SLC is seeing widespread gentrification that has all but erased affordable neighborhoods citywide, leaving renters with little alternative but to move elsewhere.
Community members are speaking up, too, often with a sharpening sense of exclusion, distrust in government and a loss of power. Those affected point to a dire shortage of affordable housing as the main cause and their prevailing perception, according to new research, is that wealthier newcomers are squeezing them out.
Gentrification and patterns of displacement now prevail in almost every corner of Utah’s capital — and the trends are rapidly getting worse, according to a new in-depth study called ““Every single area in Salt Lake City, unfortunately, that is affordable is experiencing displacement,” said Tim Thomas, with the, based at the University of California, Berkeley, who is among the study’s authors. “That means when low-income households are displaced, there’s nowhere for them to go.
Households earning 50% to 80% of area median incomes are also getting pushed out, especially in places such as Ballpark, Central City, east of Liberty Park, pockets of downtown and even swaths of the city’s more affluent east bench along Wasatch Drive and Foothill Boulevard. Older apartment buildings are shadowed by new multi-unit high rise apartments on the downtown city skyline, Tuesday, July 12, 2022.
Under Mayor Erin Mendenhall, the city has a stated goal of keeping existing residents in place as much as possible and letting them enjoy the positive effects of an upswing in investment and housing construction in the city. “We’re losing diversity as a result of displacement,” Driskell said. “It’s impacting a lot of people in many areas of the city, not in just one or two neighborhoods.”Not everyone believes gentrification is all negative, with 11% of residents saying it makes their community better. While the toughest effects fall on renters, many homeowners told researchers it wasn’t affecting them, though many worried for the next generation.
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