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Missoula panelist: housing must be treated as a social good, not a commodity
Western Montana Democratic Socialists of America — 2025 Socialism Speaker Series (final installment) · December 2, 2025
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Summary
Josh Decker told a Missoula audience that housing is dignity and not merely shelter, criticized local camping restrictions that target unhoused people, and urged tenant unions, land trusts and co‑ownership as alternatives.
Josh Decker, a longtime Missoula resident, carpenter and tenants union member, addressed housing as a fundamental need and a site of power under capitalism. He urged reframing housing from a market commodity to a social good that includes dignity, privacy and community.
Decker contrasted housing's economic scale—he cited housing at…
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