The complex is set aside for homeless veterans and people with disabilities, and rent can be a maximum of 30% of a tenant’s monthly income.
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Posted inEducation
The Detroit school district achieved its highest graduation rate since 2008 last year
The rate was 83% in 2025, a nearly 5 percentage point increase over the previous year. It was the highest since the state started using its current measures in 2007-08.
Posted inPolice & Public Safety
Detroit chief changes course, will not fire cops in immigration cases
Todd Bettison said he’s “satisfied” with the punishment, citing the Detroit police oversight board’s Thursday decision to suspend the officers without pay.
Posted inEducation, Political and Public Policy Information
3 Michigan school districts investigated over LGBTQ curriculum, opt outs
Federal officials seek records from Detroit, Lansing and Godfrey-Lee schools over whether the districts allow parents to opt out of instruction about “sexual orientation or gender ideology.”
Posted inHealth and Welfare, Political and Public Policy Information
Cash aid program offers $4,500 to parents. Where is it, how to apply
Families in the Rx Kids program reported feeling more financially secure and used their cash on baby supplies, food, rent and utilities.
Posted inHealth and Welfare, Political and Public Policy Information
Cash aid program for moms and babies launches in Detroit, where it will go next
Applications are open in Detroit. In March, the popular cash aid program is slated to grow across the rest of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Posted inPolice & Public Safety
ICE rumors, fears push Ypsilanti child care centers to prepare for the worst
Incidents in Ypsilanti are a window into the wider concern growing across Michigan over ICE activity in the wake of violent escalations that have captured national attention, most prominently in Minneapolis, where two U.S. citizens, Renee Nicole Good, 37, and Alex Pretti, 37, were shot and killed by federal immigration agents.
Posted inHousing
Tenants of shuttered Leland House in Detroit denied belongings
Judge ends court hearing without deciding on the tenant union’s request to reconsider an earlier court order that only allows moving contractors to enter the building and pack up the tenants’ belongings at some point in the future.
Posted inHealth and Welfare, Housing
Detroit vowed to revamp its homeless response system. Has it worked?
The city of Detroit announced a seven-point plan nearly a year ago to help Detroiters who are unhoused and on the streets, after two children died.
Posted inHousing, Police & Public Safety
No charges to be filed in deaths of two kids in Detroit casino garage
The announcement comes nearly a year after the children’s deaths put a spotlight on Detroit’s homelessness response system and prompted then Mayor Mike Duggan to launch a seven-point plan to address gaps in the system.