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Affordable housing bill is a win-win, but for whom?

by Robert Horne, Jr.
| November 9, 2023 1:00 AM

Contrary to Nathan Dugan’s assertion (Montana Land Use Planning Act makes city planning more inclusive), Senate Bill 382 contains no secrete sauce, magic potion, or any other way to make community planning “more inclusive” or to include “marginalized” citizens. (Note: I was a professional community planner for 44 years and not once did I ever tell anyone, “Oh, you can’t participate in our planning process because you are marginalized.”)    

Dugan posits that “What the law actually does is increase participation in the process….” 

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