Affordable housing series sparks new civic partnership

After The Salt Lake Tribune’s series on affordable housing, the newsroom built a working relationship with the Utah Housing Corporation (UHC), which is the state of Utah’s housing finance agency. The UHC originally reached out to The Tribune after this solutions story on housing in Millcreek was published. The Tribune will collaborate with the UHC on a new story updating people on the down payment assistance program for first-time homebuyers. Megan Banta, the data enterprise reporter at the Tribune, says, “I do think solutions journalism helped make the reporting process easier, especially when it came to talking to developers who often catch a lot of flak for the housing crisis.”