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Detroit to send contractors to the homes of low-income residents to help with flood damage

Credit Sarah Cwiek / Michigan Radio In the wake of devastating damage brought on by historic flooding, Wayne and Washtenaw County are waiting to see if President Joe Biden will issue a presidential declaration of disaster. In the meantime, the city of Detroit will provide low-income residents with contractors to help clean and repair flood-damaged homes. Residents eligible for help from the city include homeowners with a poverty tax exemption, people with a disability, senior citizens, and people children under ten.  Mayor Mike Duggan says there were concerns among city officials, like Gary Brown, head of the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, that wealthier suburbs would hold up contractors with repairing flood-damaged homes, and preventing low-income residents from addressing their damages.

Duggan lobbies feds for disaster declaration for flood damage

View Comments Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan on Thursday pressed landlords to do their part by cleaning out debris, sanitizing flood-damaged properties and ensuring water heaters and furnaces are functioning. Starting Tuesday, July 20, the city will begin fining landlords $250 a day for failing to respond.  “That s not going to get you out of the legal obligation to do it, it s just going to put $250 a day of fines on top of it,” Duggan said.  In a briefing about Detroit s response to flood damage, Duggan said the city is also looking at short-term basement fixes that may help homeowners in flood-prone neighborhoods. He said some homes were spared from the deluge because they had sump pumps and check valves built in their basements and were perfectly dry.

Detroit seeks disaster declaration amid flooding cleanup

Detroit seeks disaster declaration amid flooding cleanup July 8, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail DETROIT (AP) City crews and residents in Detroit are continuing the cleanup from last month’s rainstorm that left streets and hundreds of basements flooded. In addition to getting basements cleared out and soggy debris removed from curbs, the city is seeking a disaster declaration from the federal government so homeowners can get financially reimbursed for losses due to flooding, Mayor Mike Duggan told reporters Thursday. The Federal Emergency Management Agency paid out more than $80 million in losses following a storm and flooding in Detroit in 2014, Duggan said. “The one this year is probably triple the size,” he said. “It is going to be an enormous amount of money, and our residents and a lot of the other communities residents suffered greatly.”

Detroit Continues Cleanup after June Floods as FEMA Tours Neighborhoods to Assess Damage

Detroit Continues Cleanup after June Floods as FEMA Tours Neighborhoods to Assess Damage
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