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Salt Lake City to expand affordable housing: tiny homes, dashboard and $5M budget ask

Salt Lake City Mayor's Office · January 29, 2025
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Summary

Mayor Erin Mendenhall announced an accelerated push on affordable housing including a tiny-homes village expansion (200 homes target), a new public dashboard to track construction and preservation, and a $5 million request in her upcoming budget for deeply affordable housing.

Mayor Erin Mendenhall used the 2025 State of the City address to lay out a multi-part housing push that combines new construction, transparency tools and direct tenant support.

Mendenhall said Salt Lake City faces a shortage of more than 18,000 affordable housing units. She reported counts of housing completed or funded since 2020: 524 deeply affordable units, 684 family-sized affordable units and 119 for-sale or shared-equity…

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