In 2025, the City worked with community stakeholders and Root Policy Research to comprehensively assess the City's housing strategy, A Place to Call Home, which was adopted in 2019. The 2025 Housing Strategy Update named the following strategies to guide the City's housing work:
Fund - Generate resources for affordable housing development, preservation, and services.
Preserve - Work to maintain existing dedicated and naturally occurring affordable housing.
Assist - Increase access to resident housing services and programs through partnerships, funding, and tailored program development. Build capacity among partners to address the city's housing challenges.
Build - Support development of dedicated affordable housing, naturally occurring affordable housing, and diverse housing types to accommodate a broad spectrum of needs and preferences.
Track - Collect, analyze, assess, and report housing data in service of the City's housing goals.
The report from Root Policy recommends 17 actions in those strategy areas for the City to pursue between now and 2030:
Colleen Kane Grants Administrator (406) 552-6219 Email
Anne Geiger Strategic Initiatives Manager (406) 552-6648 Email
Explanations of each recommended action, etc. are available at 2025 Housing Strategy Update (without appendices). The appendices to the strategy update are also available for further reading: