No roads home: How a chronic housing shortage has Montana reservations locked in crisis

A long-standing housing shortage on reservations is reinforcing cycles of poverty by forcing young residents to seek opportunities far from home and by discouraging financially secure citizens from returning home.

A long-standing housing shortage on reservations in Montana reinforces cycles of poverty by forcing young residents to seek opportunities far from home and by discouraging financially secure citizens from returning to tribal communities. Federal funding for tribal housing is insufficient, while tangled land ownership, financing barriers, and lack of basic infrastructure stifle development. The result is a housing system that fails to meet the needs — or hopes — of current and future residen

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