Housing

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Bozeman nonprofit uses millions to help ease affordable housing crisis

They went from around $650,000 in construction in progress in 2018 to $4.8 million in that same category in 2019.

If Housing is a Human Right…

Advocates of statutory upzoning can’t point to any substantial empirical evidence that the developer giveaways and corporate welfare they are promoting will actually lead to housing affordability.

Bozeman officials frustrated by state efforts to limit affordable housing tools

It takes aim at “inclusionary zoning,” which is the basis for Bozeman’s affordable housing ordinance.

New Research on the Effects of Market-Rate Development and Upzoning

There’s a growing debate among housing advocates over the neighborhood-level impacts of market-rate housing development.

Build Housing, Not Expressways

This is a fine place to plan a postpandemic urban neighbourhood. Green but dense. Served by transit and light on cars. Home to 15,000 and, if the city chooses, thousands of them in permanently affordable housing. These are the things you can build in a rich and growing city, the sort of things on which leaders hang their legacy.

Boise, Idaho Using Adaptive Reuse to Convert Offices to Affordable Housing

Under the city’s Grow Our Housing program, vacant offices could see a new life as below-market rentals.

Berkeley considers ending single-family zoning by December 2022: A ‘big deal’

Berkeley is the latest city looking at opening up these exclusive neighborhoods to more housing as the region struggles with exorbitant rents and home prices and increasing homelessness.

Select group of Missoula City Council members to embark on search for housing trust appointees

The Affordable Housing Citizens Oversight Committee will include four City Council appointments, three of which will have voting powers. The mayor also will make three appointments to the committee and Missoula County will make one.

Belgrade, Montana publishes plan to invest in downtown

The city is now accepting feedback on the document, and the planning board will review it on Monday.

Why I left Bozeman, or: Who will make our soy lattes now?

You’ve got to wonder if a million bucks will go far enough these days.