A new resource is available to help eliminate blight

The Michigan Blight Elimination Planning Guidebook serves as a primer for Michigan communities interested in developing a strategy to more effectively address blight with limited resources. While this Guidebook will not address every blight issue a community is facing, it’s meant to help local leaders identify a starting point and create a plan to eliminate blight. Every community is different and this guide is designed to provide municipal leaders with a variety of blight elimination resources and lead them through the development of a blight elimination plan. It also can help communities prepare for potential funding opportunities for blight elimination plan implementation, which may become available through the Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA), the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), foundations, and other local or national entities. Read more here.