Management told residents that it would be doing everything it could to help them and that over the next few days, the city of Detroit would provide resources and support relocation.
Detroit Free Press
Posted inJobs & Economic Development
Advocates prepare for homelessness crisis as feds make funding shift
Michigan homeless service providers warn of more people entering into homelessness amid changes to how the government funds housing programs.
Posted inEducation, Police & Public Safety
Detroit teens detained by ICE should be released, advocates say
The press conference was organized to support the two 16-year-old students, who are cousins and attend Western International High School in Southwest Detroit.
Posted inHealth and Welfare
Detroit water program can accept 5,000 households: How to apply
The Lifeline program offers a fixed monthly bill of $34 a month for income eligible households without a past due balance.
Posted inCivic and Community Information, Health and Welfare
Food benefits are flowing again, but nonprofit response to need won’t stop
Nonprofits, large and small, have stepped up during the recent confusion around food assistance and are not stopping anytime soon.
Posted inHousing
Detroit senior apartments to open at former west side HBCU site
The senior village on Meyers, set aside for residents 55 and up, is on the site of what was once Michigan’s only historically Black college and university.
Posted inCivic and Community Information, Political and Public Policy Information
Detroit’s ethics system under fire as Mary Sheffield faces first test as mayor-elect
City ethics training, mandated by the City Charter, is lacking with less than 10% of Detroit’s 10,000-plus public servants having taken it, the Free Press learned.
Posted inHealth and Welfare
Gleaners food bank announces new leader
The nonprofit has tapped Angela Moloney, who comes from the Bloomfield Hills-based Catholic Foundation of Michigan, as its next president and CEO after a national search.
Posted inCivic and Community Information, Jobs & Economic Development, Political and Public Policy Information
I-375 project moving forward after pause, but with changes
MDOT has restarted the clock on a project that’s expected to create a surface street-level boulevard in place of the interstate on the edge of downtown.
Posted inHealth and Welfare
Federal food assistance in Michigan pauses again after U.S. Supreme Court weighs in
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said that the ruling forced the department to pause benefits.