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Residents press council for senior accessibility home repairs and corridor investments
Summary
Speakers at the Detroit City Council budget hearing urged the council to fund senior accessibility programs, home repairs (including walk-in showers), and neighborhood corridor projects; DeSoto Ellsworth Block Association requested assistance covering nonprofit incorporation fees and local landscaping materials.
Detroit
Several residents used public comment during a Detroit City Council budget hearing to request funding for senior accessibility programs, home repairs for residents with disabilities and investment in neighborhood corridors that have been left out of recent streetscape work.
Why it matters: Speakers said small capital supports such as walk-in showers, landscaping boulders and nonprofit start-up costs would improve safety and livability for seniors and volunteer-led neighborhood groups in underfunded corridors.
Betty A. Varner, president of the DeSoto Ellsworth Block…
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