Mayor's Office: Housing Found For Tent City Residents
Mayor Mike Duggan said Thursday that the city would have to move the campers from the park near downtown to a shelter where they can stay warm.
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Mayor Mike Duggan said Thursday that the city would have to move the campers from the park near downtown to a shelter where they can stay warm.
"One way or another we're gonna move folks into the shelters pretty soon."
Winter weather is here and that means increased danger for the homeless. One homeless man was found dead on a Pontiac front porch on New Year's Day.
"The hard part is I'm dead broke -- but it's worth more to her than to me, " Secaur said.
Detroit officials have received no complaints about the tent city and have no plans to move them from the park, said Sgt. Michael Woody, a police department spokesman.
"It really brings a lot of thought to what homeless youth have. Homeless youth don't have Land's End, North Face, Cabela's gear like we do."
While most of us can warm up in a home during these frigid temperatures, for the homeless it can be a different story.
Some citywide behavioral bans prohibit sleeping in public, begging in public, loitering, sitting or lying down in public spaces, food sharing and sleeping in vehicles, among other behaviors.
About a dozen people who lived in campsites along railroad tracks were forced to relocate after authorities used bulldozers to clear the sites.
It's an unfortunate chapter in the storied history of the old Wayne County Building in Detroit.
GM helping to find creative new uses for industrial leftovers including shipping containers, wood pallets and automotive insulation.
Police said the remains were so decomposed, it appears the 63-year-old man could have been dead inside the portable toilet for about five months.
Help Saturday for people who are homeless and less fortunate in Detroit from Project Help.
One more day for this wind chill advisory in metro Detroit with frigid temperatures and wind chill factors well below zero.
With temperatures expected at record lows - there's an effort underway to help get the homeless into shelters.
A group of teenagers got a first-hand look at what it's like to spend the night without electricity, or even a roof over their heads.
An Oakland County woman who admitted to stealing $380,000 from a program for the homeless has been sentenced to 32 months in federal prison.
"Frankly it's a safety issue and obviously a public health issue as well."
The goal for the campaign in southeast Michigan is $8.75 million ... which funds Salvation Army programs all year long.
She's founder of "Sunshine's Always Brighter With A 2nd Chance," a transitional home for homeless women and their children.
What was once an abandoned building contributing to urban blight is now part of a resurging neighborhood on Detroit's west side.
Two men who successfully fought the state's panhandling law after being arrested in Grand Rapids in 2011 will each get $6,500 as part of a $48,000 settlement with the city.
MSP Lt. Mike Shaw says where the city's homeless gather, you'll find large piles of debris.
A deeper look at homelessness statistics shows signs of an improving economy.
For weeks now, formerly homeless men and women training for their first 5K run this weekend.
