It May Be Time To Negotiate Your Rent
It was the summer of 2020, and my friend and I were looking for a place to rent together in Bozeman. I was no longer able to stay in my old place, and it was...
Inside the Bipartisan Housing Policy that Swept Congress
INTRODUCTION In today’s political environment, it is increasingly out of the ordinary for substantial policy legislation to sail through Congress with...
2026 Market Report
What’s going on in the Bozeman Rental Market? Here at Headwaters, we spend a lot of time learning about housing affordability and the Bozeman housing market....
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
I was on my first cup of coffee the morning after our slightly belated April Fools’ snow dump when I heard a familiar sound: the scrape of shovel against...
What the New York Times Editorial Board is missing on housing
Housing affordability is on the front page of the Paper of Record this morning, as the New York Times Editorial Board calls for a growing housing supply...
Growing Roots in Bozeman
For a long time, Hunter and Sarah thought that their life in Bozeman had an expiration date. They were working, contributing members of the community – but...
The Housing Trust Homeownership Cycle: Tierney and Caleb
This year, we witnessed something powerful: our first CHT home completing the full homeownership cycle—proving that permanently affordable housing really...
Headwaters in the news: Bozeman housing market cools, but a stable market hasn’t meant an affordable one
Nora Shelly, Montana Free Press It feels like a distant era now, but it wasn’t that long ago that signs of Bozeman’s crushing housing crisis were unavoidable....
Housing is our community’s greatest challenge, but WARD isn’t the solution.
Housing has dominated the public conversation in Bozeman for the last several years – and for good reason. A recent poll found that 51% of Bozemanites say...
New poll shows housing affordability remains a critical challenge in Bozeman
This Fall, Headwaters commissioned a poll to take the public temperature on housing affordability in Bozeman. We asked Bozemanites how high costs of housing...