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Midtown Center sits in the heart of Holland's historic district and has become an anchor for mental health services.

A West Michigan nonprofit is working to help make housing more affordable for people in Holland

The goal to bring housing units that are affordable to a local community is quite common these days.

A housing development in Holland is looking to provide housing for the missing middle.

An entire affordable housing “pocket neighborhood” is set to be built in Holland.

Lakeshore Habitat for Humanity partnered with Jubilee Ministries to construct 42 single-family units, 18 houses and 24 townhouses, at 285 W. 36th Street.

The lack of affordable housing in Holland remains a serious problem, local experts agreed in a city-sponsored series this week. And the impact stretches into all sectors.

The Holland City Council on Wednesday approved financial aid for a "mixed-income" pocket neighborhood of 10 homes, a project of Lakeshore Habitat for Humanity and Jubilee Ministries.

"Two nonprofit organizations are partnering to build a new kind of neighborhood in Holland — designed from the outset to be affordable to lower-income families and to promote setting down roots through homeownership."

"In a packed agenda, the Holland City Council rezoned land at the end of 36th Street to make way for an affordable housing development, approved temporary no-wake measures on Lake Macatawa and codified its program for short-term rentals in residential neighborhoods on Wednesday."

A pocket neighborhood planned by Lakeshore Habitat for Humanity and Jubilee Ministries on the wooded acreage at the end of 36th Street received initial approval from the Holland Planning Commission Tuesday.

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