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Local News

• Lighthouse Communities and Urban Pizza
  Uptown Incubator, Urban Pizza to open April 1.
• Madison Square Business Incubator
  Madison Square business incubator has community backing for $1.7m project.
• Flips Foreclosed Homes
  Lighthouse Communities has several homes throughout Kent County that they are revitalizing. The positive investment and development of these properties will likely stabilize property values of the entire block, bringing vitality and prosperity to our communities.
• Bringing in NSP funds to address foreclosures and blight in southeast Grand Rapids
  Garfield Park and Madison Square neighborhood will benefit from an $820,000 investment in NSP funds allocated by the State of Michigan. Watch the video online.
• Countrywide Settlement Funds allocated to housing agencies
  Lighthouse Communities and other local housing agencies will receive funds to continue to stabilize the neighborhoods hardest hit by foreclosures in Grand Rapids.
• Fighting foreclosures with Neighborhood Stabilization Program funds
  Read about the effects of foreclosure in our communities and how Lighthouse will help tackle this issue through the NSP program by making improvements to foreclosed properties and returning them to homeownership.
• Madison Square business district
  Madison Square business district another step closer to becoming Grand Rapids' second CID

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Home Ownership

Lighthouse acquires, redevelops, and sells 20 homes annually. Each home is completely renovated using new, modern, and energy efficient materials.

Our home ownership program is designed to offer incentives to attract a diverse pool of home buyers -- both buyers that have a choice and buyers that need a form of subsidy.

Because there are other agencies that do new construction, Lighthouse focuses only on rehab.

As with all our development programs, Lighthouse maintains our intentional focus on using local builders and suppliers, making sure jobs and dollars stay in our community.

Contact Alisa White (ext 229) or Venessa Remo (ext 234) to find out about financing options available to you.

Rental Development

Lighthouse owns and manages 98 affordable apartments. Lighthouse Communities apartments were built or renovated using a variety of State and Local funds which ensure that they will remain affordable for the next 30 years!

These apartments not only provide newly remodeled, affordable places for residents of limited income to live, they also represent a $15,200,000 investment in the community.

Lighthouse is intentional to use local contractors and suppliers to ensure that the development dollars stay in the community.