Michigan lawmakers awarded $15 million to a nonprofit organization to build housing for workers in the Upper Peninsula, but some of the money has benefited a project offering apartments that will cost as much as $2,900 a month and is led by a developer who helped to found the group.

As part of a $1 billion spending spree on grants in the state budget, the Legislature wrote 64 words in 2022 to direct an appropriation to InvestUP, a Marquette-based group that had formed five years earlier and never raised more than $1.5 million in a year.

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