Detroit invests in Homeless to Housed initiative
Published on Jul 30, 2026, 5:11:41 PM
Total time: 00:04:42
Published on Jul 30, 2026, 5:11:41 PM
Total time: 00:04:42
The City of Detroit has announced a three year, $9.2 million investment to help unhoused families move out of emergency shelter and into stabilized housing. The Homeless to Housed initiative will provide families with 6- 12 months of rental assistance, help them find a home, and provide additional support along the way.
The program touts that it will assist up to 140 households each year with this program, which is approximately 500 Detroiters each year.
In a press conference for the program, the city’s first ever Chief Executive of Health, Human Services and Poverty Solutions Dr. Luke Shaefer says this program is about more than providing shelter. "Its about creating pathways to stability. The mayor has challenged us to build a system where homelessness is rare, brief, and non recurring.”
Shaefer also describes how they were able to fund this program. “This didn’t happen by accident...it happened because dedicated public servants were willing to rethink how we use available resources, they strategically aligned federal emergency solutions and grant funding to launch the Homeless to Housing initiative leaning into the mayor’s charge to us.”
Priority for this program will be given to families with minor children. This program is also expected to free up space in existing shelter homes to provide assistance to other Detroiters facing homelessness.
The city of Detroit is hosting a micro and small business summit on July 31 at the Wayne County Community College District Northwest Campus.
The summit is part of the Office of Contracting and Procurement, and it's part of an effort to build Detroit based micro and small business industries.
The free event will provide attendees an opportunity to interact with funders, banks, and partner organizations including Goldman Sachs, First Merchant bank, the Detroit Development Fund, the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation and the Small Business Association.
For more information and to register go to detroitmi.gov.
Detroit City FC faces Miami FC on Saturday, Aug. 1 at Pitbull Stadium in Westchester Florida. Also, the club soccer team’s development of their new home stadium broke ground earlier this month.
The AlumniFi Field will hold 15,000 seats, an increase from Keyworth stadium that only holds 7,000 seats. It will also be the city’s first soccer-specific stadium, and the state's only privately owned major sports stadium. The project also includes a 421-space parking garage and a 104-unit residential building with 76 affordable housing units.
Completion of the stadium was slated for spring of 2027 but its now slated for 2028 USL Champion season.
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And the Tigers efforts to climb up the American League Central division stalled a bit with a high scoring loss to the Baltimore Orioles yesterday 10-9.
They now face the Athletics in a 3 game weekend affair at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento, California. First pitch for tomorrow’s game is at 9:40 p.m. EST.
And on Saturday August 1 from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., the Charles H Wright Museum of African American History is hosting Talk it Out Walk it Out. This free admission event is an annual community conversation and awareness walk to highlight health disparities impacting Black women.
The event serves as a start to Black Women’s Health Month in Detroit. The event is being held at the museum.
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