(Al Hartmann | Salt Lake Tribune file photo) Even with more apartments popping up all over, a shortage of single-family homes on the market has resulted in a surge in housing prices — for both owner-occupied homes and rental apartments — that lifted the Wasatch Front's year-over-year inflation rate to 3.9 percent in April.
Mike Gorrell is a business writer, one of many positions he's held at The Trib — covering natural disasters, the weather, water, environment, Olympics, tourism, skiing and coal mining — since joining the paper in 1983 after nine years (four year part-time) at the Murray-based weekly newspaper The Green Sheet.