At the heart of Grand Rapids is a vision for housing that supports equity, opportunity, and homeownership. This Hub is designed to connect you to all things housing - from navigating residential building permits for ADUs, decks, fencing, and new homes, to accessing resources like financing, permits, and fair housing protections. Whether you're building, buying, improving, or planning, we’re here to connect you with vital information.

Our city’s housing and community development strategies recognize that housing isn't just about structures, it’s about stability and inclusion. By forging partnerships, reforming zoning to create flexible housing types, investing in affordable housing through strategic funds, and deploying outreach teams to assist unhoused residents, Grand Rapids is actively working to make housing accessible and supportive for all its residents.

Housing Resources

Homelessness

We develop, support and promote solutions that reduce homelessness in our community and support individuals and families in need through City-wide initiatives and strategic partnerships.

Housing Resources

Learn about the resources available for locating, buying, moving into, maintaining, and renovating a home. Information regarding foreclosure prevention is also available.

Housing Rehabilitation Program

This program offers Grand Rapids residents affordable loans for home repairs. This a federally funded program administered by the Community Development Department.

Our Strategic Plan

Our Strategic Plan lays out our City's commitment and priorities across our entire organization, including housing-related topics. Learn about our focus areas and objectives.

Boards and Commissions

Get involved with your community. More than 250 citizens serve on these boards, including the Affordable Housing Fund Board.

Land Bank Authority

Creating positive economic outcomes in the City by acting as a conduit to ensure quality land management of vacant, abandoned, foreclosed, blighted, or otherwise unproductive real property to support best and highest uses.

Building Permits

Click here for all the building-related permits you might need when making improvements and renovations to your home or property.

Downtown Pathways Project

A public-private philanthropic partnership effort to permanently house and provide supportive case management to 100 individuals experiencing chronic homelessness.

Housing Data

As part of our Strategic Plan, we track annual data on units permitted, affordable housing units built, and unhoused individuals homed. Find this live information below. To view additional building and permit-related data tracked by the Development Center, click here.

This graph shows the number of new housing units permitted in the City of Grand Rapids year over year.

Units Permitted

Affordable Units

This graph shows the number of affordable units built in the City of Grand Rapids year over year. Our annual goal is 100 affordable units.

This graph shows the number of unhoused residents housed through city programs year over year. Our annual goal is to house 350 residents per year.

Number of Persons