The Detroit News.
More help is on the way for Detroit's homeless teens and young adults.
The Covenant House of Michigan is leasing 5.3 acres of land from the Archdiocese of Detroit for the next 99 years to provide emergency housing for young people in need, as well as administrative offices for the organization. The land is at Interstate 96 and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. When many of our clients come to us, they say they want to get their GED, and then we later learn they are in need of housing, food or some other form of assistance. Future campus plans include establishing a temporary housing development, a vocational training center and a charter school. The agency is also working with Detroit Medical Center officials, who have expressed their desire to open an on-site clinic.