For this 14th episode of ZAHP! I had a virtual conversation with Emily Withnall, a local Missoula writer who has conducted many housing related interviews around town, and has a personal history of growing up in poverty in northern New Mexico. She talks about it in detail in "The Snack Shack Blues", recently published in Gay Magazine. Find it at: https://gay.medium.com/the-snack-shack-blues-9b0df6f13042?source=friends_link&sk=a8fd73d331e30dda2908369f0cd54374 

Another of her articles is about the housing crisis in Missoula, called "Shelter from the Storm", and was recently published in Progressive Magazine. Find it at:  https://progressive.org/magazine/shelter-from-the-storm-withnall/. We talk about Emily's experience finding housing in Missoula as a newly arrived single mom graduate student with 2 children, 2 cats, and a low credit score.  Her experience in Missoula unfortunately is not unique and provides a good example of what many people experience when first looking for a home in our town.