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Utah minority homeownership outpaces most national averages but racial gap remains
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SALT LAKE CITY — Most Utahns of colour usually tend to personal a house than people from comparable ethnic and racial backgrounds within the nation.
However homeownership charges amongst minority populations nonetheless lag behind the speed of Utah’s white inhabitants — notably among the many Black neighborhood, which has the bottom homeownership fee in Utah, by far, and is the one racial or ethnic group within the state to fall beneath nationwide homeownership charges.
That disparity interprets to Utah having the nation’s Twelfth-largest racial homeownership hole — outlined because the distinction between the white homeownership fee and that of the racial group with the bottom fee. Whereas 73% of white Utahns stay in a house they personal, solely 30.9% of Black Utahns do.
In the meantime, 65.9% of Utah Asians stay in a house they personal, as do 58% of multiracial Utahns, 57.7% of American Indians, 57.5% of Hispanics and 54.6% of Pacific Islanders.
James Wooden, a senior fellow on the College of Utah Kem C. Gardner Coverage Institute, has many years of expertise researching Utah housing. He mentioned the homeownership fee hole between white Utahns and Utahns of colour is probably going associated to quite a lot of elements starting from historic insurance policies, like redlining to modern inequities in well being care and training. Redlining is a discriminatory follow of denying companies like mortgages and insurance coverage loans to residents in sure areas based mostly on their race or ethnicity.
“It is in all probability associated to academic attainment, the neighborhood they grew up in, the earnings of their dad and mom and their family,” Wooden mentioned. “It is all of these elements mix to find out the place a family is, presently. It’s a must to hint a few generations and see the place they have been deprived.”
Wooden’s analysis of 2010 U.S. Census information discovered that Salt Lake County neighborhoods with increased concentrations of minority households usually coincided with meals deserts, much less entry to public transportation and underprivileged faculties.
“They’re deprived, there’s simply little question about it,” he mentioned. “It makes a giant distinction what your zip code is, as folks say. It makes a giant distinction by way of proximity to employment and transportation, housing, training — all that stuff. If you cannot get out of that and also you’re in that for a technology, it takes appreciable extra effort, I feel, for somebody to interrupt out of that cycle and people neighborhoods than for these of us who get raised right here in Salt Lake, say on the east facet and simply sort of float together with inexperienced lights more often than not.”
Closing the homeownership hole between white and minority populations, Wooden mentioned, would require insurance policies concentrating on issues like inexpensive housing and training, well being care and public transportation in deprived, low-income neighborhoods. He pointed to a current Colorado referendum that earmarks $300 million yearly for inexpensive housing for instance.
“That is the form of effort you could actually make a distinction,” Wooden mentioned. “We work across the edges and that is why all people’s been doing this for a very long time and nibbling on the edges of this inexpensive housing subject. You get a 12-plex right here, some new condos there which might be inexpensive, however while you do one thing like that — and earmark ($200 million) a 12 months ongoing for inexpensive housing — it is an absolute game-changer and would have an effect on the housing hole.”
Solo Tuiaki, a Tongan American realtor who grew up on Salt Lake Metropolis’s west facet, has discovered his area of interest working with first-time homebuyers from marginalized communities. He mentioned there’s usually a data hole amongst communities of colour concerning the homebuying course of and that it needs to be as much as consultants to search out methods to satisfy communities the place they’re and break down the method in a method that is accessible.
“It is positively not a traditional dialog on the dinner desk for minorities,” Tuiaki mentioned. “These are conversations that I am having with minority {couples} or adults that I am serving to. It is loopy to me as a result of a few of them are 10-20 years older than me, nevertheless it’s nonetheless virtually like a overseas language to them once I discuss credit-building and I discuss different choices that they probably may have taken had they recognized different routes. But it surely’s simply because we aren’t as educated or we aren’t asking the questions that must be requested to get us to changing into a home-owner.”
Tuiaki added {that a} lack of know-how may result in mistrust, as households fear about being scammed on such an costly funding. He mentioned lots of his purchasers really feel extra comfy working with a realtor from an identical background as themselves.
“It isn’t that anybody is racist, it is simply that there is a comfortability stage of like, do I do know you on a private stage? Do I do know the kind of character you might have? Do I do know the folks you affiliate your self with? Do I do know the household you come from?” Tuiaki mentioned. “I might say it is a barrier for minorities to need to buy a house as a result of — language is all the time going to be a barrier — nevertheless it’s positively laborious to search out that connection on the enterprise facet of issues.”
Adjustments over time
Breaking into homeownership can appear unattainable for a lot of within the midst of Utah’s present housing disaster. However Tuiaki hopes a few of these obstacles will likely be damaged as extra folks of colour get entangled in the true property trade and are capable of construct connections for communities of colour. He inspired folks to take a leap of religion; and, at the very least, take step one of sitting down with an professional to search out out what it takes to purchase a house.
