Tag: Housing

Champaign native, health care professional becomes newest Habitat homeowner | Housing

January 13, 2022 Sharika Soukup

URBANA — At long last, Breiona Marrissette has her home. It’s here, more than two years after she filed the real-estate agreement and put in hundreds of hours laboring with Habitat for Humanity staff and local volunteers to bring it to fruition. “It’s been a long process,” said the Champaign native. “It’s just a happy…

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Older people released from Colorado prisons struggle with health insurance, housing

January 3, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Epifanio Nieto was riding a bus in September when his body suddenly stopped working — he tried to use his hand but couldn’t, and then he started to fall. The driver stopped the bus, saying “I think you’re having a stroke.” An ambulance was called, and Nieto, 73, spent seven days in the hospital. When he…

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Detroit breaks ground on first Healthy Housing Center for homeless

December 3, 2021 Sharika Soukup

DETROIT – The City of Detroit has broken ground on the second and final phase of the city’s first Healthy Housing Center (DHHC), that will offer shelter and other services to people experiencing homelessness. Neighborhood Service Organization (NSO) and Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan were among those at the ground breaking ceremony at the site, located…

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