Category: Unhoused

A building with signs reading "No One Needs To Sleep Outside"

Activists pushing for vacant properties to be used for shelter occupied an old building for over an hour.

a person sits leaning against a pillar in a public bus station

The City of Kalamazoo will spend $250K to renovate the Knights Inn motel into affordable housing.

a sign for the Kalamazoo Gospel Mission

In partnership with the city and county, the money will provide living space to help homeless people avoid COVID and the winter cold.

a person sits leaning against a pillar in a public bus station

The new tax will fund rental subsidies and affordable housing for the next 8 years.

a "now leasing" sign on the front of a building.

Millage request on November ballot is an expansion of project approved in 2015 that housed more than 500 families, officials say.

a mostly empty apartment living room

The governor’s moratorium on evictions during the pandemic ended Wednesday night raising fears of mass displacement.

a person sits leaning against a pillar in a public bus station

Kalamazoo non-profits have been paying for hotels for homeless people who would otherwise have had to stay in crowded shelters.