Study finds housing-first model improves overall well-being
Community Rebuilders report shows permanent supportive housing worked for 47 households studied. Courtesy Community Rebuilders
A nonprofit that provides permanent supportive housing for low-income, physically or mentally disabled, and long-term homeless families in Kent County published a study that shows its programs are improving consumer well-being over time.
Grand Rapids-based Community Rebuilders engaged Public Sector Consultants to conduct a Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) Evaluation Report, prepared this spring, that evaluated a sample size of 47 households in Kent County that have been served by Community Rebuilders’ PSH programs.
As funding for the full evaluation was provided by a grant through Spectrum Health Healthier Communities, most of the households included in the sample size 35 were located in Spectrum Health Healthier Communities’ Neighborhoods of Focus (see graphic), which are 17 low-inc
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When the owners of iconic jazz club El Chapultepec decided to close the business for good in December, rumors spread about the future of the legendary spot: Would the building be torn down and replaced with a condo complex? Could someone buy the El Chapultepec name and keep the club going? Or would anyone have the moxie to take over the space and create something new?
The family of Jerry Krantz, who d run the Pec for decades, decided not to sell the business and just shut it down. But they didn t own its home Evan Makovsky, co-owner of Shames Makovsky Realty Company, bought the building at 1962 Market Street after Krantz died, leasing it back to his family and since the structure is in a historic district, it isn’t going anywhere (though there s plenty of construction next door at the future home of Dierks Bentley s Whiskey Row).