LOCATION TAG — A Charlevoix church is taking on a crisis many Northern Michigan families feel every day.

Instead of selling its land to the highest bidder, the First Baptist Church of Charlevoix is opening its property to create affordable housing. This small congregation hopes to make a big impact on the local housing crisis.

For decades, the church’s six-and-a-half acres sat mostly untouched.

Now church leaders say the need for housing has become impossible to ignore-and the land they’ve held since the 1960s may be the key to keeping families, workers, and seniors in the community.

Here are the 6 acres of land Fist Baptist Church plans on using to create affordable housing for the Charlevoix community.

It sits between a cemetery and Charlevoix Estates -a quiet stretch of land the ch

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