Wednesday, April 02, 2025
43.0°F

GOP strategy to help the housing crisis is to increase property taxes

by Monica Tranel
| August 27, 2023 12:00 AM

Across western Montana, people are being squeezed out of their homes and communities by rising prices. Teaching positions go unfilled – and no one is applying to fill them because a $40,000 salary - the high end of starting teacher salaries in Montana, doesn’t afford a home, even if you’re lucky to find a house for sale in rural places like Seeley Lake....

Support Local News

You have read all of your free articles this month. Select a plan below to start your subscription today.

Already a subscriber? Login

Daily Inter Lake - everything
Print delivery, e-edition and unlimited website access
  • $26.24 per month
Buy
Daily Inter Lake - unlimited website access

  • $9.95 per month
Buy
CLICK HERE FOR E-EDITION OPTION, $16.10 PER MONTH