“I need you to be a part of this community.”
More easily said than done, especially when the place in question is a poor neighborhood in Detroit.
I was spending the afternoon with the Reverend Faith Fowler, executive director of Cass Community Social Services (CCSS), a nonprofit organization that for many years has worked to transform a cluster of largely abandoned city blocks into a functioning community, an oasis of truly normal life in an urban center where a typical “normal” day may include sporadic gunfire.
What does it take to help people in our most blighted cities?