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Bozeman officials see some good, some bad in housing task force’s draft report

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A draft report from Gov. Greg Gianforte’s housing task force is raising some eyebrows in Bozeman.

 

 

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Affordable Housing Now Legal By-Right on Commercial Lots in California

One of the nation’s most ambitious and sweeping statewide laws intended to spur affordable housing development was signed into law in California at the end of September.

One Year Later ‘Boise Is In A Full Fledged Housing Crash,’

I believe we can now declare the era of Boise being the most overvalued housing market in America over. For two years, Idaho’s capital city led the nation in inflated home values.

Home buyers backing out of deals in droves in parts of U.S.

Homebuyers backed out of contracts at a much higher rate in Sun Belt cities such as Jacksonville (26.1%), Las Vegas (23%) and Phoenix (21.6%), which “surged in popularity and price during the pandemic,” according to the report.

Single-family zoning helping fuel Montana housing shortage, according to new report

 In Montana’s most in-demand communities more than 70 percent of residential areas either prohibit or penalize the building of multifamily housing, a zoning regulation fueling some of Montana’s housing shortage, according to a preliminary report released Monday by the Governor’s Housing Task Force.

Opendoor’s iBuyer Model Is a Canary in the Economy of Housing Coal Mine

The company is losing huge sums of money on cookie-cutter homes—suggesting a fundamental weakness in the US housing market.

 

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