Housing North

08/24/2026

🏡 Senior Home Share Input Session & Updates

Join the Grand Traverse County Home Share Network for a community conversation about home sharing and how it can help local seniors remain safely and comfortably in their homes while expanding affordable housing options.

We want to hear directly from local seniors about their needs, concerns, and questions around home sharing. Your input will help shape a program built around trust, safety, independence, and community connection.

📅 Thursday, September 10
⏰ 3:00–4:00 PM
📍 GTC Senior Center, 801 E. Front Street

Come learn more, ask questions, and help shape the future of Home Share in Grand Traverse County.

📧 Questions? [email protected]

08/21/2026

Taking time to reflect, reconnect, and plan for what’s ahead. 💡 Our team recently came together to look closely at what we do, how we do it, and how we can do it even better.

It was a chance to step outside the day-to-day, celebrate what’s working, learn from one another, and identify where we can strengthen our approach and our impact.

Because doing good work also means continuously asking how we can better serve our communities, our partners, our donors, and everyone who supports and believes in our mission. 💙

08/14/2026

“The main takeaway from the first month is that over 75 percent of our respondents recognize [housing] is a very major problem,” says Bob Johnson, who is representing the Sleeping Bear Gateways Council in the Leelanau Housing Collaborative.

When members of the Leelanau Housing Collaborative launched a survey last month to “help local leaders understand what the community supports when it comes to attainable, year-round housing,” they weren’t sure what to expect. Now those same housing advocates are feeling emboldened, because ear...

08/12/2026

🐦 EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION IS OPEN!

The 2026 Northwest Michigan Housing Summit is coming this fall! Join us for two days of connection, learning, and action as we bring together the people working to move housing forward across Northwest Michigan.

📅 When: October 26–27, 2026
📍 Where: Hagerty Center | Traverse City, MI
🎟️ Early Bird Deadline: September 18

This year’s theme, Forward Together: Turning Vision into Action, is all about building on our region’s momentum and turning great ideas into real housing solutions.

Register early, save your seat, and be part of the conversation!

🔗 Registration + Summit details: housingnorth.org/nwm-housing-summit

Full-price registration begins September 19. The full Summit agenda is coming soon, stay tuned!

08/03/2026

https://upnorthlive.com/news/local/98-unit-bellaire-lofts-will-offer-income-based-rents-for-workforce-housing

ANTRIM COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- A new housing development coming to Antrim County is looking to serve what one organization refers to as the 'missing middl

07/31/2026

Meet our new Executive Director, Carolyn Fairman! 👋

Since joining Housing North, Carolyn has been asked one question more than any other: "What's your goal?"

Her answer is simple: "I'm listening."

Over the past several weeks, Carolyn has been traveling across northwest Lower Michigan, meeting with community leaders, partners, residents, and organizations to better understand each community's unique housing story.

Because no two communities are the same and neither are their housing needs.

At Housing North, we believe the best solutions are built together. Read Carolyn's full guest column in the !

07/31/2026

Every community has its own housing story and the people who live there know it best. Our Executive Director, Carolyn Fairman, shares why listening comes first for her and how Housing North is committed to supporting locally driven solutions across Northwest Michigan. Read her latest guest column in the Record-Eagle:

Since joining Housing North, one question I’ve been asked is, “What’s your current goal?” My answer is simple: “I am listening.”

07/30/2026

One of Garfield Township's largest housing developments, Ridge45 – which has 484 apartments near the corner of LaFranier and Hammond roads – will be converted to workforce housing for at least 15 years after trustees unanimously approved a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) agreement for the prop....

07/22/2026

07/22/2026

https://glenarborsun.com/leelanau-residents-workers-encouraged-to-take-housing-survey/

The Leelanau County Housing Collaborative, an effort of the Leelanau Peninsula Economic Foundation, and its partner organizations are inviting residents, workers, employers, and community members t…