housing

Developers are seeking more than half a billion dollars in tax breaks for the $740 million plan to build three new towers in downtown Grand Rapids.

Harbor Springs in northern Michigan has issued a moratorium on building permits after voters repealed an updated zoning ordinance over concerns about local character and in spite of concerns about housing supply.

Today, we talk with reporters about Detroit buildings that look abandoned, but have owners — and why that's the case. Then, we listen to some of last night's Issues and Ale from Kalamazoo. Later, we discuss how one Michigan diner is bringing people together by talking politics.

Bills to forbid Michigan landlords from refusing to lease apartments to people based on their source of income are on their way to Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

Economist Betsy Stevenson discusses the effectiveness of short-term rental bans, like those targeting Airbnb, in addressing Michigan's housing affordability crisis. She offers insights into alternative policy approaches that could better balance the needs of residents and the realities of the housing market.

The Michigan Senate Housing and Human Services Committee approved bills Tuesday that would expand regulations on mobile home parks.

A report by the University of Michigan and Michigan State Housing Development Authority says housing costs are outstripping many Michigan residents' incomes.

The city of Jackson in southern Michigan is offering $25,000 to new home buyers as part of its project to build 100 new houses on city-owned vacant lots.

What Michigan farmers are up against in the changing climate and growing seasons. Also today, what’s wrong with Michigan’s housing stock. A discussion on a new study of statewide housing needs. Growing interest in native plants. Then, a short history of Gerrymandering in the United States and Michigan lessons about reclaiming representation.

It could become illegal in Michigan to deny renting to someone because of their source of income, under a bill package heading for the state House of Representatives.