Stories & Insights
Keeping Detroiters Experiencing Homelessness Safe During COVID
In 2020, a year of extreme challenges, loss, and reckoning, a big story quietly and quickly unfolded in Detroit. Our city came together to keep Detroiters experiencing homelessness safe — and now, we can do more.
“Investing in Us” Report Released
Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan's "Investing in Us" report combines Detroiters’ stories and neighborhood-level improvement plans into a “unified city-wide vision of economic well-being.”
An Update from the McGregor Fund on COVID-19
2020/03/31
The McGregor Fund team is joining with public sector partners, leaders in our local social sector and funder colleagues to help ensure that community-wide responses to this crisis are swift and highly coordinated. Learn more about the steps we’re taking.
A Home is a Foundation
2019/12/18
Even when it is temporary, the experience of homelessness is traumatic and life-altering. A home is the foundation for so many aspects of life, supporting a wide range of our needs and aspirations, from basic health and safety to stable employment. Photo from The NOAH Project
Beyond Workforce Development
2019/12/18
In the city of Detroit, where the workforce participation rate hovers around 53.4 percent, a significant proportion of job seekers face multiple, critical, and interlinked barriers to employment, such as reliable transportation, affordable and quality child care — and, most vitally, stable housing. Photo from SER Metro
Homelessness is solvable. We’re committing $5 million toward it.
2019/10/30
More than 10,000 Detroiters experienced homelessness in 2018, enough to fill one quarter of Comerica Park, and representing the largest share of people experiencing homelessness in the state.
