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Today, reading election-year tea-leaves at the Mackinac Policy Conference. Then, the end of federal pandemic aid for Michigan renters facing eviction.

In a number of Michigan cities including Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Grand Rapids, more than one in four renters are spending at least half their income on rent.

Renters can get sticker shock when they go to renew their lease and see a sharp hike in price. But that's perfectly legal in Michigan.

Here’s a timeline of events from the mid- to late-1980s, when rent control was a hot topic in Michigan.

With pandemic-era benefits winding down and the eviction moratorium ended, Detroit tenants are seeing more evictions — and housing activists and residents are demanding a series of policy efforts to better protect tenants.

This guide looks at escrow in Michigan, its risks, and what resources may be available in your area. Escrow is one of the tools tenants have to deal with housing problems when landlords are unresponsive.

Marcel "Fable" Price, a former poet laureate of Grand Rapids, launches a housing development project that aims to set up residents for long-term success.

Michigan Radio consulted residents, lawyers, academics, and activists to round up what renters can do to protect themselves when building problems go unaddressed.

Many renters in Detroit are living in unsafe homes. Moldy walls, water backed up in the basement, broken porch steps and a lack of hot water can make a home unsafe. But renters do have options to get their landlord to fix the issues.

A group of renters in Detroit has been exploring the possibility of expanding their tenants' association to a citywide coalition.