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2025 Regional Solutions: Finding Middle Housing

In communities across Salt Lake County and beyond, housing demand continues to grow while options remain limited. This year's Regional Solutions event will focus on Finding Middle Housing — practical, house-scale buildings like duplexes, fourplexes, cottage courts, and multiplexes that fit into neighborhoods and help people live closer to jobs, shops, and transit.

Join planners, local government staff, and national expert Daniel Parolek, who coined the term Missing Middle Housing, for a day focused on real market trends and practical steps local leaders can take to make these housing types possible in our communities.

Event Details

Date: October 29, 2025
Location: Viridian Event Center, 8030 S. 1825 W., West Jordan

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Why This Matters

A large brick building with a lawn and trees in front of it.

Salt Lake County and communities nationwide are facing a shortage of diverse housing choices. Missing Middle Housing types were common before the 1940s but have since become nearly impossible to build in many places due to outdated zoning rules and market barriers.

This event will build on our 2021 Missing Middle Housing conversation, but will go deeper, with a focus on how market forces shape what actually gets built and what cities can do to close the housing gap. Attendees will leave with practical tools, real examples, and local connections to help put ideas into action.

Bringing Middle Housing to Life

At this year’s event, we’ll dive into practical tools and examples to help your community expand housing choices and create walkable, vibrant neighborhoods. Topics will include:

  • How Middle Housing types can help meet changing housing needs.
  • Why these buildings are “missing” from today’s neighborhoods — and what local policies can do about it.
  • How to navigate market dynamics and work with developers.
  • Success stories and lessons learned from communities tackling similar challenges.

Whether you’re looking to update local plans, work more effectively with stakeholders, or better understand housing market forces, you’ll leave with actionable insights to bring Middle Housing to your community.