I'd love the @washingtonpost to shut up about the rich white flight to Montana & instead cover our increasing homelessness & how wages increased 23% but housing costs 71%. Maybe talk about how that rich white flight is pricing families out of housing & onto the streets.
My family has 2 average incomes & if our landlord ever kicks us out, we will have to leave our home of 11 years, the only home our kids have known. We don't qualify for a mortgage here.
It's also infuriating to read as someone who works for the one agency where normal people go for help because their housing is being sold out from under them to out of state millionaires.
Because they can't find anyone to take their Section 8 voucher. Because they're sleeping in cars and can't afford the $500+ a month rent increase and their landlord doesn't care, they could raise the rest 2k a month and plenty of people coming in will pay it.
We fight every single day to preserve & increase affordable housing so normal families arent driven from their homes and it's like plugging a sieve.
I wish the WaPo had bothered to interview someone, anyone, who sees the suffering caused by this rich white flight. Who fights to minimize the negative impacts of the very issue the WaPo paints so cheerfully. Interview the families who built a life here and are forced to leave.
Interview the HRDC housing department or resource development department or interview Family Promise who works with homeless families. Talk to any number of non-profits who are fighting to help every day Montanans.
Interview struggling small business owners or the schools that can't keep up with the influx of new students. Talk to LITERALLY ANYONE but the millionaires and their greedy realtors.
Oh but that wouldn't be a fun story.
Oh but that wouldn't be a fun story.
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