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In-depth, revelatory enterprise reporting for The Detroit News and The Wall Street Journal.

Data-focused and shoe-leather reporting on one of the key issues of our time.

Bringing analytical and breaking-news lenses to crime in metro Detroit.

Using rigorous statistical techniques to decode our political moment.

Enterprise reporting on housing, poverty and business growth in metro Detroit.

Data-based reporting on K-12 schools and higher education in Michigan.

Ben Warren is the data reporter at The Detroit News. He previously worked on the data team at The Wall Street Journal.

Ben Warren | Data Reporter

Rent is rising across Michigan, with mid-size cities like Lansing seeing the steepest increases. Learn why housing costs are soaring and what lawmakers are doing to address the affordability crisis.

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Rents are rising fast in Michigan's mid-size cities. Here's why.