Why Their Voices Matter – AYA Youth Collective
By Andy Allen, Vice President of Placement, AYA Youth Collective AYA Youth Collective (AYA) is a non-profit organization in Grand Rapids, MI that supports youth aged 14-24 who are experiencing housing insecurity. Everything AYA does is built upon, centered around, and imagined through the voices, opinions, and criticism of young people with lived experience who […]
HSA Summary – June 2024
HOUSING STABILITY ALLIANCE June 2024 Meeting Summary and Network Next Steps The Housing Stability Alliance (HSA) gathered in person on June 14, 2024. Goals included: 1) a review of the Data Dashboard and receiving feedback from service providers on how they are integrating it into their work, 2) sharing the System Pathways to Housing Stability […]
Data Dashboard Shows Racial Disparity in Kent County Housing Crisis | WZZM
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — A new data dashboard from Housing Kent visualizes the housing crisis in Kent County, aiming to bring awareness to the issue and potential solutions. One particular statistic sticks out: the racial disparities in homeownership. The graph shows the homeownership rate for white residents in Kent County is 76%. For Black residents, […]
Housing Kent Releases their Dashboard for the Community to Access | The Shelley Irwin Show
Alex Kontras and Eureka People share the state of housing in West Michigan. Housing Kent releases their Dashboard for the community to access and get involved, talking today with Alex Kontras and Eureka People who share the state of housing in West Michigan. Listen to the Full Interview
New Data Dashboard Visualizes Housing Crisis in Kent County | WZZM
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 2024 — The housing sector backbone organization, Housing Kent, provides decision-makers, policy leaders, and community members with an unprecedented data dashboard that reflects the rising unaffordability of housing throughout Kent County. The dashboard, the first of its kind, is open to all Kent County residents and targets key performance indicators (KPIs) including homeownership affordability, rental affordability, homelessness, and equity. You can […]
Need for More Affordable Housing Highlighted in New Data Dashboard | MLive
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A new data dashboard from the group Housing Kent highlights key performance indicators in the housing market and shows what the group calls the “rising unaffordability of housing throughout Kent County.” A host of data points, including home ownership affordability, rental affordability and homelessness, are included in the dashboard, which can […]
Nonprofit Creates Housing Affordability Dashboard | West Michigan News Pop
Housing Kent, a nonprofit that supports the work of the Housing Stability Alliance’s network of 130 individuals and organizations, has created a housing affordability index to track the health of Kent County’s housing system. The first-of-its-kind dashboard is available to all Kent County residents and reports on homeownership and rental housing affordability, homelessness, and equity. […]
A Look at Housing Affordability in Kent County | eightWest
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) – A few months ago, we introduced you to Housing Kent, a local organization that aims to increase affordable housing, dissolve homelessness and eliminate the racial disparities in housing. They recently came out with their data dashboard highlighting the rising unaffordability of housing throughout Kent County. Eureka People, president of Housing […]
Researchers Find Widening Gap as Housing Costs Outpace Wage Growth in Kent County | Crain’s
Researchers at a Kent County nonprofit have pulled together new data that paint a bleak picture of housing affordability, or lack thereof, for the average worker in Kent County. Grand Rapids-based Housing Kent on March 28 rolled out a metric library based on regional and national data on wages and home prices. Read the Full […]
The New Housing Reality
“To really thrive, you have to have everybody. The vibrancy of the city (of Grand Rapids) is the attraction. It shouldn’t be available only to certain people. It’s not accessible for everyone.” In an NBC News story from July 21, 2023, Diana Olick reported that growing home prices nationwide are pricing new homeowners out of […]