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Lansing purchased 50 modular homes to address homelessness, with plans to have them available by next summer.
The program aims to provide both rapid rehousing and transitional housing for adults, including those with special needs.
LANSING — A set of 50 modular homes purchased by the city of Lansing could be available to homeless people starting next summer, as plans for a city-funded community for the unhoused begin to take shape.
The plan is a great start, said Kitty Henry and LaSandra Jones, two of about 70 people who came to the Foster Community Center on Aug. 26 to help shape the city’s modular home policy.
Fifty homes are sorely needed, they said, but more would be better.
Kim Coleman, Lansing’s director of Human Relations and Community Services, hosted a me