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About 68 percent veterans experiencing homelessness are in cities, and 32 percent are in suburban and rural areas. About half have physical and mental illness, and about 70 percent have substance abuse problems. Slightly more than half are white males, and half of the total are older than 51 years old.
Residents have been critical of the company managing Piquette Square, a Detroit veteran housing building that's been plagued with safety issues.
Detroit is home to Michigan’s biggest apartment complex exclusively for military veterans. It promised to bring an end to veteran homelessness in Detroit — and it was billed as a shining example of wraparound care for veterans.But residents complain the complex has gone downhill.
A development team is on tap to turn one of Detroit's most visible dilapidated buildings into new housing and retail space. The estimated $134 million conversion of the Fisher Body No. 21 plant near the I-75/I-94 interchange, as currently envisioned, would create 433 apartments as well as retail…