Montana Zoning Atlas Roundup

By Tanner Avery

03/17/2022

"Our leaders can adopt pro-housing reforms that give landowners the freedom to build new homes where they are needed most."

TAGS: affordable housing, exclusionary zoning, housing, zoning

MTLeg Viewpoint: Affordable Housing: Cut the Red Tape, But Don’t Stop There

By Rep. Kim Abbott, Sen. Jill Cohenour

03/15/2022

"We are facing the question of whether Montana will continue to be a place where working and middle class folks can afford to build a future for themselves and their families."

TAGS: affordable housing, exclusionary zoning, housing, Legislative Viewpoints, zoning

MTLeg Viewpoint: Regulations Stand In The Way Of Attainable Housing

By Rep. Casey Knudsen, Rep. Caleb Hinkle, Rep. Katie Zolnikov, Rep. Braxton Mitchell, Rep. Mallerie Stromswold

03/15/2022

"We can’t wait for solutions and hope the problem goes away. If young people can’t afford to live and raise a family here, the future of Montana is at stake."

TAGS: affordable housing, exclusionary zoning, housing, Legislative Viewpoints, zoning

Montana Cities Need Pro-Housing Reforms

By Kendall Cotton

03/14/2022

Together, Exclusionary Single-Family Zoning and Minimum Lot Areas effectively serve as invisible billboards at the gates of growing Montana neighborhoods which read: “low and middle income residents are not welcome here".

TAGS: affordable housing, housing, zoning

Pro-Housing Reforms

By Tanner Avery

03/11/2022

"Of the cities examined, 70% of primary residential areas either outright prohibit or penalize affordable multi-family housing development."

TAGS: affordable housing, exclusionary zoning, housing, zoning

Jim Applebee

By Frontier Institute

03/09/2022

"Streamlining the process in any way would be a significant factor in saving time and money, and the most important thing – bringing more affordable homes to the market quicker."

TAGS: affordable housing, bozeman, exclusionary zoning, story hero, zoning

Frontier Institute Publishes Montana Zoning Atlas Report

By Frontier Institute

03/03/2022

The Frontier Institute's Montana Zoning Atlas demonstrates how strict zoning regulations impact housing costs.

TAGS: affordable housing, exclusionary zoning, housing, minimum lot sizes, press release, zoning

MTLeg Viewpoint: We Need More Housing

By Sen. Greg Hertz

02/15/2022

"Housing will not get more affordable or more accessible until the root cause of the problem is addressed: supply."

TAGS: ADU, affordable housing, Building Regulations, housing, Legislative Viewpoints

‘Silver Shotgun’ Approach Needed to Address Housing Affordability

By Kendall Cotton

01/31/2022

Land doesn’t come cheap, so requiring larger lots over the standard minimum effectively penalizes multi-family homes by making them more costly to build compared to traditional single-family homes.

TAGS: affordable housing, Building Regulations, housing, zoning

Montana Cities are the Problem, and the Solution to Housing

By Daniel Woislaw

01/06/2022

City governments are the problem with Montana’s housing crisis, but they could be part of the solution

TAGS: ADU, affordable housing, housing