universities approach it differently

By Kristine Weller | KUER 90.1 | February 2, 2023, 4:33 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Robert Gehrke.

You might be paying too much — or too little — in property taxes. Robert Gehrke explains why.

By Robert Gehrke | January 30, 2023, 3:09 p.m.

(Mike Saemisch | Aspen Meadows) Prospective homebuyers at Aspen Meadows at Brian Head Resort can enjoy a day of skiing or snowboarding followed by a gourmet lunch in the ski-in, ski-out development's yurt. Aspen Meadows sits on 2,000 acres adjacent to Brian Head and has plans to add 850 acres and seven chairlifts to the resort, in addition to luxury homes.

Brian Head ski area to balloon in size under new development plan

By Julie Jag | January 25, 2023, 2:55 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall gives her State of the City Address at Woodbine Food Hall on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023.

Read SLC Mayor Erin Mendenhall’s full State of the City address

By The Salt Lake Tribune | January 25, 2023, 2:51 a.m.

(Courtesy of Salt Lake City Planning Department). New accessory dwelling units — like this backyard unit in Salt Lake City — are seen as a way to ease Utah's housing shortage, but they aren't always easy to build.

SLC wants more tiny homes, backyard cottages and granny flats. Here’s how they’ll entice homeowners to build them.

By Tony Semerad | January 23, 2023, 10:53 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall at a September news conference at City Hall on housing and homelessness. “We’re not nibbling at the edges anymore, that is certainly true,” the mayor said of the city's housing initiatives. “I think it’s exciting.”

Exclusive: We talk with SLC Mayor Erin Mendenhall about the housing crisis

By Tony Semerad | January 17, 2023, 9:01 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kim Kanell Nielsen overlooks old store ads alongside her father, Plato Kanell, 95, on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022, as the family business Kanell’s Furniture Source, which has specialized in mid-century modern furniture in Salt Lake City, nears closing.

Salt Lake City mainstay Kanell’s furniture to close, be replaced by apartments after 75 years in business

By Kolbie Peterson | January 15, 2023, 1:00 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) A home for sale in Sandy in November. Economists are predicting a slowdown in Utah's housing markets will stretch well into 2023, due largely to rising mortgage rates.

‘Hang in there,’ Utah real estate agents told. What does that mean for buyers and sellers?

By Tony Semerad | January 14, 2023, 3:05 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Controversy is brewing over a proposed warehouse in an agricultural district in Salt Lake City, with neighbors worrying they'll become another arm of the inland port.

Pushback against Northpoint plan builds as two former SLC mayors, inland port boss raise concerns

By Leia Larsen | Alixel Cabrera | January 13, 2023, 9:55 p.m.

(Giv Development, via Salt Lake City) A rendering of Citizens West, an affordable housing development proposed at 509 W. 300 North in Salt Lake City. It was one of eight projects approved for low-interest loans by the city's Redevelopment Agency.

8 projects, 880 affordable units are coming, with $8M in help from Salt Lake City

By Tony Semerad | January 12, 2023, 1:00 p.m.

(Mark Eddington | The Salt Lake Tribune) Homes in the Green Springs neighborhood in Washington, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022.

Washington County tops chart for growth in luxury second homes market

By Mark Eddington | January 9, 2023, 1:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) An EV charging station at the Utah Department of Environmental Quality in Salt Lake City in October 2022. Salt Lake City may require developers to supply the infrastructure for more charging stations at their apartment and condo complexes.

Why it may get easier to find charging stations in SLC for electric vehicles

By Blake Apgar | January 9, 2023, 5:00 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Sugar House streetcar S-Line on Dec. 23, 2022.

Streetcar through Sugar House and South Salt Lake has spurred up to $2B in economic growth

By Tony Semerad | January 9, 2023, 11:17 p.m.

(Innovation Point Partners, via Point of the Mountain State Land Authority) Rendering of the River to Range feature in Utah's latest development plans for The Point, to be built on the site of the old Utah State Prison in Draper.

The Point’s prison redevelopment is a rare opportunity for housing in Utah. Robert Gehrke says it shouldn’t be squandered.

By Robert Gehrke | December 31, 2022, 1:00 p.m.

(Dwell Design Studio, via Salt Lake City) A rendering of The West Quarter Block C, at roughly 260 W. 200 South, as seen from 200 South. The new phase of construction on Salt Lake City's Block 67 is to include a 321-unit apartment complex and completion of a new mid-block walkway, to be known as Quarter Row.

New apartment tower and retail corridor envisioned at The West Quarter in downtown SLC

By Tony Semerad | December 24, 2022, 1:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Box 500 building, on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022.

Video: Take a look inside Box 500, SLC’s multistory apartments made of shipping containers

By Bethany Baker | Tony Semerad | December 23, 2022, 1:48 p.m.

(Courtesy USDA Rural Development Utah) Jerry Heer stands in front of his Carbon County home in 2014. USDA grants helped pay for repairs to his roof and windows.

Utah’s rural housing gets a boost from USDA grant, but Cox wants more

By Sean Higgins | KUER 90.1 | December 21, 2022, 7:40 p.m.