March 10th, 2015 | The Detroit News
Detroit — The city’s new planning director on Tuesday shared his vision for a partnership with Detroit’s elected leaders and its residents to build “complete” neighborhoods and a thriving Detroit
Rehabilitation to Combat Unhealthy Housing
March 9th, 2015 | Green & Healthy Homes Initiative
The Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (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 in partnership with National Public Radio (NPR) and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) recently called attention to the importance of healthy housing and other factors in their new poll and webcast […]
Chemical Exposure Linked to Billions in Health Care Costs
March 5th, 2015 | National Geographic
Researchers conclude they are 99 percent certain that hormone-altering chemicals are linked to attention problems, diabetes, other health problems.
Improving Housing Can Pay Dividends In Better Health
March 3rd, 2015 | NPR
Faiza Ayesh giggles with delight as she describes her brand-new two-bedroom apartment in Oakland, Calif. She shares her home with her husband and three little girls, ages 3, 2 and 5 months. Ayesh, 30, says she just loves being a stay-at-home mom. “It’s the best job in the world.”
But Ayesh wasn’t always this happy. A little over a year ago she was living in a cramped one-bedroom apartment with her […]
A First Look at the Governor’s Fiscal Year 2016 Budget
February 24th, 2015 | Michigan League for Public Policy
Gov. Rick Snyder’s budget for Fiscal Year 2016 includes many important investments in families and children, despite lower than expected revenues…
Kids Count in Michigan Data Book 2015: Child & Family Well-Being in Michigan its Counties and Detroit.
February 19th, 2015 | Michigan League for Public Policy
While parents, families and communities play key roles in nurturing the children in their care, state and federal policymakers enact the laws and allocate the resources that shape the environment in which children and families live and grow. Decision-makers in Lansing and Washington D.C. determine priorities that inform tax and budget policies. Too often programs and policies lack a two-generation perspective. For children to thrive, their […]
Detroit Tax Foreclosure Assistance
February 19th, 2015 | Because Someone Lives Here
During the month of February, the Wayne County Treasurer’s office will host three Taxpayer Assistance Saturdays at different Wayne County Community College District campuses. There, you’ll find trained tax foreclosure prevention counselors available to provide free counseling assistance.
Explaining the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department’s latest rate hike
Feb. 12, 2015 |Clickondetroit
The snail mail will soon deliver to your mailbox unwelcome news; a higher water bill.
It’s likely your bill will jump about 10 percent. You are likely to wonder how that is possible considering under the new Metro Detroit Regional Water Authority agreement, announced as part of Detroit’s Bankruptcy exit last fall, your rate hikes would be capped at 4 percent. You remember correctly, but […]
National Housing Conference Webinar Series
February 2nd, 2015 | The National Housing Conference & Center for Housing Policy
NHC’s National Association of REALTORS® Webinar Series provides free, live and on-demand presentations on vital housing topics. This series of webinars is designed to educate the REALTOR® community across the country about affordable housing issues, policies and programs, and to help REALTORS® be better able to engage in the affordable housing issues in their communities.
In Bedbugs, Scientists See a Model of Evolution
February 2nd, 2015 | The New York Times
In the closing sentence of “The Origin of Species,” Charles Darwin marvels at the process of evolution, observing how “from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
Few people would describe bedbugs as most beautiful or most wonderful. Yet this blood-feeding pest may represent an exceptional chance to observe the emergence of Darwin’s “endless forms”: New research indicates […]