Issue 8 : May 25, 2025

Every person needs a place to live and despite the majority of us being just one emergency away from homelessness, the city would like us to imagine those without housing to be experiencing the effects of some kind of moral failing.

In reality, it is Lansing that is failing it’s constituents by failing to prevent our current affordability crisis. Similarly to a child moving the food around on her plate, Lansing would rather dangerously displace our homeless populations than actually offer any housing solution for them.

This failing only increases in severity when applied to queer community members. Though twice as likely to experience houselessness due to income discrimination, many queer folks do not feel safe going to our city’s religious shelters.

In this issue you will read interviews from The Rent is Too Damn High, Lansing’s tenant union, as well as A Place for Us, a homeless shelter currently being fundraised for that will function to serve the LGBTQ community specifically.