Grand Rapids downtown rents are rising, making affordable housing hard to come by for local artists. Major developments could receive a funding boost under proposed legislation.
Patrick joined WGVU Public Media in December, 2008 after eight years of investigative reporting at Grand Rapids' WOOD-TV8 and three years at WYTV News Channel 33 in Youngstown, Ohio. As News and Public Affairs Director, Patrick manages our daily radio news operation and public interest television programming. An award-winning reporter, Patrick has won multiple Michigan Associated Press Best Reporter/Anchor awards and is a three-time Academy of Television Arts & Sciences EMMY Award winner with 14 nominations.
Creating a housing advisory committee to deal with what commissioners are calling a housing crisis is one of four concrete strategies set by the Grand…