Detroit’s new human services leaders Luke Shaefer and Benita Miller talk about how they’ll fight poverty and homelessness ...

The Department of Human, Homeless and Family Services, which will get going with $41 million from the Housing and Revitalization Department budget, takes over a variety of "people-centered issues.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On her first day as Detroit's mayor, Mary Sheffield — the first woman elected to lead the city in its more than 300-year history — ...

Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield focused her first full week on the job on poverty ― the most pressing challenge facing the city’s residents and the one issue that could define her entire tenure in office ...

Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield never thought growing up she would be first woman to lead the city. Sheffield aims to boost several housing initiatives in her administration and address other quality of ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. As part of an effort to address quality of life issues for ...

Detroit's new anti-poverty chief, Luke Shaefer, plans to build on the city's momentum by making targeted changes to systems that work against low-income families. Why it matters: Poverty can be ...

Detroit had approximately 18 Black-owned or Black-operated hospitals during the 1940s and ’1950s. Their decline followed ...

The city life isn’t cutting it for many families that once called major metropolises like Atlanta, Chicago and Cleveland home. But Detroit has been hit the hardest, losing a staggering amount of its ...

Mayor Mary Sheffield today tapped Ali Abazeed, the founding director of Dearborn’s Department of Public Health, as Detroit’s new chief public health officer. He will replace Denise Fair Razo and join ...