Salt Lake City’s attempt to more evenly spread new affordable housing construction across the city continues to stall.
For two years running, developers have shown little interest in offers by the city’s urban-renewal agency of up on $4.5 million in incentives to build more reasonably priced homes in so-called “high opportunity” east-side neighborhoods. Similar incentives have proved far more popular for projects in the city’s center and west sides.
Limited available land in built-out east-side neighborhoods appears to be a big part of the problem. Yet the City Council, in its role overseeing the city’s Redevelopment Agency (RDA), remains reluctant to shift gears.