New Bright Side episode hosted by Scott Woosley highlights housing
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.

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Scott WoosleyIntroduction by Scott Woosley, Executive Director of MSHDA

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Start off the episode at the Michigan State Housing Development Authority’s office in Lansing.

10Grandmont Rosedale Neighborhoods, Detroit

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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.


CHN FamilyPalmer Pointe Townhomes, Pontiac

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Families overcome serious life challenges with Community Housing Network’s new supportive and affordable housing development in Pontiac.


CFHReady to Buy a Home

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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.


Home Repair ServicesHome Repair Services, Grand Rapids

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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!


Genesee CohousingGenesee Gardens Cohousing, Lansing

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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.


Quincy HavenQuincy Haven Apartments, Hancock

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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 DuleyEast Lansing Housing History, special interview with John Duley at Edgewood Village, Lansing

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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.


CreditsConclusion by Scott Woosley, Executive Director of MSHDA

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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.