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Whitmer outlines $2B housing plan, roads fix and permitting overhaul in State of the State
Summary
Governor Gretchen Whitmer told a joint convention of the Michigan Legislature that her priorities for 2025 are lowering costs, creating jobs and delivering measurable results, proposing a $2 billion housing investment, permitting and licensing reforms, road funding solutions and measures on education, health and workforce training.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer delivered the 2025 State of the State address to a joint convention of the Michigan Senate and House on Feb. 26, outlining a three-part agenda: lower costs, create jobs and secure measurable results.
Whitmer said the administration will "invest $2,000,000,000 to build, buy, or fix nearly 11,000 homes," and called attention to a statewide housing shortfall she said is about 140,000 homes. "We gotta build, baby, build," Whitmer said, urging a large housing innovation investment she said would create more than 10,000 construction jobs.
The governor framed roads, permitting and licensing reform as central to both cost reduction and job creation. She said Rebuilding Michigan, the existing $3.5 billion bond plan, was always a short-term fix and warned of a funding cliff when that program phases out. "A long-term fix…
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