Zoning regulations constrict housing supply and make affordable housing less accessible. It’s time to remove these roadblocks so Montanans can better afford to live in the communities they work in.
For cities/suburbs struggling with housing costs, lowering minimum lot sizes is like a cheat code. As @salimfurth explains, it:
1. Produces less expensive housing
2. Saves on infrastructure/services
3. Protects natural areas
4. Empowers property owners
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Special environmental review requirements for federally funded transit projects are making earmarks impossible...something like half the cost of the fed funding for this project would be eaten up by an environmental review
The bus stops here: Study reveals which transit mode is the Tampa Bay area's job creation champion https://t.co/MTYEc4RtGf via @TBBJVeronica #tampabay#transit
🧐 "In the Tampa region, afternoon vehicle trips are 105% of pre-pandemic levels, the highest rate increase among metro areas with at least three million residents"
Suburban afternoon traffic is heavier now than it was before Covid-19, as people working from home hop in the car more often to shop, run errands or pick up the kids https://t.co/m9nAgALCZ3 via @WSJ Story @scottmcalvert 📷Photos @OctavioJones
Imagine if food worked like housing: local governments control how much food may be sold. Food hoarders call the shots, so there's never enough food to go around. As a result, 3/4 of households are malnourished; half are severely malnourished. We all accept this as normal.
“If it hadn't been for folks like @AdamHoyer, I wouldn’t have been in the White House in the first place to be able to get the Affordable Care Act passed.” —President @BarackObama https://t.co/PaBjTSvOVz
@yfreemark Spending plan was also approved multiple times by County Commission. This is an old fashioned Tallahassee Takeback. Voters will remember in 2022.
The state’s highest court may have struck down their penny tax, but All for Transportation’s Tyler Hudson says, they’re looking to the future. https://t.co/sxvjxHNFHB
From Wimauma to New Tampa to South of Gandy, communities demand infrastructure & mass transit investments - & this is what stands between us & half a billion dollars in @AllforTransport relief dollars. https://t.co/5vtIpXWUFD