Detroit’s $7 million development lifts affordable housing units, while bringing job seekers, employers and service providers closer together

Detroit’s $7 million development lifts affordable housing units, while bringing job seekers, employers and service providers closer together

  With its groundbreaking today, the $7 million North End affordable neighborhood housing development announced by Central City Integrated Health (CCIH), along with Mayor Duggan, other City of Detroit officials and community members, signals that the city is one step closer to its goal of becoming a “city for everyone.” The now-vacant Saint Rita Apartments, […]

Motor City Re-Store information sessions scheduled

Motor City Re-Store information sessions scheduled

If you are a small neighborhood business looking for ways to give your store the curb appeal it needs to bring in more customers Motor City Re-Store is for you. The program will provide a total of $500,000 in matching grants each quarter to existing businesses to make exterior improvements that will help stabilize and […]

Development leaders discuss protecting, investing in Detroit

Development leaders discuss protecting, investing in Detroit

More Detroiters are sharing the city’s wealth. A devoted core of civic leaders, residents and community-minded professional developers are bringing investment to areas in need of the same nurturing other parts of the city – namely downtown and Midtown – have received. Plans are underway to stabilize core neighborhoods that are already densely populated and […]

Detroit organization may have to turn away victims of rape and assualt

Detroit organization may have to turn away victims of rape and assualt

Would you turn away a rape victim or someone who has been tortured from your door? In essence, that’s the dilemma that Freedom House is facing today. The last few weeks have been incredibly troubling for metro Detroit’s immigrant and refugee communities. But even before news of President Trump’s so-called travel ban and the protests that followed, […]

Expert panel discusses affordable housing in Detroit [Video]

Expert panel discusses affordable housing in Detroit [Video]

Home on Detroit’s east side during a college break, Maggie DeSantis’ daughter made an announcement. Her community had begun to feel like it was a foreign place. “I’m not living here,” she said, “because the neighborhood is changing in a way I’m not comfortable with.” DeSantis, former head of the Eastside Community Network, immediately knew […]