“I’ve had purchasers previously that simply felt so insufficient of being a home-owner as a result of they thought it is by no means going to be within the image, that it’s important to have $100,000 to have the ability to purchase a home, have a 700 credit score rating and be together with your job for at the very least 10 years — lots of these myths that are not true when buying a home,” he mentioned.
Wooden mentioned that though youthful generations are being priced out of homeownership, there are some encouraging developments. In truth, Native American, Pacific Islander, multiracial and Hispanic populations have seen important will increase in homeownership charges throughout the previous decade.
“We’ll have much less homeownership over time, whether or not it is white or no matter racial group — simply due to the price of housing,” he mentioned. “However regardless of what we went by way of with the pandemic and likewise the housing growth within the 2010s, we’ve homeownership charges have truly improved for 3 racial teams. To me, that is encouraging and shocking that, for instance, Pacific Islanders usually tend to personal a house now than they had been 10 or 11 years in the past and that their homeownership fee is effectively above the nationwide common.”
He added it is also encouraging to see native lawmakers get entangled in housing, pointing to the passage of SB240, which created Utah’s First-Time Homebuyer Help Program. Beneath this system, new homebuyers with low and average incomes are eligible for a mortgage — for as much as $20,000, to be paid again when the home is offered or refinanced.
“That is the primary in a while the place the Legislature has gotten concerned within the subject of housing,” Wooden mentioned. “We’re transferring in the appropriate route. For a very long time it was simply stasis, nothing occurred.”
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WEST JORDAN, Utah — The Utah National Guard has been serving the state since 1894 with roots dating back to the Minutemen of the 17th-century American colonies.
This weekend, they received quite the boost in the form of the Army’s most advanced attack helicopter.
“These aircraft are extremely fast compared to our other aircraft,” said Col. Patrick.
On Saturday, the Utah National Guard took their new Apache helicopters for a spin.
“The flight went better than we could have hoped for. A little weather on the east coast, but after that, it wasn’t bad at all,” Patrick said.
The first four of 24 Apaches arrived early Saturday morning after they went under full inspection.
“They’ve got software on there that it’s like playing a video game. You just fly the video game and the airplane… is fast and smooth, which is the good thing, and so it’ll just hold the altitude and airspeed and just keep on trucking along. It’s pretty good,” Patrick said.
The first Apache helicopters arrived in Utah back in 1992.
“It just continues the legacy of the air pirates and what we bring to not only Utah, but really to the global fight and security, really,” Patrick added.
The colonel calls it a major step forward.
“What a great day for Utah as we advance into the next couple decades of combat operations and what we can provide to, you know, the global security.”
The depth continues to be tested as the bodies keep dropping out of the lineup up front. Tonight, a resilient Maple Leafs team is seeking its fourth consecutive win as Alex Nylander debuts on an all-Marlies line against a tired 8-9-2 Utah Hockey Club (7:00 p.m. EST, TSN4).
Head-to-Head Stats: Maple Leafs vs. Utah
In the 2024-25 regular season statistics, Utah holds the advantage in three out of five offensive categories and three out of five defensive categories.
Game Day Quotes
Craig Berube on what he learned from the pre-scout of Utah’s 6-1 win over Pittsburgh last night:
The power play was good. They got three. They’re fast, and they have a lot of skill. They make a lot of plays — a lot of west-west plays — and get up the ice really well. Their D are involved.
We have to check well tonight. We have to stay out of the penalty box. Our PK is going to be important.
Overall, we need to take time and space away from this team right out of the offensive zone. Be hard on them breaking plays up. That will be very important tonight.
Berube on the decision to start Joseph Woll over Anthony Stolarz tonight:
[Woll] had a really good game against Vegas. We are just thinking ahead here. Stolly has played a lot. We have some time here. He is working in practice and doing a lot of good things.
That’s really it. We just talk about things and make decisions on what we think is best for the goalies and the team.
I talked earlier about how both goalies are going to see more net than they have in the past. It is important that we manage it to the best of our abilities.
Woll is coming off a real solid game against a real good team. We wanted to go back with him.
Berube on what improvements he is looking for from his team offensively after a week of practice:
Attacking more than we are. There are times when we tend to just control the play a little bit too much on the outside. We could attack more with more shots to the net, get pucks low to high, and do more on-and-off shooting while getting people to the net with numbers around there.
Resets to the back of the net, making quick plays out of there, doing things a little bit quicker, moving it quicker, supporting it quicker, and getting more pucks to the net than we are.
Berube on why Fraser Minten is so trustworthy despite his lack of experience:
It goes back to a great draft pick, finding a player who is so responsible at a young age. You guys aren’t on the bench, but just hearing him talk on the bench and how he sees the game, he says all the right things.
