Ingham County, Michigan, Property Tax for Housing Programs Measure (November 2024)
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Ingham County Property Tax for Housing Programs Measure was on the ballot as a referral in Ingham County on November 5, 2024. It was approved.
A "yes" vote supported increasing the millage by up to $50 per $100,000 in assessed value, for a period of four years, for the purposes of housing to low and moderate income families, and services to unhoused persons in the county, raising an estimated $5.61 million in the first year of the levy. |
A "no" vote opposed increasing the millage by up to $50 per $100,000 in assessed value, for a period of four years, for the purposes of housing to low and moderate income families, and services to unhoused persons in the county, raising an estimated $5.61 million in the first year of the levy. |
A simple majority was required to approve the measure.
Election results
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82,944 | 61.81% | ||
| No | 51,254 | 38.19% | ||
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for Property Tax for Housing Programs Measure was as follows:
| “ | INGHAM COUNTY HOUSING AND HOMELESS MILLAGE For the purposes of expanding and improving the quality of housing available to low- and moderate-income families, to prevent and reduce homelessness, to provide services to unhoused persons in Ingham County, including the purchase, acquisition, construction, maintenance, operation, improvement, extension, or repair of housing facilities and the elimination of detrimental housing conditions, and funding other housing programs, shall the Constitutional limitation upon the total amount of taxes which may be assessed in one (1) year upon all property within the County of Ingham, Michigan be increased by up to 0.5000 of one (1) mill, (50 cents per thousand dollars of taxable value), for a period of four (4) years (2024-2027) inclusive? If approved and levied in full, this Millage will raise an estimated $5,618,512 in the first calendar year of the levy, based on state taxable valuation. | ” |
Path to the ballot
This measure was put on the ballot through a vote of the governing body of Ingham County.
How to cast a vote
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See also
Footnotes
- ↑ Michigan Secretary of State, "Frequently Asked Questions: Elections and Voting," accessed April 16, 2023
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Michigan Secretary of State, "Registering to Vote," accessed October 7, 2024
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 NCSL, "State Profiles: Elections," accessed August 26, 2024
- ↑ Under federal law, the national mail voter registration application (a version of which is in use in all states with voter registration systems) requires applicants to indicate that they are U.S. citizens in order to complete an application to vote in state or federal elections, but does not require voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the application "may require only the minimum amount of information necessary to prevent duplicate voter registrations and permit State officials both to determine the eligibility of the applicant to vote and to administer the voting process."
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Michigan.gov, "Notice to Voters: Voter Identification Requirement in Effect," accessed October 7, 2024
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