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Mayor Mary Sheffield (Official photo)
In her first month in office, newly minted Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield has been busy implementing a number of policy changes.
According to Detroit News reporter Louis Auguilar:
By Jan. 31, she's taken steps to overhaul the city's social services department; expanded a nonprofit program into Detroit that gives cash to every new and expectant mother; created both the Office of Neighborhood and Community Safety and the Human, Homeless, and Family Services Department; instilled a new compliance program for senior citizen housing facilities; and amped up safeguards of home demolition sites, among other measures.
"We have been very serious about our commitment to addressing the issue of poverty in Detroit, uplifting the most vulnerable in our city, and ensuring that we are directly investing in people," the mayor said Jan. 12.
