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SUMMARY:Friday Coffee - January 23\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:<p>Join us Friday at 9 am for an informative meeting. Coffee an
 d pastries provided. Our office is in the Trestlebridge Office Center\, 525
 0 Lovers Lane in Portage (across from Loy Norrix High School\, south of Kil
 gore Road).</p>
\n
\n<div style="font-family: inherit\; text-align: inherit
 "><span style="margin-bottom: 0.08in\; caret-color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; color:
  #000000\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight: no
 rmal\; letter-spacing: normal\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; w
 hite-space-collapse: collapse\; text-wrap-mode: wrap\; word-spacing: 0px\; 
 -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\; text-decoration-line: none">Willa DiTarant
 o\, Kalamazoo County Housing Project Manager\,&nbsp\;will speak at the KGOP
  Friday Coffee. She will give an update on the success of the Housing Milla
 ge\, which voters passed in 2020.</span></div>
\n
\n<div style="font-family
 : inherit\; text-align: inherit">&nbsp\;</div>
\n
\n<div style="font-family
 : inherit\; text-align: inherit"><span style="margin-bottom: 0.08in\; caret
 -color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; color: #000000\; font-style: normal\; font-variant
 -caps: normal\; font-weight: normal\; letter-spacing: normal\; text-indent:
  0px\; text-transform: none\; white-space-collapse: collapse\; text-wrap-mo
 de: wrap\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\; text-decora
 tion-line: none">Since its inception\, the Housing Millage has achieved sig
 nificant milestones:</span></div>
\n
\n<ul>
\n	<li color="rgb(0\, 0\, 0)" s
 tyle="text-align: inherit\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)"><span style="caret-color
 : rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; color: #000000\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-caps:
  normal\; font-weight: normal\; letter-spacing: normal\; text-align: start\
 ; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; white-space-collapse: collapse\
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 \; text-decoration-line: none\; margin-bottom: 0in\; border-top-width: medi
 um\; border-right-width: medium\; border-bottom-width: medium\; border-left
 -width: medium\; border-top-style: none\; border-right-style: none\; border
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 : 0in\; padding-left: 0in\; line-height: 24px">Over $26 million has been al
 located to housing development and supportive services</span></li>
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 olor="rgb(0\, 0\, 0)" style="text-align: inherit\; color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)"><
 span style="caret-color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; color: #000000\; font-style: norm
 al\; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight: normal\; letter-spacing: norm
 al\; text-align: start\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; white-sp
 ace-collapse: collapse\; text-wrap-mode: wrap\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit
 -text-stroke-width: 0px\; text-decoration-line: none\; margin-bottom: 0in\;
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 h: medium\; border-left-width: medium\; border-top-style: none\; border-rig
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 t: 0in\; padding-bottom: 0in\; padding-left: 0in\; line-height: 24px">Appro
 ximately 1400 new housing units have received Housing Millage funding\, wit
 h over 800 currently occupied\, under construction\, or breaking ground.</s
 pan></li>
\n	<li style="text-align: inherit"><span style="caret-color: rgb(
 0\, 0\, 0)\; color: #000000\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-caps: norma
 l\; font-weight: normal\; letter-spacing: normal\; text-align: start\; text
 -indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; white-space-collapse: collapse\; text
 -wrap-mode: wrap\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\; tex
 t-decoration-line: none\; margin-bottom: 0in\; border-top-width: medium\; b
 order-right-width: medium\; border-bottom-width: medium\; border-left-width
 : medium\; border-top-style: none\; border-right-style: none\; border-botto
 m-style: none\; border-left-style: none\; border-top-color: currentcolor\; 
 border-right-color: currentcolor\; border-bottom-color: currentcolor\; bord
 er-left-color: currentcolor\; border-image-source: none\; border-image-slic
 e: 100%\; border-image-width: 1\; border-image-outset: 0\; border-image-rep
 eat: stretch\; padding-top: 0in\; padding-right: 0in\; padding-bottom: 0in\
