Living on the street in Bozeman Montana.

[montanabill]

Seems they are having issues with folks living in campers and cars on the streets of one of thefaster growing towns in america...

The average cost to rent a one-bedroom apartment in Bozeman, Montana is $2,212 per month. The average size of a one-bedroom apartment in Bozeman is 610 sq ft.

https://montanafreepress.org/2024/1...-campers-in-wake-of-new-law/?utm_medium=email

 

[d_marsh]

I wonder how many of them are transplants from California? Sounds like they need to drive the cars and campers back there.

 

[Pearl]

People can't afford to live.... thanks Obama!!

 

[d_marsh]

People can't afford to live.... thanks Obama!!

In this case, the blame lies equally between Obama, Gavin Newsome and the idiots who fled California to Montana so they could turn Montana into California.

 

[havasu]

My daughter is looking at a 4 bed/2 bath home in central California, on 3½ acres, for $550k. This house would be $2m, just for the land. They pay $3k a month rent by us, and is not sustainable.

I just can't see homeless in Montana living in a car, with the frigid temperatures up there.

 

[Mountain trapper]

Why would anyone that can't afford it ever move to Bozeman? That's just plain stupid. They should turn their arse around and go somewhere else. We get fools moving up here too that can't afford to live here. Don't these people have enough brains to at least check out the housing costs before moving to an area? I don't have much sympathy for people like that.

 

[Pearl]

T

Why would anyone that can't afford it ever move to Bozeman? That's just plain stupid. They should turn their arse around and go somewhere else. We get fools moving up here too that can't afford to live here. Don't these people have enough brains to at least check out the housing costs before moving to an area? I don't have much sympathy for people like that.

hat does seem pretty dang stupid!!

 

[Mountain trapper]

My daughter is looking at a 4 bed/2 bath home in central California, on 3½ acres, for $550k. This house would be $2m, just for the land. They pay $3k a month rent by us, and is not sustainable.

I just can't see homeless in Montana living in a car, with the frigid temperatures up there.

When I worked in North Dakota there were countless people living in their cars and campers looking for a job in the oil fields. I hired many people that were camped out in the Walmart parking lot or farmers fields etc. Even during winter. I set up man camps for our employees and provided room and board + guaranteed 84 hour work weeks and a 3×3 rotational schedule. It's surprising how many people turned these jobs down.

 

[Pearl]

I wonder if they are only there in the summer and go south in the winter?

 

[UserNameTaken]

I am sad that as a nation we have chosen to allow the supreme court to criminalize being poor or unhoused. Especially in places where housing is unavaliable or beyond reach of residents. Bozeman is different from inner city ghetto homeless. While there are those with addiction issues, many are simply the working poor who are priced out of housing. Regardless, they are human beings.

When I was 16 our condo burned down (12 units). Thankfully as the fire spread I got my guns and our camping and fishing gear out, and jumped off the second story. We camped in the forest for 6 months while getting back on our feet. There was no red cross, or welfare, and my mom managed the complex, so we lost our job too. But we weren't criminals.

Later, when I got out of the army I lived in my VW pop-top for 6 months on the beach in Florida and the Keys, because I could. Both were some of the best times of my life.

You know what's really sad, Grants Pass and Rogue River, OR was where survivalist Mel Tappan espoused moving to for those seeking freedom and the ability to live a sustaining lifestyle. Many of those who followed him there were not very well off either. How far we have fallen.

 

[Mountain trapper]

I wonder if they are only there in the summer and go south in the winter?

In my example above, they were there year round. Many of these guys were losers and had no skills whatsoever. They were even too useless and lazy to fill a laborer position (which paid $35 an hour with 44 hours a week overtime ). Usually, if someone has nothing and looks worthless, he probably is.