Housing conference on Friday, March 13
The Northwest Michigan Council of Governments and Community Housing Choices will be hosting a housing conference on Friday, March 13, at the NMC Hagerty Center in Traverse City. This will be a great opportunity for local officials, planners, housing advocates, business owners and managers, realtors, developers, service providers, and others to hear about the region’s housing needs, and how tools like land banks and housing trust funds can help meet those needs.
Sessions are scheduled for:
- Housing Needs Assessment for Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, and Leelanau Counties, 2009-2014
- Land Bank Authorities and Affordable Housing
- Changes in the Banking Industry and Their Impact on Housing
- Housing Trust Funds
- Panel Discussion: Local Housing Initiatives
- Green Homes: Can We Afford It?
- The Grand Vision: Draft Preferred Scenario and Impact on Housing
A complete agenda and registration forms are available online at www.communityhousingchoices.org.
This Grand Vision project disturbs me. We have been hearing the term "sustainable development" a lot lately. This actually is a big United Nations agenda known as "Agenda 21" and if you study this, the long term goal is to greatly reduced the population and have most of those remaining living in big cities and in high rises. Most of the country will be very limited or no human use. There will be much land confiscation. There is a video called "Understanding Sustainable Development" by Michael Shaw which can be watched for free on the internet. I just met somebody last week who had a book on this subject. I beleive she said it was a horror story about a community in Oregon which was by the same individual in charge of the Grand Vision. I am sorry I did not get the title. These projects are happening in every county in the country and are presented the same way. They make the people think that they are making the choices about the future of their communities. Don't take my word for it but do some research.