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Detroitโs lack of affordable housing pushes families to the edge – and children sometime pay the price
Detroitโs lack of affordable housing pushes families to the edge – and children sometime pay the price Detroit’s lack of affordable housing has led to a record high number of homeless children, with 455 children experiencing homelessness on Jan. 31, 2024, up from 312 the previous year. The city’s shelter system faces significant challenges, including […]
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The story of the Great Migration often overlooks Black businesses that built Detroit
The story of the Great Migration often overlooks Black businesses that built Detroit The flourishing Black business district in Detroit, Mich., photographed in 1942. Arthur S. Siegel via the Library of Congress, CC BY-ND Black businesses were essential to facilitating the Great Migration of African Americans out of the South between the 1910s and 1960s. […]
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