During the current housing chaos, the challenge for many Utahns isn’t just mushrooming mortgages and rising rents — it’s lagging wages.
hasn’t necessarily changed that dynamic. Securing employment that will pay enough to keep up with unpredictable rent hikes remains tricky. Frodsham spent two years searching for a higher-paying job before landing at a technology startup at $40 an hour.
“It’s not just for low-income housing,” Waldrip said. “This is for moderate-income housing, market-rate housing. All of those things should have that same baseline metric so we’re not creating house-poor households, where you’re putting them on the ledge, where they can’t afford to save or buy food.”, assistant executive director of the Utah Housing Coalition, calls Waldrip’s analysis that no one should pay more than 30% of their income on housing “the golden rule.
Since each city has a different cost of living, couldn’t Salt Lake City, for example, like some U.S.municipalities, set its own minimum wage to help residents more readily cover those housing costs?In 2001, for instance, the GOP-dominated Legislature banned city leaders from requiring their contractors to pay anything above the federal minimum wage, which was $5.15 an hour at the time.
Preemptive state wage laws — which prevent cities from mandating pay on their own — “thwart action by local governments” to address the needs of their residents, said Mustafa Hussein, assistant professor of health economics and policy at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health. Last year, Collard sponsored a bill that would have lifted Utah’s minimum wage in yearly phases, elevating it to $15 by 2026. The measure died in its first public committee hearing.
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