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An agreement between the city and county of Missoula will keep a set of modular bathrooms constructed for the old Johnson Street shelter in use at another facility that also serves the homeless.

The Trump administration wants to focus federal housing aid on mental health treatment and enforcement against street homelessness, rather than on finding people permanent homes as quickly as possible.

Kyle Strid writes, "The cost of preventing an eviction with legal aid is roughly one-tenth the cost of managing the resulting homelessness."

Proposal has yet to be adopted, but it could be how Utah leaders react to Trump’s ‘crime and disorder’ executive order.

Mayor Andrea Davis writes, "We are not walking away. We are walking forward—with clearer tools, better coordination, and a stronger focus on getting people home." home.

After months of tight-lipped searching, state officials have announced the property they’ve zeroed in on for a new 1,300-bed “transformative” homeless campus.

Daniel Carlino writes, "We’re spending millions just to shuffle people from one unsafe location to another, instead of investing in real, lasting solutions."

Utah’s homelessness rate is still below national average – but the state’s annual report showed a ‘big jump.’

As the Johnston Street shelter enters its final weeks of operation, the race to place its remaining occupants into permanent housing continues.

Like other communities in Montana, Gallatin County and the Bozeman area have struggled with rising housing prices and homelessness during the last decade.