housing

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.

A state House panel held its first hearing Thursday on legislation to create a right to legal representation for people facing eviction from their rental homes.

A state House subcommittee held a hearing Thursday on bills to establish new housing protections, including what supporters are calling a “homeless bill of rights.”

The Michigan Housing Plan aims to tackle the housing crisis with the construction of 75,000 new rentals and more affordable single-family homes.