Detroit Homelessness
Submitted by dsimmer on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 12:30
According to Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries:
- In the Detroit area, there are at least 3,700 people in need of emergency shelter on any given night. To meet the need, there should be 1,400 more beds available.
- There are less than 940 transitional housing beds for over 5,086 homeless men, women and children per night.
- Over 2,000 people live on the streets each night in abandoned buildings or “double up” with family or friends.
- Over 10,000 families in Wayne County will become homeless at least once during the next year.
- Families now constitute 26% of the number of homeless persons per year.
Heartbreaking. Let's figure out how we can help fix this.
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