April 17, 2015 | Detroit Free Press
Potential homeowners who have been stymied by Detroit’s low real-estate values have a new path to home ownership in a mortgage program that offers easier rules for eligibility, lower interest rates and the ability to include money to rehabilitate homes.
On Thursday, Detroit Mayor Mike Dugann unveiled details of the plan, which he said will address some of the biggest problems that stop people from getting loans on Detroit […]
April 15, 2015 | MLPP
Low-income families and communities of color are disproportionately affected by high energy costs and pollutants from coal-burning power plants in Michigan, suffering more health problems such as asthma and spending a larger chunk of their income on electricity bills.
April 15, 2015 | Center for Community Progress
The Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference is the premier gathering of leaders from across the country exploring innovative solutions for tackling vacant, abandoned and problem properties. In 2015, we’re bringing the sixth Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference to Detroit!
April 11, 2015 | Detroit Free Press
LANSING – At 11:59 p.m. Friday, the state departments of Community Health and Human Services officially merged, becoming the Department of Health and Human Services.
The creation of the state’s largest department — with 14,010 employees — came and went without significant challenge, fanfare or commemoration, although the new department is expected to quietly mark the merger at some point next week. And Director Nick Lyon has been traveling […]
April 1st, 2015 | NPR
GHHI has long been an advocate for healthy housing, realizing the crucial role it plays in determining health, social and economic outcomes. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, NPR and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health recently called attention to the importance of healthy housing and other factors in their new study and webcast series “What Shapes Health?” Follow this series to […]
March 31st, 2015 | the Detroit Free Press
Federal officials are to announce Tuesday they’ve ended oversight of the once-troubled Detroit Housing Commission.
Julian Castro, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, plans to make the announcement with Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan at his side, according to a HUD news release.
March 25th, 2015 | The EPA Asthma Team
DA new study challenges the widely held belief that inner-city children have a higher risk of asthma simply because of where they live. Race, ethnicity and income have much stronger effects on asthma risk than where children live, the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center researchers reported. The investigators looked at more than 23,000 children, aged 6 to 17, across the United States and found that asthma rates were […]
March 25th, 2015 | JAMA Psychiatry
Our findings suggest that prenatal exposure to PAH air pollutants contributes to slower processing speed, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms, and externalizing problems in urban youth by disrupting the development of left hemisphere white matter, whereas postnatal PAH exposure contributes to additional disturbances in the development of white matter in dorsal prefrontal regions.
March 25th, 2015 | The Michigan League for Public Policy
Pushing families further into poverty will not increase school attendance rates. The Michigan Legislature is considering House Bill 4041 that would codify current Depart ment of Human Services policy that terminates Family Independence Program, or cash assistance, for an entire family if a child between the ages of 6 and 15 is considered to be truant by their local school district. An entire family is punished […]
March 15, 2015
On Saturday, March 14th, Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Detroit-Wayne County (GHHI Detroit-Wayne County) welcomed over 200 Southwest Detroit residents and children to its first ever Green & Healthy Homes Day. The event was held at Harms Elementary School and opening remarks were given by Council Member Castaneda-Lopez of Detroit’s 6th district and Eric Johnson, GHHI Detroit-Wayne County Co-Chair and Chief of Housing […]