What can we learn about today's housing costs from a 54-year-old checkbook?

KSL's Inside Sources

What can we learn about today's housing costs from a 54-year-old checkbook?

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Published on Aug 31, 2026, 2:12:14 PM
Total time: 00:08:47

Episode Description

We all know housing costs have gone higher and higher -- that's no shocker. But just how high have they gone? Deseret News opinion editor Jay Evensen recently found his father's old checkbook from 1962. In it, he found clues about how our cost-of-living has changed, and how housing costs take up more and more of our paycheck. He joins Inside Sources to share more of his insights from his father's little money book.

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The all-new Inside Sources. Hosted by Greg Skordas and Dr. Holly Richardson, two well-known voices in Utah’s legal and political circles.