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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 inCivic and Community Information
Extra food aid benefits will end after February for Michigan families
A temporary boost in food aid benefits to help low-income families weather economic hardships of the pandemic is expected to end nationwide.
Posted inHousing
Detroit may move up deadline for property tax relief program
Detroit’s Board of Review is asking the City Council to change a property tax relief program’s deadline to address timing complications.
Posted inHousing
District Detroit project to get first loan from new fund
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan unveils a new financing tool for developers to build more affordable housing in downtown Detroit.
Posted inEnvironment
EGLE awards $5.8M to redevelop contaminated sites in Detroit
Four contaminated properties in Detroit received brownfield funding from the state for cleanup
Posted inHousing
What we’ve learned about the value of housing news in Detroit
BridgeDetroit reporter Nushrat Rahman writes about the importance of generational wealth and why she reports on housing issues in the city.
Posted inHealth and Welfare
Youth homelessness an ‘invisible crisis’ in plain sight, providers say
Detroit outreach teams serve a hard to track part of the unhoused population – young people.
Posted inCivic and Community Information
Memorial honors 31 Detroiters who died while homeless
The service in Detroit was a part of the national Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day.
Posted inArts & Culture
Several Detroit art organizations sharing in $500,000 boost
Neighborhood and community-based arts organizations across Southeast Michigan received funding as part of a Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation program to support their work.
Posted inCivic and Community Information
Civil rights groups want Detroit to stop water shutoffs, extend moratorium
Civil right organizers filed a motion in an ongoing case this week asking for the extension of the moratorium and for a long term solution.