Ypsilanti to gain affordable housing: Long-term solution or bandaid?

Ypsilanti to gain affordable housing: Long-term solution or bandaid?

YPSILANTI, Mich.—Ann Arbor-area non-profit Avalon Housing is planning its first project here that will provide affordable housing for low-income community residents. It will be located at 206/210 North Washington St. which was the site of a notorious fire in 2017 that left the building an uninhabitable and dangerous eye sore. At the time of the fire, the property was owned by Stewert Beal. After the fire, he was supposed to demolish this unstabl…