About 150 people attended a meeting on Dec. 3 about Lansing’s plan to establish a pod community as transitional housing for residents who are homeless.
In a packed room, hitting the Foster Community Center room’s occupancy limit, 45 people spoke in near-unanimous opposition to establishing the NOVA Lansing Housing Initiative in a public park. Residents said it could upend the services and activities at the parks.
“The NOVA project would supplant and diminish the robust use of this by neighbors,” said retired Allen Neighborhood Center executive director Joan Nelson…