Dec 21, 2016 | News + Updates, Working Homes/Working Families
Each door that was opened brought its own special surprise. Mia Branch couldn’t believe it. Slide over the high chair in the kitchen, and Branch was already envisioning herself and her nine children having a family dinner around the dining room table. In the...
Dec 9, 2016 | News + Updates, Working Homes/Working Families
DETROIT — A day after he was awarded a house during Mitch Albom’s S.A.Y. Detroit Radiothon, retired U.S. Army veteran Leo Cooke was overwhelmed with emotion when he stepped into his new home Friday for the first time. “When I walked in, it was...
Jun 14, 2016 | News + Updates, SAY Detroit, Working Homes/Working Families
Ezell Robinson called it “a double blessing.” On Tuesday, the 55-year-old U.S. Army veteran stood in front of a new neighborhood playground
Mar 23, 2016 | News + Updates, Working Homes/Working Families
Shirley Love and her husband Montez Wilkerson of Bessemore received the keys to their new home earlier today after a fire destroyed their previous home and took the life of the their three-year-old great nephew. Since the fire nearly three months ago, the...
Dec 11, 2015 | News + Updates, Radiothon, Working Homes/Working Families
As has become tradition during each annual S.A.Y. Detroit Radiothon, three deserving families received the keys to their new homes through the Working Homes/Working Families program. The idea of Working Homes/Working Families is simple. Detroit has too many abandoned...