Montana city grapples with rise of unhoused people living in vehicles

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In some cities with growing numbers of people experiencing homelessness, the issue goes beyond encampments in public places — they’re also coping with more people living in cars and RVs parked on city streets. City leaders in Bozeman, Montana, are dealing with the tensions brought on by this more visible display of homelessness. Joe Lesar of Montana PBS reports.

[2naSalit]

1. Montana has no...

Social services for anyone for anything unless it is a federal program funded by the federal government.

I have lived in my car here, though I refused to go to Bozeman as advised by the "services" in the rural county I'm in. I fared better because of my resistance to going to the collected homeless in that county. I moved from that county due to housing costs. Now every county is too expensive to live in. The people who don't care about the homeless are the ones who made them homeless by coming here, buying up property and making it too expensive... partly by making so much of the new housing vacation rentals or just requiring rent higher than the local economy can afford. And the expansion into the hinterlands isn't helping.

Montana is being ruined by too many people moving in without understanding the fragility of the ecosystem they are trashing. That's what will run them off or kill them in the end.

The homeless problem is twofold, locals being priced out of house and home and people from elsewhere selling out and thinking they can come and live here for cheap only to find out the hard way that they were wrong.

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2. sorry about your housing... I hope it's improved. in California, I'm surrounded by people who sold

high priced California home and moved to other states to take advantage of lower cost houses... I wonder how they are doing.

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3. I am in housing...

And have been for several years now. I had to wait out my SSDI claim and that meant I couldn't work for a year. Kind of hard to keep a roof over your head without a job or SSDI and some kind of housing subsidy. I am now too old for SSDI and now have just regular SSI. I am thinking or moving out of the state because it's becoming too hard to survive. I can take my housing subsidy with me and my SSI goes with me so it won't be the hardest thing to do. I just need to do it before I can't if I am going to do it.

The situation with housing in Montana is only getting worse, especially with the magats in the legislature and most of the rest of our government. The only Dem we have, right now, is our US Senator. We have a small caucus in the state legislature who are overwhelmed by the magats.

Currently our Supreme Court is protecting us from a lot of the bad legislation but it might not last.