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Zephyr outlines housing strategy: community land trusts, parking limits and landlord‑tenant overhaul
Summary
Representative Zoe Zephyr described housing policies she pushed and hopes to advance — community land trusts, caps on parking requirements, limits on local height restrictions up to six stories, and a long‑term goal to rewrite the Landlord Tenant Act to increase mobility and limit rent pressure.
Representative Zoe Zephyr told the Western Montana DSA that housing will be a primary focus for future legislative sessions and described several policy tools she supports to increase supply and mobility.
Zephyr described community land trusts as “market‑insulated housing” in which "the land is leased on a hundred year lease. You own the home and you can buy and sell it basically at construction value as opposed to general market value." She said a community land trust home in Missoula runs about half the typical market…
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