What is "affordable single family housing" these days?

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Mar 21, 2023
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POLL: Would you live in Utah if it meant you had to live in an apartment?

stenso

3/20/23 11:57pm

Too many variables. Family size & ages of children & apt size/location.

Soupie

3/20/23 11:59pm

The reason I ask is because this appears to be the future of Utah.

stenso

3/21/23 12:11am

Water is scarce, so they want to cram more people into the same footprint?

Division Bell

3/21/23 12:19am

I was just thinking the same thing. 😂

TADOW

3/21/23 8:23am

People aren't the water problem. It's the landscaping.

TailgateU

3/22/23 1:22am

You are 100% correct and if we’d stop electing land developers, we could stop it

YbeatsU

3/21/23 12:21am

Utah legislature confuses conflict of interest with expertise.

Soupie

3/21/23 12:30am

What happens when you create so much single family housing that you run out of

Jay Kay

3/21/23 12:35am

We have the entire I-15 corridor to keep building. Young people would rather

YbeatsU

3/21/23 12:40am

Maybe so. Massive sprawls would cause its own issues though

Jay Kay

3/21/23 12:51am

Yeah, there's real problems with sprawl

fattycoug

3/21/23 8:21am

Says who?

conetah

3/21/23 6:02am

I would rather live a little farther away to have a good family home than live

Powerbait DPM

3/21/23 1:11pm

10 minutes is not the trade off

BYU'01

3/21/23 7:52pm

Lots of young adults prefer location over a yard to maintain. Developers build

BYU'01

3/21/23 7:45pm

No they don’t. I had one of the largest builders in the State in my office tell

YbeatsU

3/21/23 9:19pm

i mean, to get a good ROI, don't you have to, you know, SELL the properties

fattycoug

3/21/23 9:29pm

Sure. And cities don’t have to change zoning to allow multi family housing.

YbeatsU

3/21/23 9:36pm

sounds like YOU prefer SFH but large amounts of people prefer MFH

fattycoug

3/22/23 6:36am

$350K. That is what young people are having to pay for an attached townhome

YbeatsU

3/22/23 8:58am

Is ROI is 4x greater because the demand far exceeds the supply

BYU'01

3/21/23 9:50pm

Or they make more money jamming people in tight spaces.

YbeatsU

3/21/23 9:56pm

Right, a lot more people prefer the price point of multi unit housing like

BYU'01

3/21/23 10:01pm

Too bad there are people like that can stop you.

YbeatsU

3/21/23 10:08pm

So the few land developers in the St legislature don’t reign supreme. It’s NIMBY

BYU'01

3/21/23 10:11pm

It needs to have both concepts.

conetah

3/21/23 6:01am

Build affordable family housing? That's the idea... that's a condo

runnincoug

3/21/23 6:53am

This opinion is terribly misinformed

MyTwoCents

3/21/23 8:01am

Yeah your talking points are literally Development 101. Cities in the State have

YbeatsU

3/21/23 9:22pm

"You just want people to live in high density housing." You're weird

fattycoug

3/22/23 6:40am

You’re fat. SFH’s are unaffordable because small affordable ones aren’t being

YbeatsU

3/22/23 9:00am

What is "affordable single family housing" these days?

fattycoug

3/21/23 8:22am

Yes, that was our first home when my wife and I got married.

JohnnyC

3/21/23 5:28am

Don't most people live in an apartment at some point in their lives?

John Doe

3/21/23 6:32am

Not sure I would live in Utah in a house or an apartment. There are better

Acorn

3/21/23 7:55am

We’re here til kids grow up. Then we are gone…probably back to the Southeast.

DwigtA2RM

3/21/23 8:36am

Utah needs more apartments.It also needs more single family homes. We should build and build. The more units the better.

HarlemCoug

3/21/23 4:59pm

What happens when we run out of water? Recycle urine?

John Doe

3/21/23 5:05pm

We'll just build more infrastructure to capture more precipitation and we'll also find better ways to consume less. I

HarlemCoug

3/21/23 5:08pm

I guess we could always run a pipeline from Lake Tahoe.

John Doe

3/21/23 5:36pm

Residential water use is less than 10% of the total water use in Utah. People

Mot

3/22/23 11:49pm

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