Ogden apartment complex for low-income residents planned off Wall Ave.
Tim Vandenack, Standard-Examiner
An apartment complex geared to low-income residents and the homeless is in the works at the southeast corner of Ninth Street and Wall Avenue in Ogden, shown here on Tuesday, April 5, 2022.
OGDEN — An apartment complex geared to low-income residents here will be coming to the southeast corner of Ninth Street and Wall Avenue, aiming to boost the housing stock available to the population segment of Ogden.
“This is affordable, transitional housing,” Weber County Commissioner Gage Froerer said.
Weber Housing Authority is the motor behind the complex, and commissioners on Tuesday approved use of $1.9 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds, funneled from the feds to Utah on the project, which has a total price tag of around $12 million. Froerer said the Olene Walker Housing Loan Fund, a state program meant to bolster “quality affordable housing options,” is another likely source of funding.
The apartment complex will contain 48 units and be available at below-market rates to lower-income wage earners and unhoused people, as Froerer described it. There’s a limited amount of affordable housing, and he said the Weber Housing Authority project — which could take two years or more to develop — is “a start” in bolstering the supply.
The two-story structure will sit on 1.76 acres at the southeast corner of Ninth Street and Wall Avenue, where a cluster of vacant homes and undeveloped land currently sit. That’s immediately north of the lot where Home Depot and Big Five are located.
Tim Vandenack, Standard-Examiner
An apartment complex geared to low-income residents and the homeless is in the works at the southeast corner of Ninth Street and Wall Avenue in Ogden, shown here on Tuesday, April 5, 2022.
Commissioner Scott Jenkins said at Tuesday’s Weber County Commission meeting that representatives from a nearby daycare center reached out to him, concerned at the prospect of an apartment complex in their midst.
“I don’t think there’s cause for concern. It’ll be a secure facility. We’ll make sure it’s well-run and managed to avoid any issues,” Andi Beadles, head of Weber Housing Authority, said in response.
Froerer, for his part, sees the complex as a way to prod lower-income Ogden residents toward home ownership. “We want to see more people up that housing ladder,” he said.
Commissioner Jim Harvey called the plans “an exemplary move forward in this area… This is a great move for Weber County.”
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- An apartment complex geared to low-income residents and the homeless is in the works at the southeast corner of Ninth Street and Wall Avenue in Ogden, shown here on Tuesday, April 5, 2022.
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- An apartment complex geared to low-income residents and the homeless is in the works at the southeast corner of Ninth Street and Wall Avenue in Ogden, shown here on Tuesday, April 5, 2022.