A range of neighbor-to-neighbor efforts address basic needs that aren’t met by local government.
Jessica Ramirez in front of the storefront that houses Detroiters Helping Each Other (DHEO). Credit: Kevon Paynter for YES! Magazine. All rights reserved.
A multitude of voicemails and text messages from desperate neighbors flooded Jessica Ramirez’s cell phone on a brisk morning in October 2013. Winter was coming.
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