As Local Leaders Eye Housing Solutions, Garfield Township Resists Goodwill Inn Expansion
By Beth Milligan | Nov. 2, 2026
A committee of local leaders is working to put a new Housing and Homelessness Task Force plan into action. The new Oversight and Alignment team aims to develop an implementation plan by the year’s end. However, Garfield Township leaders are opposed to one key recommendation – creating a consolidated shelter campus, potentially at the Goodwill Inn property on Keystone Road – saying the township shoulders an “unfair” share of the region’s low-income and shelter housing.
Director Emma Moyer of the Northwest Michigan Coalition to End Homelessness – which spearheaded the the Housing and Homelessness Task Force – says several community leaders who previously served on the task force are on …
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