SALT LAKE CITY — At a time when owning a home seems out of reach for many, a group of friends is trying to make the “American dream” possible.
Sky Evans, along with his wife Lily and friend Sawyer Reidelbach, started what they call The Homerun Project. They are renovating a 1920s house in Salt Lake City and, once it’s finished, plan to give it away — no mortgage, no rent, just a fresh start.
“We cannot fix the housing crisis for everybody, it’s such a disaster. But we wanted to fix it for someone,” Lily Evans said.
Evans said they are renters themselves and even sold one of their investment properties to help make the renovation possible…