WASHINGTON, D.C. – September 27, 2013 – (RealEstateRama) — When workers have needed a place to hang their hat during a Montana boom and bust cycle, transportable housing has come riding to the rescue.
On Thursday (Oct. 10) at 6:30 p.m. at the Montana Historical Society MHS Reference Historian Zoe Ann Stoltz will present a free public program, “Montana’s Booming Need for Transportable Housing,” to explore the ways manufactured housing has been used to meet those needs.
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Montana has a long history of boom and bust development in industries such as mining, oil development, mineral extraction, and massive federal projects over the years.
Stoltz will examine how such housing has affected communities over the years, and how citizens and local government alike have had to deal with it.
The program is based on research Stoltz did for her master’s a thesis and more recently a talk at the recent Montana History Conference in Sidney, which is experiencing a massive influx of workers to deal with the current oil field development in the Williston oil basin.
“Most Montanans are accustomed to the site of manufactured housing,” Stoltz said. “Even though it provides a large percentage of Montana housing it continues to erroneously get a bad rap.”
Contact: Tom Cook 406-444-1645
