'Nowhere Else to Go': How Northern Michigan's Senior Housing Shortage Is Exacerbating Every Other Market Hurdle
By Craig Manning | Oct. 12, 2025
“It’s really bad.”
That’s Yarrow Brown’s blunt report on the senior housing situation in northern Michigan. Despite the Grand Traverse area’s status as a desirable retirement destination, numbers show the region is woefully unprepared to house its ever-growing population of senior citizens – at least without some major changes to local zoning and development trends.
As executive director for Housing North, Brown is no stranger to the often-dire statistics that characterize northern Michigan’s housing problem. A nonprofit organization formed in 2018, Housing North works to “build awareness, influence policy and grow capacity and resources for housing solutions” across the 10-county region of Antrim, Benzie, Charlevoix, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Leelanau, …
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