KEY TAKEAWAYS

Utah families face high mortgage rates and $520,000 median home prices.

Multi-generational housing is growing, with 5% of Utah households adopting it.

Nationwide, 17% of homes sold are multi-generational, aiding affordability challenges.

WEST JORDAN — With mortgage rates above 6% and the median home price in Utah around $520,000, house hunting can be discouraging.

But more families are looking at one specific way to try to make it work. It's called multi-generational housing.

"It's not a major market," said Dejan Eskic, housing analyst at the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah, "but it's definitely growing."

One family's story

In the far western part of West Jordan, against the Oquirrh Mountains, there's a new community called Terraine.

It's a

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