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Missoula Independent Hey UM students — welcome to Missoula, or welcome back. Classes start the 27th, we hear, so you’ll be neck-deep in it soon. But before you disappear with your head in a...

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August 2018

New data shows many Carbon County families struggling with affordable housing

Carbon County News Today, the Montana Budget and Policy Center (MBPC) unveiled county-level rental housing affordability data through an innovative online interactive map. Research shows that there...

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August 2018

Report: Missoula's low-income earners squeezed by high rental prices

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August 2018

Forgotten Communities: How state budget cuts gut public aid infrastructure in Montana’s rural counties

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June 2018

Growth and taxes: Can Alaska’s local option sales tax system prove a model for Montana?

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June 2018

MyVyllage: Missoula start-up mentors new child care businesses, connects families

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May 2018

105-unit affordable housing complex proposed for former Skyvew trailer park site

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May 2018

Montana's poor more burdened by housing costs than others

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