[DetroitSky]

Ford CEO Jim Farley on new apartments for Detroit homeless: 'Band-Aids aren't enough'

A Detroit non-profit that helps unhoused people took a big step Friday toward executing an audacious long-term plan to eliminate chronic homelessness in Detroit by 2030.

Father Tim McCabe, executive director of Pope Francis Center, led the groundbreaking of a Bridge Housing Campus that will provide 40 studio apartments as temporary shelter to people for 90 to 120 days. The project will include social and job-preparation services as well as comprehensive medical care that covers physical, psychological and addiction needs.

Year after year, city officials have been discouraged to see 2,000 people looking for a warm safe place to sleep on any given night, Mayor Mike Duggan said Friday.