DETROIT, MI – A long-vacant school in northwest Detroit, abandoned for decades and once left ransacked, is set to take on new life as housing for some of the city’s most vulnerable residents.
City leaders and housing advocates broke ground Thursday, April 9, on a $31 million project that will convert the former St. Mary of Redford school into 61 units of permanent supportive housing for people experiencing chronic homelessness.
The site has sat largely unused for more than 30 years after the high school closed in the early 1990s, becoming what officials described as a long-vacant landmark in the neighborhood…