Housing North

10/07/2026

📣 The Draft Agenda is HERE! The Northwest Michigan Housing Summit is getting closer, and we’re excited to give you a first look at what’s ahead! 🙌

While we’re still making a few final adjustments to the details, the heart of the Summit is set: the sessions, speakers, ideas, and conversations that will bring our region’s housing community together.

From practical tools and innovative approaches to policy, development, investment, and collaboration, this year’s agenda is all about learning from one another and finding new ways to move housing forward across Northwest Michigan.

👀 Take a look at the draft agenda, find the conversations you want to be part of, and make your plans to join us!

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The agenda is taking shape. Now we just need you in the room.

10/06/2026

What’s really standing between a housing project and a finished home?

Sometimes, it’s not one big obstacle, it’s the accumulation of smaller ones.

Permit fees. Long review timelines. Staffing shortages. Financing challenges. Inspection delays. Unclear or inconsistent requirements. Each can add time, cost, and uncertainty to getting much-needed homes built.

At the 2026 Northwest Michigan Housing Summit, we’re digging into those challenges—and, more importantly, what communities can do about them.

📍 The Hidden Barriers to Attainable Housing: Local Strategies to Overcome Costs and Delays

Join Ariana Dawes of the Home Builders Association of Michigan, alongside the Home Builders Association of Northwest Michigan, for a conversation about creating a more transparent, predictable path from project approval to homes on the ground and people housed.

10/06/2026

10/02/2026

🏠 What if we could build more homes faster without sacrificing quality, design, or access to traditional financing?

At the 2026 Northwest Michigan Housing Summit, we’re exploring CrossMod homes, an innovative approach to manufactured housing that combines the speed and cost advantages of offsite construction with the look, permanent foundation, financing options, and appraisal potential of site-built homes.

Join our expert panel:

🎤 John D. Lindley, IOM
President & CEO, Michigan Manufactured Housing Association

🎤 Justin Ibe
Managing Partner, Creek Valley Properties, LLC

They’ll break down how CrossMod homes work, where they fit in today’s housing market, and how they could become another valuable tool for expanding single-family housing options in our communities.

📍 Hagerty Center | Traverse City
📅 October 26–27, 2026

🎟️ Registration is open. Save your seat and be part of the conversation.

https://webforms.eleoonline.com/FormDatas/143/3c1183f4-6363-4c12-9a14-39c938352b34

09/30/2026

"For housing advocates, the practical response is preparation rather than prediction. Continue working on good policy. Maintain relationships with legislators from both parties. Keep educating policymakers about the realities facing rural communities. Have proposals ready if an opportunity develops—and recognize that some issues may ultimately carry into the next legislative session."

Predicting what the Michigan legislature will do next is rarely easy. In an election year, under divided government, it can be nearly impossible. That mak…

09/30/2026

https://www.harborlightnews.com/articles/northwest-michigan-housing-summit-set-for-oct-26-27-in-traverse-city/

The annual Northwest Michigan Housing Summit hosted by Housing North is returning in its twelfth year to Traverse City October 26-27, bringing together housing professionals, community leaders, developers, financial institutions, local and state offi... Please subscribe to the Harbor Light News or l...

09/29/2026

🏗️ Great housing ideas don’t build themselves. Moving from a promising site or concept to actual construction takes coordination, problem-solving, and the right people at the table.

At the Northwest Michigan Housing Summit, join Kevin Endres to hear about collaborating to Break Ground on Housing Development. Come hear from the people doing the work, learn what gets projects unstuck, and take home strategies that can help move more housing from concept to concrete.

Register here: https://webforms.eleoonline.com/FormDatas/143/3c1183f4-6363-4c12-9a14-39c938352b34

📅 October 26–27
📍 Hagerty Center | Traverse City

09/28/2026

Meet Carolyn!

Learn more of the leader walking Housing North forward!

Carolyn Fairman joined Traverse City-based nonprofit Housing North as their new executive director as of late spring 2026. Housing North is a 501(c)(3) or…

09/28/2026

The countdown is on! ⏳

The Northwest Michigan Housing Summit is getting closer, and now is the time to make sure you’re part of the conversation.

Housing challenges affect every corner of our region—and progress happens when the people with ideas, experience, resources, and a commitment to action come together.

📅 October 26–27
📍 Traverse City

Read more about what’s ahead, then save your seat. Be in the room. Be part of the conversation. Help move housing forward.

Northwest Michigan’s housing shortage affects nearly every part of our communities. Limited inventory and rising costs have made it increasingly difficult for people who work here to find homes they

09/22/2026

What if local dollars could help move local projects forward? 🏘️

At the Northwest Michigan Housing Summit, Derek Shiels of Invest MItt will lead a conversation on the Community Investment Fund and how community investment models can connect local capital and resources with projects that respond to the priorities of our communities.

Come explore another way communities can turn local resources into local impact and what that could mean for housing and development across Northwest Michigan.

📅 October 26–27
📍 Hagerty Center, Traverse City
🎟️ Register today and join the conversation.