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“At first I thought…you just paid the rent, and the rent covers everything, but then my mom, she was like, ‘Oh, you know you got the water [bill], the light [bill]?’ I'm like, ‘Whoa, whoa, what?’” says Javon Simon, a renter in Detroit. 
Can Gen Z afford to rent in Detroit?

Factors like rising housing costs, food costs, and other economic factors complicate life for Detroiters overall, but they pose high hurdles for young people looking to live on their own for the first time.

Jason Headen, Vice President of the Detroit Market at CHN Housing Partners, at a new CHN housing development on Orchard Street
Without affordable housing, some Detroiters struggle, lose stable housing

From house-burdened to homeless, Detroiters are feeling the impact of the city's affordable housing crisis.

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