| CEDAM is excited to announce the first episode of The Bright Side this year, hosted by MSHDA’s Executive Director Scott Woosley, featuring a number of CEDAM members and their housing developments and resources. Members this time around include Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation (Detroit), Community Housing Network (Troy), Center for Financial Health (Lansing), Home Repair Services (Grand Rapids), Hancock Housing Commission (Hancock) and Edgewood Village (East Lansing). See what’s featured below! The episode goes out to cable stations statewide in the next few weeks. |
 Introduction by Scott Woosley, Executive Director of MSHDA
Start off the episode at the Michigan State Housing Development Authority’s office in Lansing. |
 Grandmont Rosedale Neighborhoods, Detroit
There’s no telling what you may find if you move into a home renovated by the Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation. Visit homes of all shapes and sizes in this group of five Detroit neighborhoods. |
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Families overcome serious life challenges with Community Housing Network’s new supportive and affordable housing development in Pontiac. |
The Center for Financial Health holds free in-person homebuyer workshops every month. They also provide housing, foreclosure and reverse mortgage counseling. If you can’t attend the class in person, you can take it online for $25 at eHome America. To find a housing or foreclosure counselor near you, go to MSHDA’s online counselor locator here. |
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Every week Home Repair Services in Grand Rapids holds free classes about home repair and maintenance in English and Spanish. They even have a repair team that can help with critical repair needs or help make your home more energy efficient! |
Take a tour of a retrofit cohousing community in Lansing! At the end of a dead end street, this group of cohousers shares one community house and a community garden that was once a jumble of fences and paved lots behind four houses. |
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These handicap accessible apartments reserved for people with disabilities are actually attached to another apartment building called Lakeview Manor, which is made of affordable apartments for seniors and low-income residents. |
John Duley has lived through some drastic changes in housing in the Greater Lansing area, spanning protests against discriminatory housing practices, to a visit with Dr. Martin Luther King, to the foundation of Edgewood Village. He is the founder of the Greater Lansing Housing Coalition, the Closing the Digital Gap program and was a key person in the development of MSU’s STEP Program. |
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Episode ending, credits and outtakes. If you are looking for housing resources like down payment assistance, home improvement loans, foreclosure help, tax credits for developers, etc, visit michigan.gov/mshda. |
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Palmer Pointe Townhomes, Pontiac
Ready to Buy a Home
Home Repair Services, Grand Rapids
Genesee Gardens Cohousing, Lansing
Quincy Haven Apartments, Hancock
East Lansing Housing History, special interview with John Duley at Edgewood Village, Lansing
Conclusion by Scott Woosley, Executive Director of MSHDA