In preparation for a Jan. 8 housing workshop, Housing North interviewed several Leelanau County community members. When asked about the lack of available homes, Kevin Murphy, co-owner of New Bohemian Café in Northport, said he worried the county would soon be filled with many beautiful homes with no one living in them, like the Anytown, USA, shooting location in Hollywood.
“If this community, like many others, becomes a movie set that is nothing but a bunch of things that look like houses but are actually hotel rooms, then it’s no longer a community,” Murphy told Housing North.
The workshop’s main presenter was Ryan Kilpatrick, lead consultant for Housing Next, Housing North’s sister organization in west Michigan.
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