In2023, Governor Gretchen Whitmer commissioned the first-ever statewide housing plan addressing the state’s housing crisis. “Our housing stock is old-nearly half of all units in Michigan were built before 1970… Young people cite housing affordability as one of their top concerns. These are statewide challenges. In Traverse City, school districts need housing for teachers who have nowhere else to go. On the Westside and in the UP, there just aren’t enough homes for growing families.”