housing

Governor Greg Gianforte is asking Congress for help with the housing shortage in Montana, utilizing leftover COVID Emergency Rental Assistance funds.

Thousands of families still struggle to afford housing, and many make poverty-level wages.

There are predictions that up to 32,000 new residents may be moving into the Missoula area between now and the year 2040 and various organizations are looking at how that will affect housing availability and affordability at a meeting this week.

The Missoula Organization of Realtors released their annual housing report yesterday and while home values in the county are up, the supply of homes on the market is at record lows.

The Montana Board of Housing recently issued a $42 Million bond sale which will be used to help first-time Montana home buyers secure a lower interest rate for their home mortgages.

The city of Missoula and the Western Montana Health Center are seeking public comment on a project to acquire land to construct eight one-bedroom units of rental housing for homeless people with mental illness, dual diagnoses, or HIV/AIDS as priority tenants.

Monday's Missoula city council meeting involved a fiery discussion over a proposed text change to the way Missoula's zoning codes are read. The change would allow owners of single family zoned homes to create or use adjacent dwelling units (or ADUs) as rentals...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — One of U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg's talking points on the campaign trail has been to blame the federal government for the housing crash — even though the Republican himself once supported federal down payment assistance for low-income borrowers...

Motorcycle enthusiasts sometimes have a difficult choice: leave their beloved rides out in the elements, or pay to garage them. But Japanese architects may have come up with the perfect solution — an apartment complex with a compact motorcycle garage in each unit.

There is no doubt inside the great American illusion of prosperity that the majority of the population suffers from the same sickness — high cost of living.