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How you can make housing more affordable in your place. – 11/15 – Online 10:00 MST

This presentation introduces a first-of-its-kind discussion of the tension between housing as a financial product and housing as shelter. These insights will help local communities fight back against the current affordability housing crisis and opt out of the boom-and-bust cycles that have typified housing in postwar America.

How Americans Voted Their Way Into a Housing Crisis

A new book from Jerusalem Demsas explores how local elections, community meetings and other democratic structures brought on a national shortage of affordable homes. 

As Northwest homes and businesses get more energy efficient, that’s helping the power grid, report finds. Interested in Installing Renewable Energy?

Energy efficient upgrades are playing a critical role in keeping the Northwest’s power grid balanced, according to an analysis by the Northwest Power and Conservation Council.

In 2024, Montana ranks among the least “sticky” states, with only 13% of relocating residents staying in-state — far below the national average of 26%.

Montana’s real estate market booms have outpaced local incomes. Since 2020, home values have surged 60%, pricing out many long-time residents. Despite attracting newcomers, high housing costs and a rural economy have forced 87% of Montana’s movers to seek more affordable living options out of state.

Montana sees fifth-highest job growth in the country since the onset of the pandemic

The bulk of those jobs are in the health care, education, and tourism fields. Those industries experienced big losses during COVID, but now employ more people than before the pandemic.

2024 MEDA Fall Conference – 9/24-26 – Havre, Montana

Exciting agenda to inform, engage and ignite your creative ideas to improve your community and state.

Montana housing task force suggests limiting urban parking requirements

A recommendation in new report would prevent Billings, Missoula, Great Falls, Bozeman and Helena from enforcing parking requirements for new development in an effort to spur home construction.

Intergenerational Housing Could Help Older Adults Combat Loneliness

Care communities that blend senior living with college campuses and daycare centers offer an alternative for a more social generation of retirees. 

Transit & Transportation Planning Open House Wednesday, September 11 – Missoula

You’re invited to help shape the future of transit and transportation in Missoula! Please join us to learn more about the Long-Range Transportation Plan (LRTP) Update and Transit Strategic Plan, ask questions, and share your ideas. 

Montana group uses co-op model to take on housing crisis

Neighborworks Montana and the North Missoula Community Development Corporation are expanding the co-op concept in Missoula, notorious for its housing shortage.

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