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Something really BIG happened. Montana just passed a bipartisan reform to make housing more affordable (www.sightline.org)
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  • Developers will no longer be required to build parking for new homes and new apartments. This is a huge change. Bozeman, Missoula, and Whitefish currently ban new housing that don't add parking spots.

  • Six-story apartment buildings in most commercial zones will become legal.

  • Limits on impact fees that cities charge developers, which increase the cost of construction

This is fucking huge. The governor still must sign the bills.

Thank you to lawmakers for

A. Listening to experts.

B. Working together

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[–] stormeuh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah this sounds like something cooked up by the abundance "movement", who insist the solution to the housing problem is removing regulations. It's clearly an effort by moneyed interests, to misdirect the appetite for economic populism which exists in the Democratic party.