GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A community of West Michigan tiny homes helped take a five-year project across the finish line.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said the goal of reaching 75,000 newly built and rehabbed housing units in Michigan was met a bit early during a ribbon cutting on Monday, Aug. 26 in Grand Rapids.

Now, the Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA) will move toward its second, ramped-up goal to rehabilitate or build 115,000 homes by September 2026.

“We thought it would take a whole other year to get there,” Whitmer said during a Monday afternoon unveiling in Grand Rapids. “We are moving fast.”

The Mel Trotter Ministries’ Hope Village project that helped the state reach its first goal was a $3.5 million, 16-unit tiny home community on 1.65 acres of land built by two Gr

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