Bonding for affordable housing programs gets nod from Utah House panel

SALT LAKE CITY — A bill sponsored by House Minority Whip Joel Briscoe, D-Salt Lake City, that would establish a fund of up to $100 million for affordable housing projects passed a House committee late Friday.HB464 authorizes the issuance of bonds whose proceeds would be put into the Economic and Revitalization and Investment Fund to be spent on affordable and transitional housing projects around the state.A housing board created by the Olene Walker Housing Loan Fund will administer the mon