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Community Health Corps provides resources, support to Detroiters in need
Community Health Corps provides Detroiters with resources, including housing help, mental health support, food, and more.
DETROIT (FOX 2) - An organization in Detroit is helping people living in poverty.
Community Health Corps provides Detroiters with housing, food, mental health resources, and utility support. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the organization has helped people find homes, repair their homes, get jobs, improve literacy, and more. When people first learned about our program in early November, our phones blew up, said deputy director David Bowser. Everybody needed help and they do need help.
City of Detroit helping 80-year-old woman who had raw sewage in her basement, family says
Victims of June flooding on edge over forecast of more heavy rain this weekend
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July 15, 2021 7:53 pm
DETROIT – It’s been a roller coaster for Donna Marks, Damita Pitman and their 80-year-old aunt, Rosetta.
“I’m feeling a lot better because we were hopeless,” Pitman said.
The city’s Community Health Corps was able to provide temporary alternative housing for the two women, but 80-year-old Rosetta is now under a doctor’s care in the hospital.
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Members of the American Red Cross also came by to make sure everything was fine. Thankfully, the 80-year-old is expected to be OK.
May 25, 2021 08:39 PM
Duggan lays out ideas for spending federal windfall: $100 million to address poverty, $100 million in neighborhood investment
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Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan addresses residents in a Tuesday evening speech laying out how the city could spend $826 million in federal aid through President Joe Biden s American Rescue Plan Act. Duggan also took comment from callers.
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan s administration plans to spend nearly half its massive federal aid package filling holes in its budget, leaving $426 million for strategies to increase access to the middle class.
In a virtual speech Tuesday night, the second-term Democrat vying for a third laid out his vision for what Detroit could do with the $826 million it s getting through President Joe Biden s American Rescue Plan Act to help cities recover. Detroit is getting the fifth highest amount of any city in the country. It receives the first half soon, then the second half in a year, and mu
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Millions of dollars are expected to be spread across Detroit as early as July 1, Mayor Mike Duggan said at a Tuesday community meeting addressing where $413 million in COVID-19 pandemic-related funds will be distributed.
Duggan proposed investing $100 million in fighting intergenerational poverty, $100 million in restoring neighborhoods, $100 million to improve parks, recreation and cultural facilities, $50 million to enhance public safety, $50 million to close the digital divide and $26 million toward small business assistance.
City council, which will have to approve where the funds go, could do so by June 30.
Detroit expects to receive $826 million in federal funding to address challenges across the city but rules apply for where it can be distributed.