MT: Bozeman residents seek to address affordable housing shortage with ballot initiative

[RandySF]

BOZEMAN — A new effort is underway to bring more affordable housing to Bozeman.

A group of Bozeman residents is trying to get an initiative on the ballot that would link water rights with affordable housing. Organizers say they are getting creative after the legislature took away inclusionary zoning, which required a certain amount of affordable housing to be built within city limits.

This proposed initiative would require developments of two or more dwellings to provide their own water rights, rather than pay cash to the city as most currently do unless they include 33% or more of affordable housing.

Since water rights are hard to come by in Bozeman, the initiative would essentially ban developments that did not meet the requirements.




https://www.kbzk.com/news/local-news/bozeman-residents-seek-to-address-affordable-housing-shortage-with-ballot-initiative

[2naSalit]

1. They have to do something...

The homeless/housing situation is horrible. I left that county because housing was not available, I had to move two counties away to find anything and it took me a few years, one I spent in my car.