You don’t see young guys do that very often. He is already doing it at a very young age with very little experience. It is great to see. It’s refreshing. It really is.
Minten on the keys to success for his line with Nikita Grebenkin and Alex Nylander:
We just have to be simple with pucks and forecheck, using our speed to get pucks back on the forecheck. From there, let the skill make things happen. Those guys are really good when they get it back, so we have to make sure we are forechecking hard to retrieve pucks, and we’ll go from there.
Minten on the keys to success in the net-front role on the top power-play unit:
Try not to overcomplicate it too much. Get the goalie’s eyes, get in sight lines, try to get pucks back, get some tips, get some screens, and cause a little chaos. You can draw a defender with you. If you’re going backdoor, you give them a little more space. Be ready for anything coming to you. They are great players, so just try to read off of them, and hopefully, it goes well.
Minten on his experience level in front of the net on the power play:
In junior, I was mostly a flank guy with the puck more, but last year, I kind of got into it more at the end of the year, and I have been playing that role with the Marlies every game so far this year.
Minten on Morgan Rielly’s guidance at the NHL level:
He has been amazing. We have a lot in common, being from the same place. He took me under his wing a little bit and has been super nice. It makes it easy when you are coming in at 18 or 19 and there is a guy who comes to talk to you and is a really nice, supportive guy and friend. He has been awesome.
Toronto Maple Leafs Projected Lines
Forwards
#74 Bobby McMann — #91 John Tavares — #16 Mitch Marner
#89 Nick Robertson— #29 Pontus Holmberg — #88 William Nylander
#71 Nikita Grebenkin — #39 Fraser Minten — #92 Alex Nylander
#46 Alex Steeves — #24 Connor Dewar — #18 Steven Lorentz
Defensemen
#22 Jake McCabe — #8 Chris Tanev
#44 Morgan Rielly — #95 Oliver Ekman-Larsson
#2 Simon Benoit — #25 Conor Timmins
Goaltenders
Starter: #60 Joseph Woll
#41 Anthony Stolarz
Extras: Jani Hakanpää, Philippe Myers
Suspended: Ryan Reaves (four games remaining)
Injured (IR): Auston Matthews, Max Domi, Matthew Knies
Injured (LTIR): Calle Jarnkrok, Dakota Mermis, Max Pacioretty, David Kampf
Utah Hockey Club Projected Lines
Forwards
#9 Clayton Keller — #27 Barrett Hayton — #8 Nick Schmaltz
#22 Jack McBain — #92 Logan Cooley — #11 Dylan Guenther
#63 Matias Maccelli — #17 Nick Bjugstad — #67 Lawson Course
#15 Alex Kerfoot — #82 Kevin Stenlund — #53 Michael Carcone
Defensemen
#98 Mikhail Sergachev — #2 Olli Maata
#28 Ian Cole — #10 Maveric Lamoureux
#7 Michael Kesselring — #41 Robert Bortuzzo
Goaltenders
Starter: #70 Karel Vejmelka
Jayson Stauber
Injured: Sean Durzi, John Marino, Connor Ingram
Welcome to the NHL On Tap, a daily look at the games on the NHL schedule. There is one game on the schedule for Sunday, which will be televised nationally in the United States and Canada.
Game of the day
Utah Hockey Club at Toronto Maple Leafs (7 p.m. ET; TVAS, TSN4, NHLN, Utah16)
Mitch Marner, William Nylander and John Tavares have all stepped up for the Maple Leafs (12-6-2) in the absence of captain Auston Matthews and look to continue the trend against Utah (8-9-3) at Scotiabank Arena. Marner has 12 points (four goals, eight assists), Nylander nine points (four goals, five assists) and Tavares eight points (four goals, four assists) in the seven games without Matthews, who is out with an upper-body injury. Toronto has won three in a row and is 6-1-0 without Matthews, who skated prior to practice Saturday and said he could return from an upper-body injury this upcoming week. Marner leads Toronto with 26 points (six goals, 20 assists) in 20 games and has points in six of the seven games Matthews has missed. Maple Leafs goalie Joseph Wall made 31 saves in a 3-0 win against the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday for his first shutout of the season and second in the NHL. Utah is playing the second game of a back-to-back for the first time in team history and will look to build on a 6-1 win at the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday. Dylan Guenther had two goals and an assist, and Clayton Keller had three assists, helping Utah end a three-game losing streak. Goalie Jaxson Stauber could make his Utah debut after being recalled from Tucson of the American Hockey League on Wednesday; the 25-year-old has not played an NHL game since Feb. 22, 2023, with the Chicago Blackhawks. No. 1 goalie Connor Ingram has missed the past two games with an upper-body injury.
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