rental assistance

Many renters in Detroit are living in unsafe homes. Moldy walls, water backed up in the basement, broken porch steps and a lack of hot water can make a home unsafe. But renters do have options to get their landlord to fix the issues.

Michigan Radio consulted residents, lawyers, academics, and activists to round up what renters can do to protect themselves when building problems go unaddressed.

Stagnant gun reform in the Michigan Senate. Then, two reporters talk about the eviction crisis in Detroit. Also, analyzing the impact gas prices will have on consumers and businesses.

Piles of federal cash await economically stressed Michigan renters—do they know how to get it? Also, what one Grand Rapids artist learned from listening in, and Rashaun Rucker’s new exhibition channels the surveillance and vulnerability experienced by Black men and pigeons.

The federal ban on evictions has expired, but people in Michigan can still get help paying their rent.The state has more than half a billion dollars…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's federal moratorium on evictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic is set to expire at the end of the month.…

A federally funded program providing rental assistance to Michiganders is focusing on getting payments to people at the highest-risk of being evicted,…

Starting this week, Michiganders can get emergency COVID-19 rental and utility assistance through the Michigan State Housing Development Authority. To be…

Michigan is set to receive $622,794,676 from the federal government for emergency rent and utility payments during the COVID-19 pandemic. The House…