Together with leaders in the state legislature, Montana governor Greg Gianforte successfully passed an important package of bills that will make it easier to build more and less-expensive housing. Journalist Kriston Capps coined the phrase “Montana Miracle” to capture just how much the legislature did to roll back local barriers to housing construction in a single year.1 Before the legislative session began, Gianforte issued an executive order to establish the Governor’s Housing Task Force, which I served on.2 Specific features of the task force’s design and leadership contributed to making it an effective force for change, and it provides a model to other states where policymakers are seeking to remove barriers to housing construction.