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The plan was for 40,000 properties to be taken down to allow for property values to rise and have land for new homes and office space to be built in the city. Poverty and crime continue to impact the city, and the demolition program was created in hopes to improve conditions for the people living in the urban areas of Detroit.
Detroit City Council passed two major housing proposals. One ramps up affordable housing financing and another overhauls the city's rental ordinance.
The city claims the Census Bureau is underestimating Detroit's population, which it says is 625,561, based on demolitions of abandoned structures and ignoring the restoration of vacant homes and ...
Hantz Woodlands, also known as Hantz Farms, is an urban tree farm on the lower east side of Detroit.The project has cleared more than 2,000 vacant city-owned lots, totaling more than 140 acres, and has demolished blighted homes and cleared empty lots to make way for a hardwood tree farm, bounded by E. Jefferson Avenue, Mack Avenue, St. Jean Street and Van Dyke Avenue.
Detroit is using something it has plenty of — vacant land — to produce something the city needs — clean and relatively inexpensive energy. Pending approval by the City Council, Kobylski's ...
The Detroit Land Bank Authority [1] is a public authority that owns and manages approximately 100,000 parcels of property in the city of Detroit, making it the city's largest landowner. [ 2 ] Occasionally framed as a quasi-governmental entity , the Detroit Land Bank operates a number of programs to reduce the number of Detroit properties that ...
In 2010, Detroit mayor David Bing introduced a plan to demolish approximately 10,000 of an estimated 33,000 vacant homes [60] in the city because they were "vacant, open, and dangerous". [61] The decision was driven by the reality that for financial constraints, the city's existing resources simply could not maintain providing services to all ...
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