Michigan Municipal League and Michigan Economic Development Corporation recently released an encore production, The Missing Middle Mixtape: More Pattern Book Homes for 21st Century Michigan, which includes four new housing designs.
The Michigan Housing Pattern Book – A State-Wide Approach for Addressing the Housing Crisis
GOPC, Housing Advocates Recommends Proposed Changes To 'Single Family Tax Credit' Rules
On December 7, GOPC and other Housing Advocates presented recommendations for ways to improve the proposed rules for the new Ohio Single Family Housing Tax Credit, a new state program that would invest $50 million per year over four years, to develop new single-family housing across the state.
Manufactured? Modular? Pre-fab? The 101 on Factory-Built Housing.
GOPC Testifies Before Senate Select Housing Committee
GOPC Releases Multi-Year Strategic Housing Plan for Springfield
Greater Ohio Policy Center (GOPC) has released a multi-year strategic housing plan for Springfield. Quality Housing for All: A Four-Year Strategic Plan for Springfield provides community leaders with a roadmap to address current and future housing needs in Springfield. Community leaders have elevated housing as a communitywide priority.
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Springfield Strategic Housing Plan Underway; GOPC Completes Residential Survey for Community Engagement
The City of Springfield has contracted GOPC to assist in the facilitation and creation of a multi-year strategic plan for housing. The strategic plan will address housing of all types, for all residents, in all parts of the city. This strategic housing plan is designed to be actionable, and forward-looking to address the present and future housing needs of residents.
In April, GOPC launched a communitywide survey on ThisIsourField.Com – the city’s online engagement platform to interact with residents. More than 500 participants completed the survey, which included property owners and renters who reside in the City of Springfield.
The results of the survey will assist GOPC in the next step to create actionable recommendations and strategies for community leaders to thoughtfully plan for the current and future housing needs in Springfield. The full results of the survey will be made available on ThisIsOurField.com.
More than half of participants who completed the survey identified they are happy in their current residence; and of those searching for a new home, nearly half indicated they believe they can find it in Springfield. Participants indicated the sense of community, safety, and good location as indicators for quality of neighborhoods in Springfield.
Like many other Legacy City communities in Ohio, housing cost-burden impacts Springfielders. GOPC’s research in the 2019 Comprehensive Housing Analysis identified the cost-burden to owners and renters. The April 2021 provides additional insights to GOPC on the issue of cost-burden, and the health of the market-rate and affordable housing for those who live in Springfield.
This summer, GOPC will facilitate the creation of the multi-year strategic plan for Springfield. These recommendations and strategies will be presented in late summer/early Fall to the community and Commissioners in the City.
Housing has been a top policy priority in Springfield for local leaders – both through policy implementation and in the convening of the Springfield Housing Consortium. The Housing Consortium is a group of leaders from public, private, philanthropic, and financial institutions who are working together to address the housing needs of Springfield’s residents.
