The median house in Bozeman costs THIRTEEN TIMES the median family income in Bozeman ($899.9K to $67,354).

Compare that to Great Falls, where the median house costs less than six times the median family income ($305K to $53,126).

Old Bozeman homes are being torn down and replaced with huge, multi-million dollar McMansions that regular Bozemanites cannot afford. This is making our neighborhoods wealthier, more exclusive, and blander.

In most of Bozeman, the only home that can be legally built is for a single household – but developers can build them big enough to comfortably house several families. So, while Bozeman struggles under a housing shortage, we can’t build enough homes AND the only new homes are expensive and do not expand housing availability.

Under the zoning status quo, we are becoming a city where teachers, nurses, and others essential workers we depend on cannot afford to live here.

Bozeman can become home to the workers we depend on again by re-legalizing workforce housing options in all our neighborhoods.

Too many young people are leaving Bozeman because they cannot afford a home here. Too many parents are seeing their children choose to build lives elsewhere because Bozeman isn’t affordable.

Bozeman can become a place for young families again by re-legalizing starter homes they can afford.

No neighborhood should bear the entire brunt of new development but no neighborhood should be walled off from new housing either. Every neighborhood in Bozeman is special and should be open to hardworking residents and families across the economic spectrum.