ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a sketch of low-income housing market and faith-based organizations play in it. The low and moderate income housing market in Michigan is comprised of complex network of government agencies and nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Programs have different impacts and engage different organizations at the state and local level, it is useful to provide a brief sense of at least some of the major federal programs operating in the state of Michigan. The programs operate in similar ways by providing funds to nonprofit organizations to develop rental housing with supportive services. The Community Economic Development Association of Michigan (CEDAM) was incorporated in 1998 as a nonprofit collaboration of organizations interested in promoting the redevelopment and renewal of Michigan communities. The Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA) was created in 1966 as an independent agency to promote affordable housing across the state. The qualitative evidence provided in this chapter points a good deal of complexity in a faith-based organization.
