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The 1300 Lafayette East Cooperative is a large, 336 unit luxury housing cooperative in the Lafayette Park neighborhood of the near-east side of Detroit, Michigan.The building is notable for its address "1300" displayed in giant numerals on the North and South sides of the roof which are visible for miles in Detroit and Windsor.
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Detroit is edging dangerously close to bankruptcy, and the most obvious sign of its dramatic financial downfall lies in the ramshackle, abandoned homes that dot its neighborhoods. Michigan Gov ...
The city of Detroit is split into seven council districts. The Detroit Demolition Program targeted all of these districts. Each region had between 1,500-3,000 demolitions. [9] [10] These demolitions were contracted to numerous companies with $90 million [7] [8] going to businesses that started up in Detroit. Most of these funds come from a ...
Residents of Detroit's newly revitalized Brush Park are objecting to the latest plan for more low-income housing in their neighborhood. ... Some have paid well over $500,000 for homes — even $1 ...
According to Detroit's planning and facilities department, it was a mistake made by the state's Land Bank Fast Track Authority -- who had demolished all 12 properties as part of a program to ...
Permanent, federally funded housing came into being in the United States as a part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Title II, Section 202 of the National Industrial Recovery Act, passed June 16, 1933, directed the Public Works Administration (PWA) to develop a program for the "construction, reconstruction, alteration, or repair under public regulation or control of low-cost housing and slum ...
From historic marker on the site of Brewster Homes. Between 1910 and 1940 Detroit, Michigan's African American population increased dramatically. In 1935, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt broke ground for the Brewster Homes, the nation’s first federally funded public housing development for African Americans. The homes opened in 1938 with 701 units.