ISAAC
How can we meet everyone’s need for a place to call home?
Excellent work to increase the supply of affordable housing is being led by the City of Kalamazoo, in collaboration with many partners. Where does ISAAC fit in? Our Housing Task Force is most concerned about families with children, and others with very low incomes. “Affordable” means spending no more than 30% of your income on housing. “Affordable” for people with only 30% of our Area Median Income (AMI) is very different from “affordable” for people with 60-80% of AMI.
At the ISAAC Public Meeting on October 25, the Housing Task Force will present several ways that our wider community can come closer to meeting everyone’s need for a place to call home—especially “the least of these.”
– Tobi Hanna-Davies & Stephanie Hoffman, Housing Task Force co-chairs
Ed Genesis is an artist, poet, musician, organizer, entrepreneur, and community leader. Born and raised in Gary, Indiana and moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan permanently in his early 20’s, his love of art/music, his passion for his people and community, and his gift of creativity are evident in all areas of his work. In October 2018 Ed Genesis released a song to accompany the campaign he was working on around school push out, entitled Junior High, which was distributed nationwide including on his own iHeart radio station, Spotify, and iTunes.