Flint pastor builds laundromat to counter ‘hygiene poverty’

The nearest laundry facility to Good Church is technically just under three and a half miles away, but lead pastor Leo Robinson II rounds up.

After all, if most of your congregation in Flint, Michigan, relies on public transportation, three and a half miles might as well be four—or 30—when it comes to doing a load of laundry.

“Over 75 percent of our people in this area depend on public transportation, so you can only imagine taking all of your clothes, getting on the MTA to go to the laundromat to sit for three or four hours to do your laundry, and then come back on that bus route,” the Flint native said, standing in the church’s basement and soon-to-be affordable laundromat, Good Laundry. “That’s taking up most of your day.”