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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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About a year ago, a series of dams on the Tittabawassee River failed. The lakes behind the dams emptied and left thousands of people who used to have waterfront property staring out onto a dry lakebed. Now, as Brett Dahlberg reports, there are plans to refill the lakes, but they re controversial, and the results are still years away.
But under heavy rains, the upstream dams failed. Water flooded into Sanford Lake and into the homes of Deliso, his neighbors, and thousands of other people in communities along the course of the river. Then, the downstream dam failed, and the lakes emptied.
Some Michigan propane suppliers switching to rail cars in anticipation of Line 5 closure
Updated Mar 12, 2021;
Posted Mar 12, 2021
The Enbridge Mackinaw Station, where Line 5 emerges from underneath the Straits of Mackinac near Mackinaw City, on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015.The Grand Rapids Press
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Propane suppliers reliant on Enbridge’s Line 5 are transitioning to railroad cars to get their products in anticipation of the oil pipeline shutting down in May.
Several suppliers in Michigan began exploring alternatives when Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the end of an easement that allows the controversial 67-year-old pipeline to run beneath the Straits of Mackinac. From Superior, Wisconsin, Line 5 runs east to the Upper Peninsula then southeast to a Rapid River township refinery, near Escanaba, where natural gas liquids from Line 5 are stripped for propane.
Sally Talberg, former chair of the Michigan Public Service Commission, has resigned from the board of ERCOT, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, in the wake of a devastating collapse of the electric grid that provided power to more than 26 million customers.
Talberg, an unaffiliated…