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Residents and advocates press Washtenaw County commissioners on affordable housing, shelter and unarmed crisis response
Summary
At the board’s first meeting of the year, residents and advocates urged action on affordable housing and asked the county to consider funding a permanent Ypsilanti shelter and an unarmed crisis response program; several commissioners requested further discussions and data before committing county funds.
Several residents and a county employee used the public-comment period at Washtenaw County’s first board meeting of the year to press commissioners on affordable housing and to ask the county to respond to two Ypsilanti City Council resolutions that requested county support for a permanent shelter and an unarmed crisis response program.
Jeremy Haley, who identified himself as an Ipswich Township resident, told commissioners he recently purchased a house using a Michigan State Housing Development Authority program and said the county’s housing market “leaves nobody in between.” “You either have half $1,000,000 plus homes or you have to live in apartments,” Haley said, adding that many people beginning careers or starting families cannot find homes priced in the lower ranges.
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