Utah may be 235k homes short in 30 years. So lawmakers look to consolidate a ‘labyrinth’ of housing efforts.
| The Salt Lake Tribune | October 20, 2025 | Megan Banta |
“Utah could be more than 200,000 homes short of demand in 30 years unless policymakers and lawmakers address a “labyrinth” of state housing and development policy.
“This is not prescriptive,” said Kamron Dalton, the managing director of operations at the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity. “It is where we are headed if we do not change anything.”
Dalton, along with Jason Brown, the CEO of Envision Utah, presented a new housing report to an interim legislative committee on Wednesday. The GOEO and Envision Utah authored the report.”
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Natural disasters are affecting the nation’s food supply
| Deseret News | October 17, 2025 | Amy Joi O'Donoghue |
“Envision Utah in partnership with Utah Water Ways, the Utah Division of Water Resources and the Office of the Great Salt Lake Commissioner conducted a survey this year which showed more than half the people in Utah do not believe there will be enough water to meet the needs of users 20 years from now.
“I think what we see there is people recognizing that we’re in a desert state and that water does seem to vary from our water levels in our communities and in the mountains and lakes and our snowpack,” said Jason Brown, executive vice president of communications and education at Envision Utah at the time.”
Think housing costs are high? Study shows Utah could fall well short of demand by 2055
| KSL-TV| October 15, 2025 | Bridger Beal-Cvetko and Daniel Woodruff |
“Utah is on track to fall significantly short of the number of homes needed to meet market demand over the next 30 years, analysts told lawmakers on Wednesday.
During a meeting of the Economic Development and Workforce Services Interim Committee, representatives from Envision Utah and the Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity presented a Legislature-funded study painting a sobering picture of the state's housing market.
Specifically, the study found that Utah needs to build 842,515 new homes over the next three decades to meet expected demand. But the state is projected to have a shortage of 235,000 homes, meeting only about 72% of that projected demand by 2055, according to Jason Brown, CEO of Envision Utah.”
USU UWLP releases research on Utah college students’ views on teaching as a career
| Cache Valley Daily | September 18, 2025 | Emmalee Chastain and Julene Reese |
“The Utah Women & Leadership Project (UWLP) at Utah State University recently published a research report,“What Utah College Students Think about Teaching as a Career: An Analysis by Gender.” Using data collected by Envision Utah, a nonprofit that engages Utahns in collaborative, bottom-up decision making, the report explores the perceptions of Utah college students as they consider and prepare for careers. The findings offer important insights about the pipeline of teachers and provide recommendations for attracting and retaining the best educators for Utah’s classrooms.
Challenges Teachers Face in Utah: Utah teachers earn an average of $69,161 (18th nationally), yet the state has the highest teacher/student ratio in the U.S. – 1:22.2 compared to 1:15.4 – and ranks 49th in per-student spending. Data indicate that 84% of new Utah teachers return for a second year, but only 61% make it to five years…”