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Poverty Solutions partnered with the State of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) to inform anti-poverty and economic mobility initiatives that enhance public benefit programs and identify pathways for sustainable employment for those with major barriers to work.

For more than three years, U-M researchers teamed with a Detroit Low Income Housing Tax Credit task force to analyze the financing and ownership to preserve decent affordable housing.

The researchers found undocumented clients encounter three phases of delay: delay in the decision to seek care, delay in identifying and traveling to healthcare facilities, and delay in receiving adequate and appropriate care at healthcare facilities.

This project developed and fielded a survey of federal Continuums of Care from March 2020 to January 2021 to better understand: how they are organized; strengths and weaknesses they face in their task to end homelessness in their jurisdictions; and how they responded to and were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

This project will compare the diverse ways in which previous experiences with Conditional Cash Transfers determined how COVID-19 cash assistance were envisioned and operationalized in Brazil and Colombia.

This case study of Washtenaw County examines the impact of the 2017 changes to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

This project assesses Michigan's Unemployment Insurance system compared to the rest of the nation.

Sixty families in Wayne County eventually engaged with the benefits coach and completed an application for benefits. Sixty-eight percent of them were approved for at least one program, and 32% were denied for their entire application.