(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) l-r Rep. Rebecca Edwards, R-North Salt Lake, and Rep. Joel Briscoe, D-Salt Lake City, talk with Alexandra Crowley, right, holding her daughter Peitience, 1. Crowley and her husband, who she says has a good paying job, struggle to make ends meet with a $1150/mo. rent in a cramped triplex. "I'm thankful to have a home at least," she said. Affordable housing advocates joined lawmakers, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018 to promote three housing-related bills to finance affordable-housing construction. .
Bill joined The Tribune in November 2017 from the Idaho Statesman in Boise, where he covered state government and politics. He earlier reported on city and state government and politics in New York for 13 years.