Housing Resources Inc. announced that their project designed to create housing for the unhoused will no longer happen.
“Being a homeless person in Kalamazoo is kind of rough,” Merlyn Shattuck told FOX 17.
As someone experiencing homelessness, he was looking forward to A Place of Dignity, also known as the pod community that was coming to Kalamazoo. The community would have consisted of 50 tiny homes designed to give people experiencing homelessness a bed, electricity and storage while they look for permanent housing.
“It seems like everything that they try to do nice for the community or for the homeless people goes awry. It just ends up going some way wrong,” he said.
Shattuck wasn’t the only one disappointed — this was the last thing Housing Resources Inc.’s executive director wanted to do.
“I think the most heartbreaking thing, as now the weather begins to turn cold, is there’s just another winter upon us to ask what happens for people who are still out there,” Michelle Davis told FOX 17.