Utah Housing Corporation offers innovative, affordable housing programs that provide more than just a home for lower income Utahns. UHC has developed several programs, including those below, 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 allow renters who become homeowners to accumulate equity in the home with their monthly rent payments. In 2009, thirteen new CROWN homes were built across the state in rural and urban communities.

ECHO

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

REACH

REACH (REhabilitated through Affordably Constructed Housing) homes open doors and opportunities to those involved in the program. Prison inmates pay tuition to receive a two-year college degree while learning to design and construct homes. REACH modular homes are built on prison grounds and then transported to their foundation. 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.