More Detroiters than previously estimated are living in homes with serious home repair issues.
That’s according to a new University of Michigan survey of nearly nineteen-hundred Detroiters.
The researchers defined inadequate housing as homes with major electrical problems, broken furnaces, or a lack of hot or running water.
Lydia Wileden is a University of Michigan research associate involved in the survey. She says it appears that around 13-percent of Detroiters live in dangerously poor conditions.
Unsurprisingly, the rate of residents living in inadequate or poor-quality housing is higher than the rate in the broader metro area.”
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan recently launched a program that uses federal stimulus money to help Detroiters with home repairs.
But the program is only available to seniors, or people with disabilities.