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	<title>Facing the Mortgage Crisis</title>
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	<description>Information and resources on foreclosure in Michigan, brought to you by Michigan Radio and Detroit Public TV</description>
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		<title>The Future Design of Detroit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jennifer Guerra
You&#8217;re going to hear the words asset and opportunity a lot in this story. And frankly, that&#8217;s a pretty welcome surprise. It&#8217;s not often you hear those words associated with Detroit these days. 
But don&#8217;t tell that to Charles Cross, Chandra Moore, and Virginia Stanard. They all work at the Detroit Collaborative Design [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://facingthemortgagecrisis.org/?p=765</link>
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		<title>New Photo Essay on Michigan Radio Picture Project</title>
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Michigan Radio manages another site called the Michigan Radio Picture Project with the editing help of photographers Eric Smith and Doug Aikenhead. This week we published a photo essay entitled &#8220;Home,&#8221; containing photos by Michigan photographer Austin R. Hermann. 
Hermann describes the collection as &#8220;a pictographic examination of Michigan&#8217;s current economic housing crisis, with interviews [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://facingthemortgagecrisis.org/?p=778</link>
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		<title>Program Helps People Buy Foreclosed Homes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jennifer Guerra
The federal government doled out nearly $4 billion towards the Neighborhood Stabilization Program last year. The program was designed to stabilize communities hardest hit by foreclosures. Michigan got more than $98 million in NSP money. As part of our Facing the Mortgage Crisis series, Michigan Radio&#8217;s Jennifer Guerra checks in with one county [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://facingthemortgagecrisis.org/?p=761</link>
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		<title>An Artistic Approach to Neighborhood Stabilization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jennifer Guerra
Earlier this year Michigan Radio&#8217;s Jennifer Guerra introduced us to an artist named Mitch Cope. He and his wife live in a working-class neighborhood in Detroit. It&#8217;s pretty mixed: Polish and Ukranian families, lots of Bangledeshi immigrants. Not to mention quite a few drug dealers. Here&#8217; s what Cope had to say about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://facingthemortgagecrisis.org/?p=709</link>
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		<title>The Greening of a City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jennifer Guerra
Joanne Palek and her brother, Richard, have lived on West Court Street in Flint for 10 years. A few years ago, the abandoned house next door burned down. So they bought the empty lot from the Genesee County Land Bank for exactly $1.00, and then they started to plant.

&#8220;We had carrots, we had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://facingthemortgagecrisis.org/?p=706</link>
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		<title>Aging Out of Foster Care and Into Affordable Housing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jennifer Guerra
The Vista Maria campus for girls has gorgeous brick buildings spread out over 37 acres. You could easily mistake it for a boarding school out east. There&#8217;s the big lawn out front. Volleyball courts behind each hall. Inside, you&#8217;ll find some girls watching a movie, others are working out, and some are getting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://facingthemortgagecrisis.org/?p=693</link>
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		<title>Special Reports and Town Hall Event</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ann Arbor, Mich.—As part of the “Facing the Mortgage Crisis” community engagement initiative, Michigan Radio will air a series of special reports dealing with southeast Michigan&#8217;s foreclosure situation, and also host a free mortgage foreclosure town hall event in Oakland County.

In the news reports, which will air the week of Nov. 9 during Morning Edition [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://facingthemortgagecrisis.org/?p=673</link>
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		<title>Upcoming Town Hall Meetings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are a homeowner concerned about foreclosure, join us for one of these upcoming Facing the Mortgage Crisis town hall meetings. You can talk with experts about the foreclosure timeline and process, and find out resources available to help prevent foreclosure.
Tuesday, Oct. 6 &#8211; 7pm 
William P. Faust Public Library of Westland
6123 Central City [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://facingthemortgagecrisis.org/?p=656</link>
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		<title>MSU Extension Seminars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MSU Extension has three upcoming seminars where you can get housing advice.]]></description>
		<link>http://facingthemortgagecrisis.org/?p=653</link>
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		<title>Rebroadcast of Special Show on DPTV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Detroit Public TV will rebroadcast their special program for Facing the Mortgage Crisis at 10 p.m. on Tuesday, September 8. ]]></description>
		<link>http://facingthemortgagecrisis.org/?p=648</link>
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