MONTANA: Frontier Institute - Montana Zoning Atlas

Frontier Institute - Montana Zoning Atlas

Kansas City, MO

Montana’s affordable housing crisis is fundamentally driven by a shortage of available homes. From 2010-2020 Montana’s population grew 10% while housing only increased 7% — contributing to sky-high home prices. The Frontier Institute developed The Montana Zoning Atlas, an interactive resource that demonstrates how strict local zoning regulations exclude low and middle-income residents and worsen Montana’s housing shortage.

The Montana Zoning Atlas 2.0 is one of seventeen state atlases being built by over three dozen universities, nonprofits, and public agencies as part of the National Zoning Atlas project, which aims to depict the nation’s 30,000 zoning codes in a clear, publicly accessible map.

Breaking down government barriers so all Montanans can thrive.