Every once in a while someone I don’t know hands me something and asks me to publish it on this site. Until today, however, I don’t think that I’ve actually ever done it. I’ve never taken something that I’ve found scrawled on a piece of paper and stuck in my mailbox, and posted it. An […]
Tag Archives: Habitat for Humanity
The Danger (re)Zone… the unsellable houses of Bell Street
Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Bell Street, Bonnie Wessler, contamination, environmental injustice, environmental racism, Erin Snyder, fair housing, Huron Street, landfills, PMD, poverty, Production Manufacturing Distribution, property values, soil contamination, Spring Street, toxic environment, Ypsilanti Housing Commission, Ypsilanti Planning Commission, Ypsilanti real estate, zoning, Zoning Board of Appeals 45 Comments
Ypsilanti Township official calls the proposed Water Street Flats low-income housing development a “terrible waste of taxpayer dollars” that will be disastrous for Ypsi… Does she have a point?
Yesterday, Ypsilanti Township Clerk Karen Lovejoy Roe took it upon herself to send her thoughts on our proposed downtown low-income housing development, Water Street Flats, to members of both the Township Board of Trustees and our City Council. You can find her entire letter on Councilman Brian Robb’s website. For those of you who don’t […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Karen Lovejoy Roe, low-income housing, MSHDA, Nicole Markovits, poverty, Save Ypsilanti's Water Street, Scott Straley, section 8, Ypsilanti Township 61 Comments