The Missoula Housing Authority provided an informal leasing update to the Missoula Affordable Housing Trust Fund Resident Oversight Committee regarding Missoula’s largest affordable housing project, Villagio. The committee update spurred misconceptions about affordable housing and MHA’s policies. Executive Director Sam Oliver addresses these misconceptions.

Missoula Housing Authority (MHA) has been awarded $1,176,555 to help people experiencing homelessness. MHA is one of 23 organizations in Montana to receive a grant award from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) $3.2 billion in Continuum of Care (CoC) Competition Awards.

River Ridge is a beautiful senior community located just off Mullan Road near Reserve Street at 2840 Santa Fe Court. The 70-unit complex has three stories with 57 one-bedroom and 13 two-bedroom apartments.

A walk-through of Villagio Apartments. Located in Missoula’s Northside neighborhood at the end of Scott Street, Villagio is a 200-unit community offering 2, 3, and 4-bedroom units constructed in 2023.

U.S. Senator Jon Tester announced $158,911 in funding for the Missoula Housing Authority to help homeless veterans and their families find and retain permanent housing. This will amount to nearly 20 new permanent housing vouchers for the Missoula Housing Authority to house homeless veterans and their families.

Missoula Housing Authority receives twenty additional Housing Choice Vouchers (HCV) from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Move in Special: First Month Free

If you or someone you know needs a rent-restricted apartment in Missoula, please join MHA for our Open House at one of our newest, affordable properties in Missoula. Staff will be available for tours and to assist with applications.

In this issue we cover:

1. How we calculate rent, fees, and utilities

2. Rent increases

3. How to sign up for direct deposit

4. Lease violations

Missoula Housing Authority, with our partners at Homeword, is hosting an Open House on July 19, 2023 for three newly constructed affordable housing properties in Missoula. The Trinity project and Villagio offer 402 units combined, accounting for 20 years of affordable housing in Missoula.

Missoula Housing Authority’s Villagio Apartments are available for rent. Information about amenities and income limits can be found on this flyer.

Jim McGrath, Director of HUD Programs at Missoula Housing Authority, elected President of Montana Continuum of Care (CoC) Board of Directors.

The CoC program is funded through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to promote a community-wide commitment to ending homelessness.

The Missoula Housing Authority Board of Commissioners appointed Sam Oliver as Executive Director. Oliver is the first new Executive Director in 14 years following the retirement of Lori Davidson who held the position starting in 2008 and retired from MHA after more than 25 years of service.

Since 2005, Missoula Housing Authority (MHA) has operated Valor House, Montana’s first transitional apartments for homeless veterans, in partnership with the Veterans Administration and the Poverello Center. Valor House’s goals are to help homeless Veterans achieve residential stability, increase their skill levels and/or income, and obtain greater self-determination.

Missoula Housing Authority (MHA) has been awarded $1,063,971 to help people experiencing homelessness. MHA is one of 17 organizations in Montana to receive a grant award from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) $2.8 billion in Continuum of Care (CoC) Competition Awards. These awards are to help individuals and families experiencing homelessness move into permanent housing.

Our annual subsidized housing waitlist update has begun! On October 15, 2021, we mailed an update letter to every applicant on our subsidized housing programs waitlist. The letter is blue (there are a few on white paper) and is front and back,

In response to Missoula’s skyrocketing rents, HUD has granted MHA a special “Success Rate Fair Market Rent” which is higher than the established FMRs.

Western Montana Mental Health Center is selling the Bridge Apartments to the City of Missoula. The apartments built in 1996 have housed WMMHC clients and other disabled individuals.