Home Start Initiative, a plan for cooperative living near the site of the Ampersee homeless encampment, hopes to be sustainable, correct injustices, and give women and children shelter. But they need $4 million.
A group of Kalamazoo landlords talk about their role in creating and maintaining affordable housing in an economic environment where their costs are rising.
The City of Kalamazoo has begun to transform major arterial roads into city streets. We hear from traffic engineer Dennis Randolph and City Planner Christina Anderson about the how and why, and go for a ride with transportation engineer/non-motorized activist Dustin Black to get the pros and cons of the new Westnedge and Park.
Through city and federal grants, and cost-saving measures, a local landlord keeps rent low, provides housing security, and hopes to make a small dent in Kalamazoo's housing crisis. Jake Tardani's been called a landlord with a mission.
The Gun Violence Resource and Resilience Rallies in Kalamazoo bring in people to learn about resources in not only prevention of gun violence, but to help those directly and indirectly impacted by it.
"In my experience, and in the experience of lots of artists that I know, a critique night is a fun, relaxed kind of thing where we can come together and show each other our work, and get feedback on that," Ellen Nelson, event organizer, says. The Vine neighborhood has a lot of creativity because it is fostered there, she adds.
Kalamazoo Collective Housing will open two new houses in the fall and is currently accepting applications.
The events get rolling Wednesday, June 1. The 71st Annual Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Fair will be back at Bronson Park. Art on the Mall will be back and bigger on the Kalamazoo Mall on June 4. The Do-Dah Parade will be do-dah-ing along downtown roads that day. And everyone will be showing their pride in person at the Arcadia Creek Festival Place for Kalamazoo Pride 2022. Concerts in the Park and Beats On Bates -- which were in-person last year -- will be back, too.
With National Endowment for the Arts funding, Kalamazoo Book Arts Center creates a letterpress book, "Truth Comes Slowly," featuring linoleum cut illustrations by Mary Proenza and a short story from Los Angeles writer Jervey Tervalon about his family's involvement in a moment of gun violence when he was a child, plus other projects.
A panel discussion on Environmental Justice and Housing Stock in Kalamazoo County: Location, Equity of Cost, Energy Efficiency, Support Services, with community housing advocates was recently hosted by the League of Women Voters. Second Wave's Mark Wedel was there.
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