The door is cracked open and shining light on the complex affordable housing crisis.
Glen Lake Community Schools owns a forested 180acre property on Benzonia Trail in southern Empire Township, which the school district inherited when Empire, Maple City, Glen Arbor schools consolidated in 1955.
In the spring 2023, Rick Schanhals, a Glen Lake School Board member since 2019, inquired with the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) about the possibility of using the property for affordable housing, instead of its initial use of forestry and recreation.
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