KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — More than $100 million dollars worth of homes are in the planning stages, being built or rehabilitated in Kalamazoo County, all thanks to millions in new tax dollars.
According to a MLive article on Monday, January 9, the Kalamazoo County housing millage has put more than $6.7 million into housing developments and supportive services in 2022, with plans calling for 661 units to be built, or rehabilitated.
Kalamazoo County voters passed an eight-year, 0.75-mill proposal in August 2020 to expand affordable housing, meaning a person owning a $200,000 home with a taxable value of $100,000 will an additional $75 more per year in taxes.
Kalamazoo County is the only one in Michigan to levy a housing millage, and developers are combining the money with other resources such as the city of Kalamazoo’s Foundation for Excellence grants along with federal stimulus funding from local government, to include the county itself.
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