 ; padding-left: 0in\; line-height: 24px">More than 100 owner-occupied homes
  have received critical repairs addressing health and safety concerns.</spa
 n><br />
\n	&nbsp\;</li>
\n</ul>
\n
\n<div style="font-family: inherit\; te
 xt-align: inherit"><span style="margin-bottom: 0.08in\; caret-color: rgb(0\
 , 0\, 0)\; color: #000000\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-caps: normal\
 ; font-weight: normal\; letter-spacing: normal\; text-indent: 0px\; text-tr
 ansform: none\; white-space-collapse: collapse\; text-wrap-mode: wrap\; wor
 d-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\; text-decoration-line: non
 e">Information about the Housing Department\, from the Kalamazoo County web
 site:</span></div>
\n
\n<div style="font-family: inherit\; text-align: inhe
 rit"><span style="margin-bottom: 0.08in\; caret-color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; col
 or: #000000\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight:
  normal\; letter-spacing: normal\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\
 ; white-space-collapse: collapse\; text-wrap-mode: wrap\; word-spacing: 0px
 \; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\; text-decoration-line: none">The Housing
  Department's mission is to lead the development and implementation of Kala
 mazoo County's housing strategy. We work to ensure that everyone in our com
 munity has access to safe\, affordable housing.</span></div>
\n
\n<div styl
 e="font-family: inherit\; text-align: inherit">&nbsp\;</div>
\n
\n<div styl
 e="font-family: inherit\; text-align: inherit"><span style="margin-bottom: 
 0.08in\; caret-color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; color: #000000\; font-style: normal\
 ; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight: normal\; letter-spacing: normal\
 ; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; white-space-collapse: collapse\
 ; text-wrap-mode: wrap\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px
 \; text-decoration-line: none">Our team collaborates with public\, private\
 , and nonprofit partners to address key housing needs. Together\, we focus 
 on expanding rental assistance programs\; building permanent\, affordable h
 ousing\; and providing supportive services to residents.</span></div>
\n
\n
 <div style="font-family: inherit\; text-align: inherit">&nbsp\;</div>
\n
\n
 <div style="font-family: inherit\; text-align: inherit"><span style="margin
 -bottom: 0.08in\; caret-color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; color: #000000\; font-style
 : normal\; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight: normal\; letter-spacing
 : normal\; text-indent: 0px\; text-transform: none\; white-space-collapse: 
 collapse\; text-wrap-mode: wrap\; word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-text-stroke-w
 idth: 0px\; text-decoration-line: none">The Housing Department oversees pro
 jects\, allocate resources\, and drives solutions that make a lasting impac
 t. The efforts include effectively managing housing funds to improve the av
 ailability and quality of affordable housing\; monitoring housing trends an
 d identifying innovative practices to meet community needs\; preparing and 
 managing the budget for housing initiatives\; and overseeing the annual hou
 sing millage funding application process and recommend allocations to the C
 ounty Board.</span></div>
\n
\n<div style="font-family: inherit\; text-alig
 n: start">&nbsp\;</div>
\n
\n<div style="font-family: inherit\; text-align:
  start"><span style="margin-bottom: 0in\; caret-color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\; col
 or: #000000\; font-style: normal\; font-variant-caps: normal\; font-weight:
  400\; letter-spacing: normal\; text-align: start\; text-indent: 0px\; text
 -transform: none\; white-space-collapse: collapse\; text-wrap-mode: wrap\; 
 word-spacing: 0px\; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\; text-decoration-line: 
 none">The 2024 Annual Housing Department Report may be viewed here: https:/
 /www.kalcounty.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/349</span></div>\n\nLocation
 : Willa DiTaranto\, Kalamazoo County Housing Project Manager\, will speak a
 t the KGOP Friday Coffee.\n\nContact: events@kgop.us\nPhone: 269-323-0067\n
 \nCheck-in: https://crm.kgop.us/event-checkin.php?event_id=118
LOCATION:Willa DiTaranto\, Kalamazoo County Housing Project Manager\, will 
 speak at the KGOP Friday Coffee.
URL:https://crm.kgop.us/event-checkin.php?event_id=118
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SEQUENCE:0
ORGANIZER;CN=KGOP:mailto:events@kgop.us
CATEGORIES:Republican,Politics,KGOP
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