A new nonprofit organization called Write a House is refurbishing three two-bedroom houses in Detroit and accepting applications for writers to move in, rent free. Their mission is to “to enliven the literary arts of Detroit by renovating homes and giving them to authors, journalists, poets, aka writers. It’s like a writer-in-residence program, only in this case we’re actually giving the writer the residence, forever.” Poets, journalists, novelists, and anyone who falls somewhere in between are encouraged to apply. If the writers stay for the required two years and fulfill other obligations, such as engaging with the city’s literary community and contributing to the program’s blog, they will get the deed to the place.

Source: The New Yorker