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Community groups press council for social housing, cite evictions and gaps in shelter services
Summary
Multiple speakers during public comment urged Detroit leaders to pursue social housing and permanent affordability, described gaps in emergency shelter services, and called for stronger tenant protections; grassroots groups and residents recounted struggle with evictions, CAM wait lists and homelessness.
Dozens of residents and organizers used the council’s public-comment period to press for an expanded municipal response to housing insecurity, urging permanent affordability options commonly described as “social housing” and stronger tenant protections.
Speakers representing or affiliated with Detroit People’s Platform, Detroit Tenant Association and other grassroots groups said the city’s current mix of programs and private development fails to protect residents from displacement and homelessness. “We need housing that is permanently affordable, publicly funded, and community controlled,” said a spokesperson for the Detroit Tenant Association…
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