Thursday Round-up

$8.4M apartment complex to house homeless veterans (Kalamazoo Gazette)

• An $8.4 million apartment complex that will provide transitional housing for homeless veterans from Kalamazoo and Calhoun counties is expected to open in late summer.Veterans will pay 30 percent of their adjusted gross incomes for the transitional housing - if there is no income, they will be able to live for free.

Summer-job Program in Kzoo specifically for lower income (Kalamazoo Gazette)

• Unlike last summer, Youth Opportunities Unlimited summer positions in Kalamazoo and other parts of Southwest Michigan are only available to youth whose families have household incomes below certain levels. The federal stimulus dollars stipulates that the maximum annual household income in order to be eligible for the program is $23,239 for a family of four, $18,824 for a family of three, $14,570 for a family of two and $10,830 for an individual.
• The Poverty Reduction Initiative has taken advantage of this program to hire a summer intern, who will work on the community indicators database - mapping service providers in Kalamazoo