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Released Michigan’s first Statewide Housing Plan, outlining goals and strategies to tackle the state’s affordable and attainable housing crisis.  

·  In her 2024 State of the State Address, she announced that the State of Michigan will make the largest investment to build housing in Michigan history, nearly $1.4 billion to build or rehabilitate nearly 10,000 homes. 

·  Signed a bipartisan supplemental investing $275 million to build and refurbish thousands of affordable housing units, revitalize communities, and address blight.  

·  Secured a sustainable funding source for the Housing and Community Development Fund, to meet affordable, attainable housing needs for working-class families.  

·  Secured a sustainable funding source for Revitalization and Placemaking Grants, used to make communities more attractive places to live and work by building housing.  

·  Made historic investments in the Building Michigan Together Plan to build and refurbish affordable housing units for working class families. 

·  Signed Transformational Brownfield legislation to power economic development and finance affordable housing in communities across Michigan. 

·  Helped thousands of families buy homes through the Down Payment Assistance Program and MI Home Loan Mortgage Programs.  

·  Helped tens of thousands of families stay in their homes and prevent foreclosure with the funding from the Michigan Homeowners Assistance