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Council asks law staff to study winter eviction moratoria and emergency tenant protections
Summary
After public commenters described evictions and a homeless mother seeking shelter, the council assigned the Law Department and Legislative Policy Division to research whether a city ordinance or mayoral executive order could pause evictions or utility shutoffs during frigid weather and report back.
A wave of public comments about recent evictions and a caller who said she and her two children were made homeless during a snowstorm prompted Detroit City Council members to seek legal options for winter-time protections.
Unique Edwards, who said she and her children were evicted in late January during a snowstorm, described being removed from a three-bedroom home and losing possessions, and asked the council for help finding shelter and legal remedies. "I was evicted during a snowstorm," Edwards said; council members offered immediate contact numbers…
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