The city of Detroit is operating more than 1,400 shelter and warming center beds with its partners.
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 inDetroit Thrive, Housing
New program aims to help families with ‘tangled titles’ keep homes
Nushrat Rahman writes on a new pilot rolling out in the coming months to help heirs without formal estate plans keep their generational property.
Posted inCivic and Community Information, Environment
How Detroit wants to spend $346M in federal disaster recovery aid
The HUD funding is meant to help states, counties and cities recover from severe weather events, such as storms, floods and fires not already covered by insurance and other federal dollars.
Posted inArts & Culture, Civic and Community Information
The last chapter for a bookshop in historic Rosedale Park
Pages Bookshop owner Susan Murphy said she’s retiring at the end of the month, and so is 10-year-old Pip, the bookstore’s resident cat.
Posted inDetroit Thrive
The 2024 stories we can’t stop thinking about
A year in review: cash for moms, street medicine, housing voucher holdups and more.
Posted inHealth and Welfare
Need for food assistance is high. What you can do to help
Nonprofits have reported high levels of need all year and that’s growing in the winter. Agencies say they need volunteers, warm clothes and money.
Posted inCivic and Community Information, Political and Public Policy Information
Detroit water assistance program stops taking applications as funding remains unclear
The state House failed to act on legislation that would have provided long-term funding for the Lifeline Plan, which reduces eligible Detroiters’ water bill to as low as $18 a month and wipes away debt from overdue bills.
Posted inHealth and Welfare
What happens when you give moms and babies $7,500? Flint is finding out.
The program received $20 million in a state budget allocation to allow it to grow beyond Flint to communities across Michigan.
Posted inHealth and Welfare
Moms are getting cash each month to ease financial troubles. Does it work?
Two programs, one in Michigan and the other in Mississippi, aim to ease the economic hurdles families face, as costs remain high.
Posted inCivic and Community Information
Warming centers, respite spots are open across Detroit
The City of Detroit opened warming centers last month with 100 extra emergency shelter beds, providing sleeping spots, two meals and showers.