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Beaver Island Housing Market Analysis, 2023

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TypeDataset
Date2023-09-15
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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2023-09-15
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Summary

The Beaver Island Housing Market Analysis is a September 15, 2023 market study of potential housing options for permanent island residents. It examines affordable rental, workforce, and market-rate housing target markets and uses demographic, economic, and survey material to assess potential demand.

The report explicitly says that it does not separately analyze part-time workforce housing, high-priced luxury homes, or second/vacation residences. Its purpose is to assess whether market depth and demand may exist for potential housing development, not to select a site, sponsor, or financing model unless expressly stated in the report.

Evidence and limits

This document records a 2023 consultant analysis and its stated scope, assumptions, and recommendations. It does not establish that its estimates are current after the study period, that any recommendation was adopted, that a housing entity was formed, that a parcel or financing source was selected, or that units were built, occupied, affordable, or available.

See also

Sources

  1. Held public planning-record PDF discovered from St. James Township’s Master Plan page. Its SHA-256 matches the separately held Planning Commission copy, so this is an independent discovery/provenance path to the same September 15 report, not a second edition or new evidence.
    planning · beaver_island_master_plan · documents · housing-market-analysis-beaver-island-final-draft-september-15-2023-b32f4e6d
  2. Project provenance sidecar for the 2023 Beaver Island Housing Market Analysis in the Master Plan public-record collection.
    Records the public source URL, discovery page, retrieval timestamp, checksum, 5,169,961-byte file size, and public-access-only rights statement. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    planning · beaver_island_master_plan · documents · housing-market-analysis-beaver-island-final-draft-september-15-2023-b32f4e6d.provenance
  3. Held report says it was commissioned by the Beaver Island Community Development Corporation and Northern Homes CDC with Charlevoix County Community Foundation funding. It examines market conditions and potential demand for affordable rental, workforce, and market-rate housing for permanent residents, explicitly excluding a separate analysis of part-time workforce housing, high-priced luxury homes, and second/vacation residences. It is a market analysis, not an adopted plan, development approval, funding award, parcel record, construction record, or affordability outcome.
    governance · township_meetings · st-james-planning · housing-market-analysis-beaver-island-final-091523-1-pdf-caace1ce90

Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Housing Market Analysis, 2023”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/beaver-island-housing-market-analysis-2023/, accessed [date], citing Community Research Services, LLC, *Housing Market Analysis – Beaver Island*, final draft, September 15, 2023. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-02. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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