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B4P

Bozeman

Social housing

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Treasurer

he/him

Zeth Stone

Natsuki Nakamura

Social Media

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Overview Agenda

Building Connections and Challenges

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Inroads with Labor
Strategic calculations

Major Takeaways

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Use your DSA network
Building Capacity

Our Campaign

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Overview of Campaign

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Our Campaign

Demand - County or City create a housing authority and implement social housing model.
Target - Gallatin County Commission (3 people) and Bozeman City Commission (5 people)
Opponents - Local real estate industry and existing housing related non-profits
Strategy - use Montana Code to submit petitions to establish a housing authority

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Timeline

Jun. ‘22-Jul. ‘23

Development

Research and meetings with politicians

Petition submissions

Delivered to City & County Clerks

Aug. ‘23

County hearing

Denies petition 3-0

Nov. ‘23

City hearing

Denies petition 5-0

Dec. ‘23

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-We spent 13 months on research, built out our talking points, learned the way the City was using existing funds towards housing (and who..) and met with local politicians that included State legislators, former commissioners, and most of the City Commission

-Urban camping Ordinance became hot button issue and the criteria to est. a housing authority was a lack of safe and sanitary housing. So the idea was use this hot button political issue to force the issue by submitting the petition (Threshold est. by state code minimal signatures). Neither City or County knew the petitions were coming and it caught them off guard.

The County hearing drew a large crowd that was mostly in opposition and included large statewide interest groups like AFP, Landlord Association, Southwest Builders association, National builders association, former state legislators and county commissioners.

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Major takeaways

USE YOUR DSA NETWORK/COMRADES

Denver DSA
House Our Neighbors (Seattle)
Metro DC’s Montgomery County branch

Building Capacity

Leadership emerging
Creating media
Education events
LTE’s and Public comment

Denver DSA - first learned that existing housing authority rejected their idea of a public developer

House our Neighbors - met with us and gave us pros and cons about public developer route

Metro DC’s - predicting a lot of the hurdles that we might see, took me on a tour of a social development, identified an additional funding mechanism

Building capacity

leadership - Natsuki (my partner) sent the initial emails to, gave numerous public comments, wrote LTEs, learned to power map, updated our website and Chris (co-chair) first campaign and knew very little about housing policy dug in and gave public comment, wrote the script for

Creating media - used local videographer and tried to make it as local as possible. Used example projects that the City approved and professions that common to the identity of the town. Our largest employers, college and resort town.

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Social Housing video

Public Ownership panel

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Labor Unions 🤝 DSA 🤝 The Working Class

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Inroads with Labor

IUPAT DC 82

2021 – Cease and desist letter regarding PRO Act campaign
2022 – How to start a union workshop (3 painters attended)
2023 – Attendees later started IUPAT local (first in the region)
2023 – IUPAT staff Organizer attends and gives public comment in favor

AFL-CIO

2023 - MT AFL-CIO prohibits us from participating in UPS practice picket
2023 – Strike Ready 2023 fundraiser and MT AFL-CIO donation of $850
2023 – National AFL-CIO Regional Organizer (Billings, MT) served as panelist on Public Ownership call

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Cease and Desist

letter

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Challenges

Real Estate Industry and nonprofits did not like the idea of losing market share
Chapter unaligned in mayoral race
List building was not prioritized and saw minimal growth
Lacked cohesive coalition building strategy

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Questions?

Democratic

Socialists of America

dsausa.org

https://linktr.ee/BozemanDSA

zeth.stone@gmail.com

nenakamura4@gmail.com