(CBS DETROIT) – Finding an affordable place to live in the Metro Detroit area has gotten harder.
Metro Detroit community leaders and residents gathered at The Commons for the Detroit Right to Counsel Law meeting to weigh in on the problems and solutions people face in the housing market today.
We caught up with Detroit Council Member Mary Waters outside of the meeting.
“We don’t have enough housing. True affordable housing. That’s the problem,” Waters said.
During the meeting, people shared their stories of housing issues and what they think are contributing to today’s difficult housing market.
“People are stuck in a rental market where there’s really not much out there, which means that landlords can charge an incredible amount of money, $1,500 for something that went for $700 before COVID,” Mike Shane with the Moratorium Now Coalition said.
The issues people are facing in finding and keeping affordable housing vary and impact people differently.