homelessness

Mandi Young, a science teacher at The Pathfinder School, spent the week aboard the Lake Guardian taking water samples, working with EPA scientists, and thinking of ways to bring the experience to her students this school year. She spoke with IPR Climate Solutions Reporter Vivian La about her trip.

A new Traverse City Resilience Program group gives people experiencing homelessness a space to share experiences, find peer support and discuss local services.

License plate reading cameras are catching on in northern Michigan. Grand Traverse County has 28. Antrim County has eight, with the possibility of three more on the way.

Youth homelessness in Northwest Michigan dropped nearly 50% over the past year, continuing a long-term decline that local leaders credit to HUD's Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program, even as national rates remain steady

Two years ago, homelessness advocates in northern Michigan made a longstanding ideal a reality. We check in on the East Bay Flats, where all 64 apartments are for people experiencing homelessness. IPR’s Maxwell Howard visited the Flats to see how the ideal is actually working in practice.

Three years ago, Goodwill Northern Michigan bought the East Bay Flats apartment complex, turning a long-held concept into a reality — housing without conditions on sobriety or employment. Studies show this kind of program reduces homelessness by almost 90%. But what the day-to-day experience looks like is often less talked about.

Each year, volunteers fan out in northern Michigan — and around the country — to try and take a data snapshot: How many people are living without shelter? The point-in-time, or PIT, count provides data that informs federal funding. But where the government sends that money might soon change.

Advocates for homeless people in northwest lower Michigan consider the future after proposed changes threatened the loss of 20 permanent supportive housing units.

A task force looking at homelessness issues in Traverse City is considering the possibility of combining the area's two big overnight shelters. What would that actually look like?

In the first winter after Traverse City's ‘no camping’ ordinance, people endure winter out of view. IPR looks at where they're ending up — from shelters to shacks. Homelessness in Traverse City hasn't gone away. It's just become less visible.