Read the Phase One Summary Report

The report summarizes what we heard and learned from the hundreds of hours of community engagement and input as well as the cutting edge data analysis by the Urban Displacement Project on displacement risks in Salt Lake City and the region. This critical information helps us to understand, fully, the problem we are striving to solve, because it’s hard to solve a problem if you don’t agree on what the problem is.

Read the Report

Key Takeaways

The results of Phase One are a call to action, documenting the extent of displacement in the city and region as well as the impacts on people’s lives and our community. Here are a few of the key findings:

Displacement in Salt Lake City is significant and getting worse. It is an issue of high concern in the community; nearly everyone reported directly experiencing its impacts in their lives and neighborhoods.
There are no “more affordable” neighborhoods in Salt Lake City where lower income families can move once displaced. This is a particularly striking finding; something that UDP has not seen before in their work around the country.
Salt Lake City is growing and there are not enough housing units at every price level, and a significant lack of affordable units for low-income families. There is a consensus view in the community that creating more affordable housing should be a high priority while also protecting renters from being displaced.
Almost half of Salt Lake City’s renter households are rent burdened, spending over 30 percent of their income on housing, making them highly vulnerable when rents increase.
Displacement affects more than half of White households in Salt Lake City and disproportionately affects households of color.
The patterns of displacement reflect historic patterns of discrimination and segregation, with many areas experiencing high displacement risk being the same as areas that were redlined in the past.