Starting Nov. 16, the convention center will serve yet another purpose when it the Pope Francis Center, a day center for the city's homeless, moves into the lower level for winter, Crain's Detroit Business reports.
Donation of $300,000 made to help homeless.
You could say she’s a doctor making house calls during the COVID-19 pandemic. But all of the patients who wait every week to see Dr. Asha Shajahan, 31, of Roseville and an attending physician at Beaumont Grosse Pointe are homeless.
Closing the Pope Francis Center, a downtown Detroit day center for the homeless, in mid-March was a tough but necessary decision as the coronavirus pandemic took hold of the region.
Pope Francis Center in Detroit is renting a mobile shower unit for the homeless.
The man who raised Keith Gambrell, who loved him like a son and married his mother, died in a blue recliner of novel coronavirus in his Grosse Pointe Woods home.
The estimated 14,000 people experiencing homelessness in the city need care more than ever as COVID-19 spreads.
We often take a hot shower for granted. But in the homeless community, particularly in a time of crisis -- they're not always so easy to come by.
It’s been a month or two since Deonta Talley has been able to shower. The 36-year-old has been sleeping on the floor of a house in Detroit he has been asked to fix up, he said. There’s no electricity and no heat.
Coronavirus deaths in Detroit are among the highest in the country. As the city nears its projected peak in cases, health experts explain why the city’s underlying problems may cause worse outcomes.