Over the past two months, the city council has heard from experts on a variety of housing-related items — from national and local trends, the city’s Community and Economic Development Department’s philosophy on housing and how other communities in the United States have addressed the affordable housing crisis.
The council also received housing reports from the Ogden Civic Action Network and Utah Foundation, along with an overview of the Ogden Moderate Income Housing Report.
Cameron Diehl, executive director of the Utah League of Cities and Towns, gave a presentation on how Ogden’s housing situation fares compared to other cities in Utah. During his presentation, Diehl said Ogden has almost 30,000 total housing units, with 45 percent of those being rentals. Diehl third of those rental households, or more than 4,500, are considered “extremely low income” housing, where occupants are making less than 30 percent of the AMI. And there’s still a need inside the region for more low income housing stock, Diehl said.
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