East Lansing Planning Commission Discusses Fee-in-Lieu Plan for Affordable Housing Goals

Developers have said the city's current method of incentivizing affordable housing downtown makes projects prohibitively expensive.

East Lansing Planning Commission Discusses Fee-in-Lieu Plan for Affordable Housing Goals
East Lansing Principal Planner Landon Bartley (left) sits next to Senior Planner Alycia Reiten at the Jan. 20, 2026 City Council meeting. (Brian Wells for ELi)