Detroit’s water affordability program gets additional funds, will go through 2025
Detroit’s water affordability plan will be able to continue to serve Detroiters for an additional year and a half after finding new funding.
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Tenants of the Detroit Housing Commission live in some of the only housing in the city guaranteed to be affordable. But properties owned by the authority keep failing inspections and homes and complexes across the city are falling apart.
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