Michigan educators struggle with affordable housing

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Amber Groenke holds three jobs. While she’s an education assistant at West Ottawa High School, she also works at an Ulta Beauty store and as a Door-Dash driver.

Last summer, she was homeless.

Housing prices in Holland were too high compared to her $15.50-an-hour pay as an education assistant. While searching for housing, she commuted back and forth to work from her parents’ house – an hour an…