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House Manistee!

An initiative to ensure attainable housing for all!

Manistee County

Population is growing older, not attracting younger talent, household size is decreasing, increasing demand for 1-2 bedroom units, a lack of availability forces people to buy/pay for housing that is too expensive for them. Cash poor! Or they live somewhere else!

In 2014:

• Median homeowner income

was about $46,000. Might be able to afford a home valued at $116,000. The median home value in the County was $124,000.

• Median rental income was

$22,000 can afford a rent of about $557. The median rents in the County was $627.

Jim Reithel, Vice President

• f Operations at Martin

Marietta Manistee

“As we try to attract and retain professionals, especially younger folks and ones with young families, it feels like they may have to look alternatively at Ludington and surrounding out of County communities to find housing

• ptions that will meet their needs.”

Survey: Questions

• How many homeless people are there in

MC?

• What is the waiting list for rentals?
• How many homes are on the market in a

lower price range?

• How do we get affordable housing for

renters and buyers?

• We need more information for planning

purposes so that we can make better zoning ordinance changes.

• Why do people live outside the County but

work within the County?

• What is the best mix of housing choices

for a community our size?

• How do we build good quality affordable

housing for the people who live in MC considering their income and age?

• Can we employ and train people to build

homes – a trade program?

• How can we house our population of

people who have substance abuse issues?

• How do I develop land that I own for a

small affordable housing project?

• How can we incentivize development?
• How can we remove regulatory barriers?
• How can we break through the

misunderstanding about “those” people who live in housing that received incentives to build and live within?

Survey: Thoughts on Barriers

• Median pay scale is not enough to support

housing development in any form.

• Impact of taxes on multi-family rents.
• Lack of good paying jobs.
• Lack of training to work with developers.
• Not enough rental for transitional workers
• r people who want to rent before they

buy.

• Unfinished second floors in the City of

Manistee.

• Public officials who don’t understand the

need, how to work with developers, or how to put together a “deal”.

• No incentives.
• Developing and/or securing the funds to

build is complex and most don’t know how to do it.

• Unrealistic expectations of where and

what housing is available in the City of Manistee or the rest of the County.

• Price of building.
• Finding investors and the LUG are

frustrated with them.

• No solid plan.
• Cost of land in a suitable location.
• Restrictions imposed.
• Receptiveness and support for change.

2018 is the year of doing something about Housing!

Did you know?

$13.19 is the hourly wage needed in order to earn enough to afford an average rental in NW Michigan.

Introducing House Manistee

Coordinated by AES, House Manistee will be the driving force in ensuring that people who either currently live, or want to live, in Manistee County have access to attainable housing. House Manistee will focus on new and existing housing.

Who?

All of us:

➔ Our Workforce ➔ All Income Levels ➔ Seasonal and Year

Round

➔ Children and Seniors ➔ Homeless and

Disenfranchised

Debra Greenacre, Manistee County Library Executive Director

What will we be talking about?

• Aattainability for all income

levels

• Quality, safe, and accessible

housing

• Rental needs and issues
• Educational needs for

homeowners, landlords, developers, government, community partners and other stakeholders

• Vacancies and foreclosures
• Young professionals/workforce
• Senior housing needs
• Permanent, transitional, and

shelter housing

• Coordinating and collaborating

with existing housing programs and resources

• Creating new programming?

What’s the plan?

Collaboration:

Working together, on projects that are coordinated, to achieve the common goal of ensuring attainable housing for all.

House Manistee Vision:

There is attainable housing for all people who live, or want to live, in Manistee County

Sign Up! Form working groups

Education, Data & Outreach

Understand and communicate where the critical need is in order to strategically target resources and achieve public consensus.

Studies & Analysis!

2014 Manistee County Housing Inventory & Target Market Analysis United Way ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) Report

.

Education, Data & Outreach

Work to attract developers. Work with media to print regular column on affordable housing resources Provide regular information to LUG

• n housing issues

Evaluate the need for a new housing inventory and target market analysis; determine location

Possible strategies to consider.

Planning & Policy

Coordinate and create planning & zoning tools to encourage greater housing choices and position communities to be in a state of readiness

Think

• utside the

box!

Update Zoning to allow for variety of housing types: apartments, tiny- houses, co-housing, mixed use housing. .

Planning & Policy

Work with communities to update zoning and planning to include greater mix of housing choices and locations- some may be unique housing solutions! Incentivize affordable housing in new development Allow mixed use development in commercial districts

Possible strategies to consider.

Funding & Incentives

Encourage private, public and non-profits to utilize incentives and find alternative funding sources.

Funding & Incentives

Possible strategies to consider.

Create local funding sources Work with LUG to use brownfield, DDA districts, and other avenues of TIF to incentivize the infrastructure for new housing, land, and rehab of existing housing stock. Use of PILOT

Programming

Work to help coordinate and educate about existing programming:

• to help people of all income

levels stay in their homes.

• to keep properties well kept and

habitable.

Untapped Resources?

Michigan State Housing Development Authority US Housing and Urban Development

Programming

Possible strategies to consider.

Provide regular education for landlords on rental topics and needs & other opportunities Investigate government and non- profit programming opportunities and better take advantage of their

• fferings

Enforce blight ordinances: demolish deteriorating building & rehab existing structure

Create a Goal and Strategy.

And work to implement it! In coordination and collaboration with each other

Growing Business with Workforce Housing: Partnerships

Travelers Inn, in Onekama, will house the Baker College Culinary School students who will work and learn at the restaurant at the Portage Point Inn.

US31 Corridor Plan Implementation: Filer is working to include Residential Uses in their Commercial District Zoning Regulations

Reporting success is a must.

Establish measurements- and report regularly!

Suggestions:

Outreach: survey & # of people using programs Policy: # of new zoning amendments Funding: Use of various new sources of funds

Milestones

Early 2018 Fall 2018 January 2018

1st Annual House Manistee Meeting

August 2018

Significant outreach and conversations

October 2018

Identification of each Working Group goal and strategy

November 2018

Identification of Measurements

Milestones

Early 2019 Fall 2019 January 2019

2nd Annual House Manistee Meeting: Progress Report

August 2019

Shovels in the ground projects

October 2019

Significant new planning & zoning policies implemented

November 2019

Programs identified, aligned & growing in use

Outcome!

Manistee County communities are ready to work with developers, have a great selection of housing options, and the cost of housing is affordable. There is attainable housing for ALL!

What people will be saying

“Homelessness, coach-surfing, and doubled up situations are very rare in Manistee County.” “How did Manistee attract so many new housing developers and build so many new housing projects?” “I got a new job in Manistee and easily found housing that I can afford.”

Quotes for illustration purposes only

PIT Count

Point in Time Count of the Homeless Population in Manistee County On-Line Training

http://www.nwmichcoc.com/point-in-time-pit.html Pick up resource materials for distribution at the United Way Office M-F 9am to 3pm or call to make other arrangements. If you are interested in volunteering for the actual pic count on the evening of January 31st please contact Bill Jessup at bjessup@@goodwillwm.org.

When we work together we can achieve great things!

Let’s be the leader in making meaningful progress in HOUSING!

THANK YOU

OUR economy depends on it!

Questions? tamara@latitude44.consulting

Action:

We can do this!

Sign up to be part of a Working Group? Do you have resources or knowledge that you would be willing to share and what is it? Leave your contact info. What is missing? How can we make this initiative better?