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Senate approves revised affordable-housing plan directing state land inventory, rural grants and renter mediation
Summary
The Senate passed a second substitute to S.B. 164 that directs a statewide inventory of surplus state properties for possible affordable-housing use, creates a $500,000 rural predevelopment fund, tightens affordability thresholds and establishes renter mediation; the pilot program was removed.
The Utah Senate on the floor on a voice and roll-call sequence approved a revised affordable-housing measure that aims to direct surplus state land toward lower-income housing, provide rural predevelopment grants and add a renter mediation option.
Senator Anderegg, the bill sponsor, told colleagues the second substitute removes a previously controversial pilot program and instead "sets up an inventory of surplus properties throughout the state" to…
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