Abundant Housing Michigan priority legislation for the 2025-2026 Legislative Session

• Legalize building more housing of all kinds: Our efforts will be focused on loosening prohibitions and tight restrictions on “starter homes” to give Michiganders a shot at making a living, starting a family and owning their own home.

• Streamline and standardize approval processes: In communities across Michigan, local governments slow or even halt housing production with expensive and never-ending approval processes that often have the effect of killing new housing; We will focus on legislation that reforms that process in order to make it more efficient, streamlined, transparent, and productive.

• Modernize our building codes: In the US and in Michigan particularly, our costly and complicated construction codes, fire-safety requirements, utility rules and even tax policies have put us out of step with peer countries and has made building the housing we need prohibitively expensive without any determinable safety benefit. We will focus on reforming and modernizing our codes.