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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 ...
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 ...
Depending on the age group in question and how homelessness is defined, the consensus estimate as of 2014 was that, at minimum, 25% of the American homeless—140,000 individuals—were seriously mentally ill at any given point in time. 45% percent of the homeless—250,000 individuals—had any mental illness.
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.
Fifty-nine Detroit postal workers were attacked by stray dogs in 2010, according to a Detroit postmaster. [18] Detroit had faced many cases of arson each year on Devil's Night, the evening before Halloween. In the 1980s a number of residents noted that they had turned to arson of abandoned homes to keep drug dealers from using the empty buildings.
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 ...
Little Caesars Arena, the home of the NHL's Detroit Red Wings and the NBA's Detroit Pistons, is on the west side of Woodward Avenue near Interstate 75. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Cass Corridor became a poor neighborhood known for drugs, prostitution and sex crimes against children. The area was of significance in the Oakland County Child ...