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Advocates urge Detroit Council to declare housing emergency after tragic cold‑weather deaths
Summary
Speakers at the Third District meeting urged the City Council to treat housing insecurity as an emergency following the deaths of two children who froze, called for hotel placements and structural responses, and asked the council to prioritize housing in the upcoming budget.
Advocates at the Third District meeting asked the City Council to declare a housing emergency and to take immediate steps to shelter people, increase affordable housing investments and use emergency powers to respond to homelessness.
“Two children froze to death because they didn't have an adequate place to shelter,” Mike Shane of the Moratorium Now Coalition told the council, and he said the city should declare a state of…
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