Affordable Housing That Works for Local Communities

Housing is one of the biggest challenges facing District 20.

But housing doesn’t exist on its own — it’s directly connected to water, transportation, and infrastructure.

When those systems aren’t aligned, housing becomes more expensive, harder to build, and harder to sustain.

Different Regions, Same Problem

The Wasatch Back and the Uintah Basin face different pressures, but the core issue is the same: housing is moving faster than infrastructure.

• Wasatch Back: rapid growth, rising home prices, workforce displacement
• Uintah Basin: workforce housing needs tied to energy and industry cycles

Different conditions — same underlying problem: disconnected planning.

Why Housing Gets Expensive

Housing costs rise when infrastructure isn’t planned alongside development.

• Water systems aren’t aligned with growth
• Transportation bottlenecks limit where people can realistically live
• Communities are forced to react instead of plan ahead

You can’t solve a housing problem without solving the systems around it.

What Works

• Aligning housing with water availability and long-term planning
• Transportation systems that connect people to jobs and services
• Local decision-making with clear, predictable state guardrails
• Infrastructure-first planning before large-scale growth

This approach doesn’t stop growth — it makes growth sustainable.

Why It Matters

Housing affects everyday life:

• Whether families can afford to stay in their communities
• Whether workers can live near their jobs
• Whether communities grow in a stable, predictable way

When housing is disconnected from infrastructure, families pay the price.

Housing, water, and transportation are one system. Planning them together is how we keep communities strong.