"While there is no silver bullet to solving the housing crisis, zoning reform represents low hanging fruit cities can tackle relatively quickly to help address rising housing costs, all without having to spend taxpayer dollars."
Montana Zoning Atlas Roundup
"Our leaders can adopt pro-housing reforms that give landowners the freedom to build new homes where they are needed most."
MTLeg Viewpoint: Affordable Housing: Cut the Red Tape, But Don’t Stop There
"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."
MTLeg Viewpoint: Regulations Stand In The Way Of Attainable Housing
"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."
Montana Cities Need Pro-Housing Reforms
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".
Pro-Housing Reforms
"Of the cities examined, 70% of primary residential areas either outright prohibit or penalize affordable multi-family housing development."
Jim Applebee
"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."
Frontier Institute Publishes Montana Zoning Atlas Report
The Frontier Institute's Montana Zoning Atlas demonstrates how strict zoning regulations impact housing costs.
‘Silver Shotgun’ Approach Needed to Address Housing Affordability
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.
Responding to Myths About Housing Regulation
The research consensus is clear that strict regulations discourage affordable housing by adding thousands to costs and stifling development.
The Conservative Case for Affordable Housing
By rejecting progressive era urban planning regulations like single-family zoning, minimum lot sizes, setbacks and parking requirements, conservatives favor restoring the original vision of property rights and economic freedom held by America’s founders.
Address Affordability by Creating More Housing
A new report provides an enlightening overview of the ways in which regulations are driving up the cost of housing in Bozeman.
Blame Regulations for the High Cost of Housing, Not People
One of the biggest factors constricting the supply of housing is zoning and building regulations imposed by local governments.
How Montana can start building more houses, in 24 hours or less
Imagine instead if a developer could walk into a city permit office with their plans, walk out with a permit and start construction that same day.