affordable housing

Residents spoke out against tax breaks for a proposed high-rise development at a city commission meeting Tuesday. They want the developers to put more money into the city's affordable housing fund.

Across the state voters will decide what their communities should do with marijuana sales, school or library funding, public safety, elections, energy, and more.

Mayors from Michigan and Ohio were in Detroit as part of a nationwide tour organized by the U.S. Conference of Mayors to draw attention to a lack of affordable housing.

Landlords would be barred from discriminating against tenants or prospective tenants who use housing vouchers or other types of public assistance to pay the rent under bills adopted by the Legislature.

The West Michigan county's health department talked to more than 5,000 residents about their health concerns. Housing topped the list.

The Michigan State Housing Development Authority and Michigan attorney general's office are warning of a scam targeting people looking for Housing Choice Vouchers.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer wants to use hundreds of millions of dollars to build low-income housing and to equip new homes with solar panels and energy-efficient appliances.

A series of bills in the Michigan state House would introduce new regulations on short-term rentals.

City officials tout the development, dubbed the Mapleridge Duplex Project, as an idea that can be expanded on to help provide more affordable housing, and foster generational wealth for new Detroit homeowners.

Michigan's Brownfield Tax Increment Financing (TIF) program is no longer limited to brownfields. The expansion aims to incentivize building low and middle income housing.