Homelessness

A homeless shelter in Kalispell is taking the city to court after the city council revoked its permit to operate. The shelter’s lawyers expect this to be an important case nationally.

The Montana VA says it has exceeded its goal for housing homeless veterans this year.

The Flathead Valley will not have a homeless shelter this winter. The Kalispell City Council voted Monday to revoke a local shelter’s permit to operate.

The Kalispell City Council will vote on whether or not the Flathead Warming Center will be permitted to stay open.

The Kalispell City Council is set to vote July 16th on whether to revoke a local homeless shelter’s permit.

A majority of Missoula City Council members signed a public letter reaffirming support for new restrictions on where unhoused people can live.

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned a ruling on Friday that prevented cities from fining or jailing unhoused people for sleeping in public if the city didn’t have another option for them.

A new program from The United Way of Northwestern Montana is helping pay for unhoused people in the Flathead Valley to move to places where they have a support network.

Some of Kalispell's unsheltered population are banding together for safety after one man was beaten to death in late June.

Montana is a tough place to be homeless. The state's annual ceremony memorializing homeless people who've died, happened to fall on one of the coldest nights of the year.