Fee for Service Activities

Technical Support

 

Housing North, in its mission to remove barriers to housing development and solutions also offers technical support, expertise, and fee-for-service activities for our communities in Northwest Michigan. We have several ways to engage with our staff and experts in the field to help make your community Housing Ready and bring local resources and tools for housing. We can help provide strategic guidance for your organization’s or community housing activities and help coordinate or facilitate development projects. 

WHAT SERVICES CAN HOUSING NORTH PROVIDE?

  • Strategic guidance for your community around housing and facilitating the process to become housing reading including:

    • Going through the Housing Ready Checklist

    • Assisting with zoning changes

    • Creating housing action plans & implementation support for your organization

    • Creating a Housing opportunity map

    • Coordinating the process for a request for qualifications or request for proposals for housing projects

  • Support is one of the critical components of achieving housing goals. To that end, Housing North leads coordination meetings and facilitates with stakeholders to identify partners, funds, and opportunities for support with activities like:

    • Facilitating community meetings

    • Community Mapping

    • Work sessions with developers, employers, State agencies and partners

    • Housing Public Engagement

  • A Housing Action Plan aims to assess needs, identify development constraints and limitations in the community, assess local implementation capacity, and identify community housing goals and strategies to address housing needs. Depending on the needs of your community, Housing North assists in:

    • Identifying priority housing needs and current housing stock

    • Facilitating community education on the issues through forums, community visioning sessions, interviews, and focus groups on housing needs and opportunities

    • Conducting an inventory of properties/land potentially suitable for housing placement

    • Identification and establishment of available resources, funding opportunities

    • Implementation plan based on goals, identified resources, and existing capacity

To learn more about our fee-for-service activities in a one-pager, please click here. If you are interested in a service not highlighted on this page or would like to discuss options, fees, or services for your community, please contact our Executive Director, Yarrow Brown at yarrow@housingnorth.org.

 Fee for Service Activities

  • How can Housing North help your Community?

    We can help identify roles, priorities, and strategic actions for community housing networks, local governments, and developers. These include:

    • Developing local policy guidance for local government adoption and implementation

    • Build Awareness by providing information, communications, and outreach assistance.

    • Support your local housing Networks by creating and implementing local workplans and implement priorities

  • Navigate Development Processes:

    We can assist with funding applications, investment assistance, and pro forma development and help Kickstart Housing Development in your community by working with community housing networks, local governments, and developers to identify priority sites and projects

  • Who to contact:

    To learn more about our Technical Services or how we can help in your community, call 231-335-1685 or email yarrow@housingnorth.org