Martin Kidston

(Missoula Current) 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.

In 2023, at the request of the city and other partners, the Missoula Redevelopment Agency allocated roughly $500,000 in funding to place modular bathrooms at the shelter to support the facility's population.

The restrooms went into service in 2024 and continued into the fall of 2025, when the shelter ended operations. The shelter is now being deconstructed ahead of planned redevelopment, and the bathrooms need to be moved.

“The city no longer has an active use for those (bathroom) facilities, but the county does,” said Eric Halstrom, the city's chief operations

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