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Detroit has demolished roughly 27,000 abandoned houses and sold another 19,000 formerly vacant homes since Mayor Mike Duggan took office in 2014 and embarked on what became one…
Read more Detroit demolished 27,000 abandoned homes under Duggan as Land Bank inventory dwindles – Detroit Metro TimesFifty years after Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young created a civilian oversight board to monitor the city’s police department, the commission has drifted far from its original mission,…
Read more Detroit’s flawed police commission is failing to hold cops accountableThe city of Detroit is rectifying its failure to properly administer federal funding for a program designed to support entrepreneurs by renovating eight lower-income apartment buildings and keeping…
Read more Detroit corrects funding failures by renovating low-income apartmentsDetroit homeowners are nearing the truth about whether their houses are still being overtaxed after the city council on Tuesday approved hiring an independent auditor to review property…
Read more Is Detroit still cheating homeowners on taxes? New audit to find out.click to enlarge Steve Neavling Downtown Detroit is buzzing with new businesses, lofts, and entertainment, but the city’s neighborhoods continue to struggle. You may have woken up Thursday…
Read more Detroit’s population growth masks glaring racial disparitiesMaybe that new Detroit sign along I-94 isn’t so bad after all. A week after the city was hammered with criticism on social media for spending more than…
Read more Now that it’s lit up, people seem to like Detroit’s new I-94 signTwo influential disability justice groups have joined forces to launch a campaign calling for “substantial increases” in funding for people with disabilities in Detroit. The objective of Fund…
Read more Disability justice groups demand more resources in Detroit’s budgetSteve Neavling The Spirit of Detroit statute outside of city hall. The Detroit City Council is calling for a reduction in property taxes for low-valued homes and a…
Read more Detroit City Council takes action after study suggests lowest valued homes were overtaxedA week after the city of Detroit alerted residents in a last-minute Zoom meeting that it was closing a waterfront park on the east side after finding contamination…
Read more Detroit suspiciously quiet about contamination found at missile-related site-turned-park
