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Yahoo
05-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Boyne City seeks resident to serve on newly formed Housing Advisory Committee
BOYNE CITY — Boyne City is seeking a resident from the north side of town to join its newly formed Housing Advisory Committee, an effort designed to engage the community in ongoing housing development discussions. The city has been actively working to identify and prepare sites for potential housing developments, with a focus on North Boyne and the Community Garden site. The city has already taken several steps to address local housing challenges, including an inventory of city-owned properties, feasibility studies, zoning adjustments and issuing a request for qualifications to attract developers. Now, as the city moves toward selecting a development proposal, officials want to ensure community voices are included in the decision-making process. Subscribe: Get all your breaking news and unlimited access to our local coverage Mayor Tim Nemecek emphasized the importance of community involvement, particularly in light of previous public opposition to proposed developments. "The community says they want housing, so we need to create the platform for them to tell us where they want to see that housing, what type of housing they want and what kind of development they support," Nemecek said. The Housing Advisory Committee will include two city commissioners — Nemecek and commissioner Sandy Pritchard — along with city administration officials, planning and zoning representatives and a housing expert from Housing North. The committee will not have decision-making power but will serve in an advisory capacity, gathering information and making recommendations to the city commission. One of the committee's first tasks will be to evaluate the two development proposals currently under consideration. These proposals include different financial structures, such as Brownfield Redevelopment incentives, which were recently expanded in Michigan to support housing projects. Interested residents who live in a surrounding neighborhood on the north side of Boyne City and have an interest in local housing issues are encouraged to apply. The city is seeking individuals who are willing to share ideas and perspectives in informal committee meetings. Applications can be obtained via the city's website at The completed forms must be sent to City Clerk and Treasurer Jessica Puroll at jpuroll@ or dropped off at city hall by 4:30 p.m. on March 12. — Contact reporter Annie Doyle at 231-675-0099 and adoyle@ This article originally appeared on The Petoskey News-Review: Boyne City seeks resident for slot on new Housing Advisory Committee
Boston Globe
06-02-2025
- Business
- Boston Globe
Mass. must build 222,000 homes over the next decade to rein in housing costs, state says
Building the needed homes will not be easy. Advertisement 'The primary factor contributing to the state's housing crisis is that there are not enough homes to meet the needs of people living here,' the report said. 'For more than two decades, Massachusetts' growth in housing demand has outpaced additional supply, resulting in low vacancies and intense demand for the homes that are available.' The figure was developed by the Healey administration's newly-formed Housing Advisory Committee as part of the state's first comprehensive housing plan, and encapsulates the projected number of homes that will be needed by 2035 to accommodate the state's existing population, newly formed households by younger people who are seeking homes for the first time, and people who move here. Workers at an apartment building under construction in Revere in 2023. David L. Ryan/Globe Staff The committee, along with researchers at the UMass Donahue Institute, assumed modest population growth over the next decade when calculating the projection. But even if the state's population remains flat, Massachusetts would still need to build some 73,000 homes over that period to account for existing demand and newly formed Gen Z and Millennial households. If the state were to build 222,000 homes by 2030, it would ease the immense pressure on the housing market, the advisory committee said in a report Thursday. But it would not solve the housing problem altogether. The state's public housing portfolio is still at risk of losing units, and many homes are at growing risk of flooding due to climate change, the report found. Advertisement And the report did not specifically account for the need for housing that's affordable to lower-income households. It did identify a set of strategies to help fill the supply shortage and maintain the state's existing housing stock. The state should continue to simplify zoning rules to make it easier to build, and identify state-owned parcels that could be developed in the short term. It should also dedicate more resources to the preservation of existing affordable housing, and streamline efforts to repair the deteriorating state public housing portfolio. Andrew Brinker can be reached at
