After building 20,000 homes in 31 years, you’d think Ivory Homes would have settled on its approach.
But as Utah’s largest homebuilder marked the construction milestone Thursday with a celebration for Ivory Homes’ employees, CEO Clark Ivory promised new strategies to make future dwellings more affordable, energy efficient and kinder to the environment.
Ivory said the Murray-based company would double the number of homes it is setting aside for workforce housing, expanding to 200 newly built dwellings per year reserved at affordable prices for purchase by teachers, nurses, veterans, police officers, first-time buyers and those working in Utah’s construction trades.
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