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The city has said that 50% of Detroiters are denied home weatherization grants because of bad roofs. BridgeDetroit is powered by generous grant support from the Knight, Ford, Erb, Skillman, Kresge, Wilson, McGregor, and Hudson-Webber foundations, the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan, and Facebook. Grannemann said the Gilbert Foundation received 150,000 calls within the first 48 hours after the program launched and 250,000 calls in the first week.
Community organizations and researchers have said the scale of repair needs in Detroit is immense, and available programs are difficult to tap into. "We have watched literally hundreds of thousands of Detroiters move out of the city in the last 20 or 25 years. We wanted to prioritize the homeowners who stayed and reward them for doing that," Mayor Mike Duggan said at a news conference Thursday. It's all funded through donations, with some of the workers coming through Detroit Rescue Mission employment programs, like Daryl Washington. Now, a new program aimed at keeping seniors safe and in their homes is here to help. She has a twin sister who lives nearby, but it's her caregivers who say her home needs some work. It's getting more difficult to get her to the doctor because her front and back porches are falling apart.
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Those who previously qualified for the Detroit Tax Relief Fund in 2022 will also be eligible for the Detroit home repair fund. Part of the campaign is to make sure homes within the city thrive and not end up condemned like so many others. Approved applicants of the new program are slated to be notified by Feb. 1, 2022, and repairs are expected to begin in the spring of that year and completed within two years. Regardless of income, homeowners in HUD designated areas in each city council district can still apply.See the map.
Are you concerned your home may have some health hazards that are impacting the quality of life of your family and/or those who visit your home? If so, Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Detroit-Wayne County has developed a free, secure, and confidential surveyto help identify health hazards and the resources to help remove them. Nushrat Rahman covers issues related to economic mobility for the Detroit Free Press and Bridge Detroitas a corps member with Report for America, an initiative of The GroundTruth Project. The city is looking to hire Detroit-based contractors to perform the repairs, Duggan said.
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Creating stronger neighborhoods by providing 0% interest home repair loans to Detroit homeowners. The next one is a 96-year-old who needs a new furnace and another one who needs some roofing repairs. "I always say I thank god. He has helped me to be able to live this long," she said. "My husband and my daughter and I, we have a lot of good times to remember and I want to continue to stay here."
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Assistance with completing the application will be available at intake centers. The next phase of the program will include at least 500 homes, although the type of repairs hasn't been determined. "We estimated that out to be about $2.87 million in roof repair need just in one neighborhood, so sort of multiply that across the city and you can see the need is absolutely enormous," he said. Eisenberg's report found roofing to be the most common need in 2019 among participants of a home repair program by the United Community Housing Coalition and partners, which provided emergency grants and homeowner education. Advocates and residents who spoke with BridgeDetroit said the home repair crisis poses a public health threat.
“We are about to break a cycle that has trapped thousands of Detroit residents over the last two decades. They either live in unsafe homes because they can’t afford critical home repair resources, or they leave their properties,” Grannemann said. Residents in Detroit's Islandview neighborhood and East Davison Village have even taken matters into their own hands recently, by raising money online for critical home repairs. Across the country, 51% of households live in homes built before 1980, compared with 90% in Detroit and 68% in metro Detroit, a recent report from the Washington, D.C.-based Urban Institute found.
Lifelong resident Samela Dean is a senior, disabled and qualifies for a property tax exemption for low-income residents, which made her a prime candidate for the city’s Renew Detroit Home Repair Program. The $45 million effort intends to help 2,000 low-income Detroiters fix up their homes over the next four years. A second phase of the program opened in October – and will include window replacements. Detroiters must submit their property tax exemption applications by Nov. 12 and must be approved by Dec. 14 to be eligible for the repair program. The roof repairs are expected to cost $20 million, with each project estimated to cost between $7,000 and $13,000.
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The program is currently going through phase one of assessing and approving 1,100 homes for roof replacement, which are expected to begin in September. Josh Elling, CEO of Jefferson East Inc., said he's happy to see the city directing money toward the issue of home repairs and commended the design of the program. Daisy Jackson, vice president of the Field Street Block Club in Detroit's Islandview neighborhood, said that $30 million is not nearly enough to address the need for home repairs and that it shouldn't be restricted to seniors and those with disabilities.
“You have years where people had to pay over assessed property taxes that we illegally assessed on their property instead of keeping up with their homes,” Ford said. “Then you also had a climate event last year when our basements flooded and we had people that have new furnaces that they bought and paid for that they couldn’t use. Donna Givens-Davidson, president and CEO of the Eastside Community Network, said the failure of banks to lend in communities with low property values is essentially a modern form of red-lining. Black Detroiters have not had the same opportunities to purchase affordable homes, Givens-Davidson said, and discrimination in both housing and employment leaves them with reduced income with which to make repairs.
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