Salt Lake City has no more affordable tracts. Here's how the city may respond

"This is a community-driven plan to understand displacement and develop a plan of action," Price said, speaking to the council. " is a roadmap that will serve as a foundation for you as you're making policy decisions around housing in the coming years."Salt Lake City's "Thriving in Place" plan began in 2021 after funding the previous year. Its first phase captured data and public sentiment to underscore the impact of housing displacement on residents.

. It lists six goals of the project, from protecting tenants from replacement, to advocating for residents at a statewide level, and recommends 22 policies that Price said can potentially help increase housing stock and prevent low-income residents from being priced out of their homes.Developing a tenant relocation assistance program, helping tenants find ways to become homeowners and promoting affordable living and better jobs.

Adopting an affordable housing incentives policy, finding ways to make accessory dwelling units easier and cheaper to build and utilize publicly owned property. "Displacement is happening now and many of the fixes are going to take years for us to achieve," she said. "There are no magic fixes and our success is going to be incremental."

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