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Cass Community Social Services of Detroit, a non-profit, has been working on building 25 undersize Detroit homes, 250 to 400 square feet, for low and moderate income people.
So far, seven have been built, according to Jeffrey Brown of PBS News Hour.
The homes are being building in an area bounded by the John C. Lodge Service Drive on the east, Elmhurst Street on the south, Woodrow Wilson Street on the west and Cortland Street on the north.
Each costs an estimated $40,000 to $50,000, and a few will have loft space. They're for tenants who make as little as $9,000 a year ($750 a month). After seven years, residents "earn" ownership. Rent is about $1 per square foot.
Renters will include former homeless people, college students and the elderly.
The project cost is about $1.2 million. Ford Motor Co. and its charitable fund gave $400,000 to the project. The RNR Foundation of Plymouth provided a $65,000 grant.
Here's the seven-minute report: