State and city leaders know the federal cavalry isn’t coming and have built a road map to help elected leaders implement housing solutions in their communities.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox serves as a co-chair of the task force that built the road map and said the state has pulled several levers in an effort to make housing more affordable.
And while the governor said during a webinar Tuesday that Beehive State officials “still haven’t made the kind of dent that we’re hoping for,” one of those levers is featured in the National Housing Crisis Task Force’s State and Local Housing Action Plan .
With federal policy in “near stasis for decades,” as the plan’s executive summary says, states and communities have started coming up with their own solutions. Now, they hope to share ones that are wor