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City officials said the three development projects will reserve more than 160 apartments as “deeply affordable.” That means a two-person household with a total income of less than $19,000 per year would be able to live there.
Detroit is receiving $30 million in federal funding to build 840 new housing units with 500 set aside under the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development’s “affordable” housing guidelines in Corktown.
The city was selected by HUD as part of the Choice Neighborhoods program, and the money will toward three projects in the neighborhood, including new apartments near the Michigan Central Station on Michigan Avenue. Ford is building a new 30-acre campus in Corktown.
‘Health-harming’ PFAS chemicals ‘widespread’ in disposable food packaging A new study has highlighted the ‘widespread’ use of ‘health-harming’ per- and polyfuoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in disposable food packaging.
Research conducted by eight civil society groups, including Czech NGO Arnika, the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) and CHEM Trust, found PFAS are ‘widely’ used in disposable food packaging.
In total, 38% of samples taken from takeaways, supermarkets and e-shops across six European countries were ‘suspected’ to have been treated with PFAS chemicals to achieve oil repellency. Seventy-six percent of samples sent for chemical analysis show ‘intentional treatment’ with PFAS. Traces of PFAS were detected in ‘all samples’ selected for lab analysis and collected in the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.