Warming centers and respite spots are available across Detroit for residents seeking a reprieve from frigid temperatures.
The City of Detroit opened warming centers last month with 100 extra emergency shelter beds, providing sleeping accommodations, two meals and showers. City recreation centers and libraries are also available during regular operating hours.
How to get into shelters, warming centers
To get into shelters and warming centers, residents must call the Coordinated Assessment Model, or CAM, the main way for people facing homelessness in Detroit, Hamtramck and Highland Park to access housing help. To reach CAM, they can call the City of Detroit’s Housing Resource HelpLine at 866-313-2520, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday to Friday.
People can also go to an in-person CAM site at the following locations:
- Cass Community Social Services: 11850 Woodrow Wilson St.; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday to Friday
- NOAH at Central: 23 E. Adams Ave. (second floor); 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Monday to Thursday
CAM provides transportation to shelters, if needed. For more information, go to camdetroit.org.
The recently opened warming centers are Cass Community Social Services (for women and families); Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries (for women and families), and Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries (for single men).
There are currently more than 1,200 shelter and warming center beds. By Jan. 1, the number of shelter beds is expected to reach more than 1,400, according to a news release.
Respite Spots
The Detroit Public Library main library in Midtown is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday; 12 p.m. to 8 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. For neighborhood library branch hours, go detroitpubliclibrary.org.
Here is a list of City of Detroit recreation centers and when they are open, according to a news release:
- Adams Butzel Complex: 10500 Lyndon; 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday to Friday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday
- Butzel Family Center: 7737 Kercheval Ave.; 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday to Friday
- Clemente Recreation Center: 2631 Bagley; 1 p.m. to 9 p.m., Monday to Friday
- Community Center at AB Ford: 100 Lenox; 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday to Friday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday
- Crowell Recreation Center: 16630 Lahser; 1 p.m. to 9 p.m., Monday to Friday
- Farwell Recreation Center: 2711 E. Outer Drive; 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday to Friday
- Heilmann Recreation Center: 19601 Crusade; 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday to Friday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday
- Kemeny Recreation Center: 2260 S. Fort; 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday to Friday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday
- Lasky Recreation Center: 13200 Fenelon; 1 p.m. to 9 p.m., Monday to Friday
- Northwest Activities Center: 18100 Meyers; 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday to Friday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday
- Patton Recreation Center: 2301 Woodmere; 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday to Friday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday
