Special Housing Programs

Utah Housing Corporation offers innovative, affordable housing programs that provide more than just a home for lower income Utahns. UHC has developed programs, that use creative resources to build affordable, quality, new homes that help various levels of lower income households.

CROWN
CROWN (CRedits-to-OWN) is a rental program for tenants who can purchase their home after a fifteen-year rental period. The affordable homes are financed with Low Income Housing Tax Credits allocated by the Corporation. CROWN allows renters who become homeowners to accumulate equity in the home with their monthly rent payments. In 2011, seven new CROWN homes were built across the state in rural communities.

ECHO
ECHO (Educationally Constructed Housing Opportunities) builds new homes using student workforces. The program provides affordable housing opportunities while students learn hands-on skills they can use with future jobs in their personal lives.

REACH
REACH (REhabilition through Affordably Constructed Housing) homes open doors and opportunities to those involved in the program. REACH homes are constructed by prison inmates. This program not only helps lower income households to purchase new affordable homes, but it also teaches inmates new skills that are proven to reduce recidivism.