Expectant moms in Pontiac will be eligible for $1,500 while pregnant and another $500 for the first six months of their baby’s life.
Nushrat Rahman
Nushrat Rahman covers issues and obstacles that influence economic mobility, primarily in Detroit, for the Detroit Free Press and BridgeDetroit, as a corps member with Report for America, a national service program placing journalists in local newsrooms across the country.
Her beat includes coverage of housing, water affordability and issues important to small business owners – all areas she’s passionate about as a lifelong Detroiter. She has written for Hour Detroit, Model D and Tostada Magazine.
In 2018, Rahman was selected as one of 13 contributors for The Edit, a New York Times newsletter for college students and recent graduates. Rahman is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School, where she dived into narrative and investigative reporting, and Wayne State University.
Posted inPolice & Public Safety
Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office receives warrant request for kids’ deaths in casino garage
The two children, 2-year-old A’millah Currie and 9-year-old Darnell Currie Jr., died of carbon monoxide toxicity.
Posted inCivic and Community Information, Housing
Detroiters can get free help appealing their property value. How to apply
The program is for Detroiters who live in and own a home in Detroit worth less than $200,000. The deadline to apply is Wednesday.
Posted inHealth and Welfare, Housing
Metro Detroit homeless service agencies ‘deeply under resourced’
As the number of families and children facing homelessness increases, the services meant to connect people with housing help are stretched thin, overwhelmed and underfunded, area providers say.
Posted inHealth and Welfare, Political and Public Policy Information
Duggan promises 24 hour housing hotline after kids die in casino parking garage
The seven-point plan includes expanding the hours of a housing help line to 24 hours and seven days a week, beginning efforts to find families in vehicles, and treating every call that involves children as an emergency.
Posted inCivic and Community Information, Health and Welfare
Forgotten Harvest is launching more food pantries in Detroit, metro area
The food rescue nonprofit is expanding services to areas where it says need is highest but where there aren’t enough resources for food assistance.
Posted inDetroit Thrive
Gaps in Detroit’s housing safety net exposed
It’s been a challenging couple of weeks in Detroit following the tragic deaths of two children who appear to have frozen to death while unhoused and sheltering in a van.
Posted inCivic and Community Information, Health and Welfare
Mourners say goodbye to siblings with ‘unbreakable bond’ who froze in Detroit casino parking garage
Song and prayer enveloped about 150 mourners as they paid their respects to 9-year-old Darnell Currie Jr. and 2-year-old A’millah Currie.
Posted inHealth and Welfare, Housing
Detroit’s homeless referral system releases new report. What the numbers show
The safety net meant to connect vulnerable Detroiters to shelter is under scrutiny after two children appear to have frozen to death.
Posted inCivic and Community Information, Health and Welfare
Funeral services begin for 2 children who froze in Detroit casino parking garage
Deputy Mayor Melia Howard, who was at the public viewing on Wednesday, identified the children as 2-year-old A’millah Currie and 9-year-old Darnell Currie.