House Manistee! An initiative to ensure attainable housing for all!
Manistee In 2014: County ● Median homeowner income was about $46,000. Might be Population is growing older, not able to afford a home valued at attracting younger talent, $116,000. The median home household size is value in the County was decreasing, increasing $124,000. demand for 1-2 bedroom ● Median rental income was units, a lack of availability $22,000 can afford a rent of forces people to buy/pay for about $557. The median rents housing that is too in the County was $627. expensive for them. Cash poor! Or they live somewhere else!
Jim Reithel, Vice President of 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 options that will meet their needs.”
Survey: Questions ● ● How many homeless people are there in How do we build good quality affordable MC? housing for the people who live in MC ● What is the waiting list for rentals? considering their income and age? ● ● How many homes are on the market in a Can we employ and train people to build homes – a trade program? lower price range? ● ● How do we get affordable housing for How can we house our population of renters and buyers? people who have substance abuse ● We need more information for planning issues? ● purposes so that we can make better How do I develop land that I own for a zoning ordinance changes. small affordable housing project? ● ● Why do people live outside the County but How can we incentivize development? ● work within the County? How can we remove regulatory barriers? ● ● What is the best mix of housing choices How can we break through the misunderstanding about “those” people for a community our size? who live in housing that received incentives to build and live within?
Survey: Thoughts on Barriers ● ● Median pay scale is not enough to support No incentives. ● housing development in any form. Developing and/or securing the funds to ● build is complex and most don’t know how Impact of taxes on multi-family rents. ● Lack of good paying jobs. to do it. ● ● Lack of training to work with developers. Unrealistic expectations of where and ● Not enough rental for transitional workers what housing is available in the City of or people who want to rent before they Manistee or the rest of the County. ● buy. Price of building. ● ● Unfinished second floors in the City of Finding investors and the LUG are Manistee. frustrated with them. ● Public officials who don’t understand the ● No solid plan. ● need, how to work with developers, or how Cost of land in a suitable location. to put together a “deal”. ● 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 Vacancies and foreclosures ● levels Young professionals/workforce ● ● Quality, safe, and accessible Senior housing needs ● housing Permanent, transitional, and ● Rental needs and issues shelter housing ● ● Educational needs for Coordinating and collaborating homeowners, landlords, with existing housing programs developers, government, and resources ● community partners and other Creating new programming? stakeholders
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 Studies & strategically target resources and Analysis! achieve public consensus. 2014 Manistee County Housing Inventory & Target Market Analysis United Way ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) Report .
Work to attract developers. Work with media to print regular column on affordable housing Education, Data resources Provide regular information to LUG & Outreach on housing issues Possible strategies to Evaluate the need for a new consider. housing inventory and target market analysis; determine location
Planning & Policy Coordinate and create planning Think & zoning tools to encourage outside the greater housing choices and box! position communities to be in a Update Zoning to state of readiness allow for variety of housing types: apartments, tiny- houses, co-housing, mixed use housing. .
Work with communities to update zoning and planning to include greater mix of housing choices and Planning & locations- some may be unique housing solutions! Policy Incentivize affordable housing in new development Possible strategies to Allow mixed use development in consider. commercial districts
Funding & Incentives Encourage private, public and non-profits to utilize incentives and find alternative funding sources.
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 Funding & existing housing stock. Incentives Use of PILOT Possible strategies to consider.
Programming Work to help coordinate and educate about existing programming : ● to help people of all income Untapped levels stay in their homes. Resources? ● to keep properties well kept and Michigan State Housing Development Authority habitable. US Housing and Urban Development
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 offerings Programming Enforce blight ordinances: demolish Possible strategies to deteriorating building & rehab consider. 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- Suggestions: and report Outreach: survey & # of people using programs Policy: # of new zoning regularly! amendments Funding: Use of various new sources of funds
Milestones January 2018 October 2018 1st Annual House Identification of each Manistee Meeting Working Group goal and strategy Early 2018 Fall 2018 August 2018 November 2018 Significant outreach and Identification of conversations Measurements
Milestones January 2019 October 2019 2nd Annual House Significant new planning & Manistee Meeting: zoning policies Progress Report implemented Early 2019 Fall 2019 August 2019 November 2019 Shovels in the ground Programs identified, projects 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 “How did Manistee “I got a new job in “Homelessness, attract so many Manistee and coach-surfing, and new housing easily found doubled up developers and housing that I can situations are very afford.” build so many new rare in Manistee housing projects?” County.” 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! Action: We can do this! Questions? tamara@latitude44.consulting
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