Southwest Solutions is a relatively large nonprofit based in Southwest Detroit that provides social services, including education, healthcare, community organizing, housing, and counseling. It manages 30 buildings and over 600 units (google map) that include supportive housing and other programs. 

Founded in 1970 (or 1973, according to another page on the SWSOL site) by Monsignor Clement Kern as a mental health agency that would serve people deinstitutionalized by the State in the 1970s.  John Van Camp is the executive director, a position he has held since 1981.

Primary programs

• Adult counseling: serves adults with mental illness. 
• Early childhood & family literacy: K-3 & adult programs
• Children, youth, & family: serves adjudicated youth and youth with emotional disorders. 
• Supportive housing: permanent housing and services for homeless individuals & families
• Housing & real estate development: construction & renovation
• Property management
• Housing opportunity center: financial counseling 
• Center for working families: jobs training, financial counseling