Homelessness

The city of Lansing last month approved the purchase and storage of 50 modular housing units called ModPods for $640,000 from a Kalamazoo nonprofit that had given up plans to use them in that community

Mel Trotter Ministries celebrates the completion of the first of 16 tiny homes, a new concept to address the needs of homeless people in the area

Wolverine Building Group will meet up with young farmers from the Kent County Youth Fair to deliver fresh food to three local nonprofit organizations

Despite community pushback, a faith-based nonprofit supporting the unhoused in northwest Grand Rapids is expanding services to the Leonard Street corridor

Cherry Health broke ground on an innovative affordable housing community in Wyoming

Like much of the Midwest, Grand Rapids is experiencing an intense heat wave, conditions dangerous for the city’s unhoused, but cooling centers are helping.

A planned move to a larger space by a non-profit ministry serving the area’s homeless population has been delayed awaiting approval from the Grand Rapids Planning Commission

We talk to Chris Palusky about the event.

Around 400 guests are expected to attend this year’s Easter meal

Lil Kaplan and Ally Stephens join us