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# Eleven new for-sale townhomes on Holland's south side, priced for local incomes
- URL: https://www.mosaicwestmichigan.com/ottawa-townhomes-jubilee-habitat-holland/
- Published: 2026-10-12T16:24:02.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-12T18:06:51.000Z
- Description: Jubilee Ministries and Lakeshore Habitat for Humanity are turning a former office lot at Ottawa Avenue and 20th Street into for-sale townhomes for households earning 30% to 120% of the area median income.
- Author: Mosaic Staff
- Tags: Civic, Holland

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Jubilee Ministries and Lakeshore Habitat for Humanity are building 11 for-sale townhomes on a former office lot at Ottawa Avenue and West 20th Street. On Aug. 19, Holland City Council [approved a brownfield plan](https://app.govly.com/public/meetings/71704?ref=mosaicwestmichigan.com) for the site that helps pay for cleanup and construction.

The project, called Ottawa Townhomes, is the two nonprofits' third partnership and their first infill project inside an existing neighborhood, within walking distance of schools, shops and bus routes. Jubilee is building six homes and Habitat five.

"In the Holland area, there is a huge shortage of for-sale housing," Steve Grose, Jubilee's executive director, [told WGVU](https://www.wgvunews.org/news/2025-10-01/anonymous-land-donation-could-lead-to-affordable-housing-project-in-holland?ref=mosaicwestmichigan.com) last year.

## Who the homes are for

All 11 homes are for sale to households earning 30% to 120% of the area median income. Habitat generally serves buyers at the lower end of that range, and Jubilee serves middle-income buyers who earn too much for Habitat but are still priced out of the market. Habitat's homes are two-story units in a duplex and a triplex, each with three bedrooms, two baths, about 1,500 square feet and a one-stall garage.

That middle band is where Ottawa County is shortest. Housing Next, which tracks the region's housing needs, estimates the county still needs about 12,500 for-sale homes, nearly 7,000 of them for households in the 80% to 120% income range.

## How the brownfield plan helps

The plan lets the city capture $1.58 million in new property taxes from the site over 15 years to pay back cleanup and development costs. That includes $440,000 under Michigan's 2023 housing tax increment financing law, which supports homes for households up to 120% of median income. The same site also includes a self-storage building.

## Part of a bigger push

The two nonprofits built 10 homes together at Park Vista Place, finished in 2023, and have been building 42 at Vista Green near 36th Street and Washington Avenue, a neighborhood expected to be finished by the end of 2026\. With Ottawa Townhomes, that comes to 63 homes, and they aim to build 20 to 30 a year.

"The housing market in Holland completely barred me from my dream of owning a home," Becca Barth, who bought at Park Vista Place, [told The Lakeshore](https://thelakeshorewm.com/nonprofits%5Fcreates%5Faffordable%5Fhousing%5Fneighborhood/?ref=mosaicwestmichigan.com).

## How to apply

Lakeshore Habitat's applications are closed while its current developments fill, but it keeps an [interest form](https://www.lakeshorehabitat.org/homeownership-program?ref=mosaicwestmichigan.com) in English and Spanish for the next round. Applicants need a credit score over 620, 12 months of consistent employment and rental history, the ability to save and pay a $4,000 down payment by closing, and 250 hours of sweat equity per adult, among other requirements. Priority goes to people who live and work near the build. Habitat's office is at 616-393-8001.