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July 14, 2025
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New MSHDA Guide Aims to Help Local Communities ‘Get Housing Ready!’
State offers new playbook with action steps to support housing development
LANSING, Mich. – The Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA) is pleased to share the Get Housing Ready Guide, a new resource designed to help local and regional leaders take immediate, meaningful steps to attract housing development and investment.
The guide offers a menu of actionable strategies that have proven successful. The goal is to help Michigan’s local governments remove barriers, add resources, and expand capacity in their community to help support housing growth.
“The Get Housing Ready Guide is a new tool to help Michigan communities jumpstart new investment by making it easier to build housing,” said Amy Hovey, MSHDA CEO and Executive Director. “We’ve compiled a range of improvements, tools, and strategies to help local leaders in their efforts to get housing ready.”
In May, the state announced accelerated progress in building and rehabilitating more units over the last few years, but there is still a 119,000-unit shortage of homes that need to be built and rehabilitated statewide.
The Get Housing Ready Guide includes sections on property inventory and transparency, policy improvements, financial tools, building public support, education on development realities, and streamlining infrastructure and approvals. Leaders are encouraged to adapt these ideas to fit their community’s unique needs.
"Municipalities appreciate the state's continued investment in building capacity at the local level with a guide that promotes local decision making and assists to remove regulatory barriers to expand housing options based on a community’s unique local environment," said Jennifer Rigterink, Assistant Director, State & Federal Affairs with the Michigan Municipal League. "These actions will support economic growth and development and provide more Michiganders access to safe, affordable places to call home."
This new guide follows the Housing Readiness Incentive Grant Program, an $8.3 million commitment by MSHDA to support local units of government by covering costs associated with making policy changes that increase housing supply and affordability. MSHDA awarded 188 grants to cities, villages, townships, and counties across the state before the program closed.
Following the success of that program, agency staff prepared the Get Housing Ready Guide to continue broadening the support the state is providing to help add resources, remove barriers, and build capacity.
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About MSHDA
The Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA), established in 1966, provides financial and technical assistance through public and private partnerships to create and preserve safe and decent affordable housing, engage in community economic development activities, develop vibrant cities, towns and villages, and address homeless issues.