KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – A new program from Integrated Services of Kalamazoo is helping homeless families find homes thanks to a $200,000 grant from the Kalamazoo County Housing Millage.
ISK has helped 61 families find a home so far and there are another 80 families that could get a home by the end of the school year.
The families that are being helped don’t meet the state definition of homeless because they are staying at hotels or with friends or relatives.
However, there are up to 700 families just in the Kalamazoo Public Schools that meet that description according to KPS homeless liaison, Robin Greymountain. She says they have plenty of families that can’t find somewhere to live “due to evictions, bad credit, or because there isn’t affordable housing available to them.”
Families have to pay a deposit and two months of rent to ISK to get a home.
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