COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – Communities across the nation are scrambling to deal with the problem of finding enough affordable housing for their residents, and the City of Coldwater is no different.
City Manager Keith Baker says Coldwater’s growing population, fueled by business expansion in the area, has put pressure on the housing market. But he says part of that pressure is being relieved by four projects that have either been recently completed or will be in 2025.
There have also been a number of upper story apartments opened in downtown Coldwater, located above existing businesses.
Affordable housing has for the most part been a failure since the President Johnson’s Great Society era. The problems are most of them end up as rundown crime infested apartments. I see our local police right now constantly dealing with problems at apartment complexes around our own city. Most of the apartment buildings are government subsidized. Which means we the people are paying for them and most that lease these apartments don’t treat them as their own. Just drive around and look. The old quote, give a man a fish he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish he will eat for a lifetime. And buy his own house.