How Billionaires Helped Kill A Housing Development In A Montana Ski Town

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Facing a housing crisis, the northern Montana ski town of Whitefish is trying to build new affordable units. One of those projects ran into stiff opposition from the town’s billionaire denizens.

drive on Change.org that garnered nearly 3,900 signatures. Lawyers for the group declined to speak withIn January, as the project moved to the full city council for a final vote, Whitefish’s billionaires turned up the heat. At a council meeting on January 18, Foley’s representatives objected to the project on the grounds that it didn’t “preserve and protect the character of [the] neighborhood.”

The Joneses’ had first reached out to the Whitefish Community Foundation in September—a month after the Gateway development was announced—to explore a potential affordable housing project, and the foundation then searched for a property that could accommodate 100 to 200 units. Linda Engh-Grady, the foundation’s president, wrote in an email toSkiers on the Big Mountain at Whitefish Mountain Resort.

Foley echoed those concerns in a phone call from Nevada, where he lives for the majority of the year."There's so much traffic and so many people in that area, that to put that kind of development in that spot would really tie things up," he said. “There is no question that there is a need to expand the affordable housing stock in the Whitefish area,” he wrote. “Some people will disagree with me, but I think it’s irrelevant whether that housing stock is within town limits or just within convenient driving distance.”

Source: Real Estate Daily Report (realestatedailyreport.net)

 

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