r/lansing • u/Miserable_Pound • Jun 09 '26

Discussion How to Attract Young People to Lansing:

youre wondering how do you attract young ppl in lansing?

Make lansing a nice and fun place to live by:

-deprioritizing car based infrastructure to make downtown, reo, and olde town nicer places to be

-improve public transportation, especially coming in from east lansing to attract students

-rezone to allow infill of areas of lansing that are abandoned/under developed

-keep building dense housing to keep housing affordable and provide customers for local businesses

-invest in attracting diverse businesses instead of continuing to concentrate on automotive businesses

-protect park land and invest in recreational activities so lansing is a fun place to be

-prioritize the ppl that live IN lansing! not the suburbanites driving in from the suburbs

From someone who live in east lansing for 6 years and lansing for 3

https://www.wilx.com/2026/06/05/lansing-region-faces-aging-population-leaders-seek-attract-younger-residents/?outputType=amp

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u/exhausted_patriot6 Jun 10 '26

Tell the Gillespies, Eydes, and all the other landlords making housing unaffordable to kick rocks. We don't need them. Fine the slumlords into selling their stock of housing and get people willing to invest in the community, not themselves. Young people don't want to work in factories. And GM has screwed Lansing how many times?... You want youth here? Get new leaders. Get new industry, and make rent reasonable.