PARKER VILLAGE APRIL 2022

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THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY DECLARES HIGHLAND PARK, MICHIGAN A COMMUNITIES LEAP CITY. Highland Park, Michigan is a historic city of three-square miles completely surrounded by Detroit. It is a disinvested and racially segregated community that ranks in the 94th percentile for low-income status in the United States and where 45% of the population lives at or below the poverty line.

The community is in an energy crisis; roughly two-thirds of residents live without streetlights. While the city has continued to seek funding to get the lights replaced, the local Highland Park-based Soulardarity, a community action group, installed 17 solar streetlights to mitigate the loss of units and to restore the necessary street lighting. The majority of those solar units were placed in two local residential communities, Avalon and Parker Villages, home to Highland Parker-led sustainable community developments. The multi-stakeholder team—with engagement from Highland Park residents and city government—will partner with DOE to pursue a path toward 100% local, clean, renewable energy. The team will build on shared experience with its Pathways to Power project to advance a clean, efficient and resilient energy future for all Highland Parkers and realize transformational impacts related to energy affordability, community climate resilience, local economic empowerment, and the health and wellness of local residents.

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MI First Home Dreaming of owning a home? The Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA) has a program designed specifically for you.

• Down payment assistance (up to $7,500) • Purchase price maximum of $224,500 • Household incomes vary statewide and are determined by location and family size • Non-targeted areas: first-time homebuyers • Targeted areas: repeat and first-time homebuyers • The home must be a single family, principal residence • FHA, VA and Rural Development Guaranteed loans • Fixed-rate mortgages with 30-year terms To Get Started Contact The Whitehouse Team - Doug, Kathie, Billy & Samantha Whitehouse to learn more. You can eMail them at Team@WhitehouseS.com or phone Billy at 313-332-4088

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oulardarity is proud to be an employerpartner with Detroit Public Schools Community District and The Career and Technical Education Internship Program to assist high school students in earning real world experience that will guide them in making the best career choices for their future. Keep a watch out for our new student staff that will be joining us virtually later this month.

Communities LEAP

in Highland Park

Good news for Highland Park! Our city is one of twenty two communities that has been selected to participate in Communities LEAP (Local Energy Action Program). This opportunity is being offered through the Department of Energy’s clean energy deployment work.

To qualify, it was required to submit an extensive application to make the case. Through a collaborative effort amongst multiple stakeholders, including Highland Park Community Crisis Coalition, Soulardarity, Avalon Village, Parker Village, and Highland Park Water and Engineering Department, the city is now eligible to receive up to $500k worth of technical assistance to address the energy crisis. With engagement from Highland Park residents and city government, we will partner with DOE to pursue a path toward 100% local, clean, renewable energy.

Securing this support is a major step forward towards the goals of our Blueprint For Energy Democracy, a vision established by our Highland Park leaders in 2019.

This could not have happened without the offers of support in all the forms they came in. In addition to the community organizations of the multi-stakeholder team, letters of support from the following were included: • Representative Rashida Tlaib - Vice Chair Subcommittee on • EnvironmentState of Michigan Office of Future Mobility and Electrification • State of Michigan Public Service Commission • Union of Concerned Scientists • Polar Bear Sustainable Energy Cooperative • City of Ann Arbor Office of Sustainability and Innovation • 5 Lakes Energy • Elevate: Equity Through Climate Action • Highland Park Human Rights Coalition • Vote Solar We wanted to share this good news with our members. And we want you to know that we will be working hard to ground this process in meeting the real needs of our community - affordable rates, reliable power, healthy environment, and resilience to crisis. We can’t do it without you - so get ready to get involved!