Special Reports and Town Hall Event
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’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 and All Things Considered, Michigan Radio reporter Jennifer Guerra will look at how foreclosed homes are being transformed and used. One of these involves Vista Maria, a child welfare program for girls in Dearborn Heights, which purchased a foreclosed house for girls who have aged out of their program so that they might learn to live more independently. Other featured projects include Edible Flint, a citywide attempt to transform vacant and foreclosed lots into gardens, and an update on two Detroit artists who bought a foreclosed house in their Detroit neighborhood in 2008 with the goal of turning it into an energy efficient community art center.
These and the other reports in the series will air during Morning Edition (5-9 am) and All Things Considered (4-6:30 pm) on Michigan Radio beginning Monday, Nov. 9, through Friday, Nov. 13. This series will be supplemented by an installment of the Michigan Radio Picture Project. To view the stories’ accompanying photos, visit: http://michiganradiopictureproject.org/.
In addition to its on-air coverage of foreclosure issues, the station will also host a mortgage foreclosure town hall event at the Bloomfield Township Public Library on Thursday, November 12, at 7 pm, in cooperation with Lighthouse of Oakland County. At this free event, homeowners concerned about foreclosure can talk to experts about the foreclosure process and learn about resources that can help them deal with or prevent foreclosure. Other foreclosure town hall events have been held in Southfield, Livonia, Westland, Farmington Hills and Dearborn.
For more details on this event and the other components of the Facing the Mortgage Crisis initiative, visit www.facingthemortgagecrisis.org. This website provides foreclosure resources, information from partner organizations, and opportunities for the public to offer feedback on how the crisis is affecting them.
Michigan Radio has partnered with Detroit Public TV, the United Way 2-1-1 of Southeastern Michigan, the Wayne County Mortgage Foreclosure Prevention Program, Lighthouse of Oakland County and other local organizations in order to provide the community with resources for dealing with the foreclosure crisis.
“Facing the Mortgage Crisis” is part of a national project spearheaded by KETC, a public television station based in St. Louis, MO, as well as a part of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Public Service Media Economic Response Initiative.
Michigan Radio, the public radio station of The University of Michigan, is an NPR News Station and the most-listened-to public radio service in the state, with nearly 500,000 listeners per week across southern Michigan. Michigan Radio broadcasts at 91.7 FM in southeastern Michigan, 91.1 FM in Flint, and 104.1 FM in western Michigan.
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