KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Kalamazoo city commissioners have approved spending $1.2 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding to build new shelters for homeless families.
Where and when it will be built is still undecided, but they hope to use the funding to leverage money from the county housing millage and other sources to come to the aid of a growing and troubling sub-group in the houseless population.
Community Development manager Sherilyn Parsons says it’s a multi-government and agency effort to address a growing need.
Commissioner Qianna Decker says the need is real and urgent.
For the area’s poor, it can’t happen soon enough, given the current housing crisis here and nationwide.
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