LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - The city of Lansing is proposing a new plan to address its ongoing struggle with homelessness.

Controversy has been stirring over the city’s plans to try and move a homeless encampment on the north side of Lansing; now, officials are changing gears.

Homelessness has been a difficult hurdle to overcome, both for the city and its unhoused residents. There is another plan in the works to help people without a place to go, and it includes temporary housing pods.

“Our hopes are to develop a ModPod community, one that would consist of 50 ModPods that would sleep about 66 people,” said Kimberly Coleman, Director of the Lansing Department of Human Relations and Community Services.

The pods would be a collection of easy-to-construct tiny homes, each one no larger than 20

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