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Were you priced out of downtown or Midtown?
Metro Times wants to hear about your experience
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Midtown, Gentrification, Downtown, Detroit, Riverfront, Cass Corridor, Corktown, Eastern Market, apartments, rent
Detroit City Council weighs ordinance to ban evictions without ‘just cause’
In most cities, once a lease expires, landlords can remove a tenant for almost any reason
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, Detroit City Council, Coleman A. Young II, Just cause evictions, evictions, apartments, rent, right to renew
Detroit woman evicted from tiny home gets a second chance at life
Taura Brown had stage-five kidney disease when she was kicked out of her house in April
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Tiny homes, Dexter-Linwood, rent, eviction, taura brown, kidney transplant, Detroit housing
Opinion: The case for progressive policies to tackle inflation
As rent soars, it’s time for elected officials to advocate for a permanent Child Tax Credit
By Leigh Phillips and Rev. Stancy Adams
Tags: Politics & Elections, Politics & Elections, Views & Opinions, American Rescue Plan, Child Tax Credit, rent
Activists slam Detroit for missing deadline to fund right to counsel for low-income renters
The city was supposed to begin providing free legal counsel for low-income residents facing eviction
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Rent, apartments, landlords, right to counsel, Mayor Duggan, Detroit, Detroit City Council
Tensions flare over Detroit ordinance to provide lower-income tenants with free legal representation
The ordinance is intended to protect tenants from lawless slumlords
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Detroit City Council, apartments, rent, right to counsel, Detroit, landlords, Mary Sheffield, Charles Raimi, Tonya Myers Phillips, Detroit Right to Counsel Coalition
As many as 1 in 10 Detroiters facing eviction are victims of housing scams, according to report
By Jerilyn Jordan
Tags: News Hits, Detroit, foreclosure, housing scams, 2008, housing crisis, poverty, blight, landlord, Land Bank Authority
You can score $20 front-row seats for anniversary performances of 'Rent' at Detroit's Fisher Theatre
Tags: The Scene, Detroit, Broadway, Rent, anniversary, $20 tickets, Fisher Theatre, musicals, live theater
Google partners with Detroit to develop search tool for affordable housing
Tags: Detroit, Google, technology, Affordable housing, low income, poverty, Mayor Duggan, Housing & Revitalization Department
Livestream concert to help Detroiters pay rent will feature Bevlove, Little Animal, Hazy GreenSky, and others
By Lee DeVito
Tags: Bevlove, Anna Burch, Little Animal, Kelly Jean Caldwell, Hazy GreenSky, coronavirus, COVID-19, rent, Detroit
Socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 hit low-income Black households the hardest, study finds
Tags: Racism, income, households, poverty, race, Princeton University, coronavirus, food, job losses, unemployment, study
CDC orders sweeping ban on evictions due to coronavirus as thousands of Michigan tenants faced homelessness
Tags: Rent, evictions, coronavirus, apartments, Detroit, Michigan, CDC, jobs
Detroiters disproportionately impacted by coronavirus job losses, U-M survey finds
Tags: Jobs, unemployment, coronavirus, University of Michigan, Detroit, study, rent, mortgage, finances
Housing advocates press for rental and mortgage assistance program
By Suzanne Potter, Michigan News Connection
Tags: News Hits, housing, Michigan, rent
Rent strike gains traction, including in Michigan
Tags: News Hits, coronavirus, COVID-19, rent, rent strike, #CancelRent, Rashida Tlaib, Detroit
Half of Detroiters fear they'll run out of money within 3 months because of coronavirus lockdown, survey shows
Tags: Jobs, unemployment, Detroit, Michigan, coronavirus, poverty, University of Michigan, survey
Detroit's coronavirus death toll jumps by 54 — the highest spike in one day — bringing total to 326
Tags: News Hits, Coronavirus, Mayor Duggan, Detroit, poverty, testing, COVID-19, death rate, fatalities, police, firefighters, medics, Denise fair, public health
Detroit's grim coronavirus death toll has a 'glimmer of light,' Mayor Duggan says
Tags: Coronavirus, Mayor Duggan, Detroit, buses, DDOT, poverty, testing, COVID-19, death rate, fatalities, Abbott Laboratories, police, firefighters, medics, Denise fair, public health
Detroit has a higher coronavirus death rate than New York City
Tags: Coronavirus, Wayne County, death rate, health, poverty, Mayor Duggan, infections, Detroit, Gov. Whitmer, COVID-19, Michigan State Fairgrounds, testing, quarantine, testing, police, medics, firefighters, bus driver, DDOT
Detroit reports deadliest day yet for coronavirus on Sunday, with 167 deaths so far
Tags: News Hits, Coronavirus, Wayne County, Oakland County, death rate, health, poverty, Mayor Duggan, infections, Detroit, Gov. Whitmer, COVID-19, Michigan State Fairgrounds, testing
Michigan’s ‘Bikers, Buds, & Brews’ taps Marcy Playground and Soul Asylum
Detroit’s ‘NSFW’ art and music exhibit is not what you think
By Randiah Camille Green
Kash Doll, Rema, and PartyNextDoor among Afro Nation Detroit headliners