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This outdoor warming area and sleeping space for the homeless includes overhead heating elements and heated sidewalks at the new Pope Francis Center Bridge Housing Campus on Detroit's west side on ...
Interim findings in a new report commissioned by the City of Detroit, released this week, will inform a plan to address homelessness in Detroit. Detroit releases first-of-its-kind report on ...
A Detroit street medicine team seeks to get medical care to a hard to reach population — the homeless. Here is how they are doing it. Medical care for Detroit's homeless gets a half a million ...
Homelessness, also known as houselessness or being unhoused or unsheltered, is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and functional housing.It includes living on the streets, moving between temporary accommodation with family or friends, living in boarding houses with no security of tenure, [1] and people who leave their homes because of civil conflict and are refugees within their country.
According to the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, "affordable housing shortages" is among the top policy-related causes of homelessness, and 40%-60% of homeless people have a job, yet still cannot afford housing. [110]
Various paraphernalia used to smoke crack cocaine, including a homemade crack pipe made out of an empty plastic water bottle.. In a study done by Roland Fryer, Steven Levitt, and Kevin Murphy, a crack index was calculated using information on cocaine-related arrests, deaths, and drug raids, along with low birth rates and media coverage in the United States.
Starting Monday, people facing housing instability will notice some changes to Detroit’s main entry point into the homeless shelter system. Detroit’s homeless hotline is changing how people ...
Mental illness in Alaska is a current epidemic that the state struggles to manage. The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness stated that as of January 2018, Alaska had an estimated 2,016 citizens experiencing homelessness on any given day while around 3,784 public school students experienced homelessness over the course of the year as well. [10]