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In March, inside a home he is building in Alpena, builder Kyle Leavesley discusses the challenges of finding housing in Northeast Michigan.
ALPENA For Danielle Whitcomb, moving to Alpena in July meant settling for a second-choice school and giving up the family dog, because she had to jockey with a horde of other anxious home-shoppers for a too-small supply of available homes.
“It was quite a hassle to get up here,” Whitcomb said. “It would have been sooner, had I found a house.”
Potential homebuyers and renters in Northeast Michigan feel the pinch of a nationwide housing shortage spurred by a shifting economy and kicked into high gear by the COVID-19 pandemic.