The Metro: HUD gives Detroit $346M to prevent basement flooding
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. The rise of water main breaks, extreme weather events and flooded...
The Metro: HUD gives Detroit $346M to prevent basement flooding
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. The rise of water main breaks, extreme weather events and flooded...
The Metro: Is owning a home still part of the American dream?
Owning a home has been a symbol of achievement in this country for generations. It’s the most common way to...
The Metro: The many barriers to solving homelessness in metro Detroit
As the weather gets colder, many of us are retreating inside and turning up the heat. But shelter and heat...
Detroit Evening Report: Community celebrates new affordable housing project in Detroit’s North End
Community members gathered in Detroit's North End neighborhood on Tuesday to celebrate the completion of a new $7.3 million mixed-use...
Detroit Evening Report: Harris in Detroit; Maya Angelou Village opens and more
Tonight on the Detroit Evening Report, we cover Harris' recent visit to Detroit to shore up support from Black male voters;...
Detroit Evening Report: New mixed-use development breaks ground in North Corktown
The city of Detroit broke ground this week on the first phase of a new mixed-use housing development in North...
CEO of Pope Francis Center ‘disappointed’ by Supreme Court ruling on outdoor sleeping bans
Late last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that cities can ban homeless people from sleeping outside in public places....
Detroit Evening Report: Many Michiganders spending too much on rent, U-M study finds
A quarter of renters in Michigan are spending more than 50% of their total income on rent, according to a...
Hamtramck completes housing for families displaced by I-75 construction in the 1960s
A class action lawsuit filed in 1968 against Hamtramck for displacing a Black neighborhood for the construction of the I-75...
Created Equal: The pros and cons of buying a home on a land contract in Detroit
A new research paper says that rather than helping poor people buy houses, land contracts — individual purchase agreements between...
Detroit Evening Report: Construction begins on affordable housing project near Boston-Edison
Construction has begun on a $9 million multi-family affordable housing project just south of Detroit's Boston-Edison neighborhood on Clairmount and...
The Metro: Habitat for Humanity home repairs expand to Madison Heights
Habitat for Humanity of Oakland County provides a variety of housing programs, mainly focusing on Southfield and Pontiac. They’re now...