WLNS - The Michigan Conference on Affordable Housing kicked off. It's the largest of its kind in the nation. Featured at the conference- a special keynote speaker. A basketball coach is getting people back in the housing market game. Coach Ken Carter fires up the crowd, but this time it's not a state championship basketball game or a Hollywood movie. Instead, this is all a pep talk about the housing market.

Coach Ken Carter, motivational speaker: "1,500 people here and we're all searching for one single thing: solutions to the housing problems of tomorrow and beyond."

And to help find those solutions, more than