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Candidates to be the next mayor of Detroit want to help build back neighborhoods. A real estate policy expert has some ideas.
Attracting immigrants is key to growing and maintaining a more resilient economy in former industrial cities like Detroit.
Building a stronger Detroit means stabilizing housing, using vacant land to benefit the public and investing in social infrastructure.
Fewer people in Detroit are experiencing homelessness – but more kids are. Of those kids, a growing number have no safe place to sleep inside.
These aren’t abstract problems. They’re happening right now, in real communities, to real people.
Foreign investment thrives on stability. Trump’s tariffs − and the current climate of uncertainty − could drive capital away.
Detroit’s Black population grew sixfold from 1910 to 1920, and many businesses that sprouted to welcome the newcomers flourished.
Tearing down abandoned homes has proven benefits, such as reducing crime and toxic materials, but it doesn’t pay for itself.
Both genres recently celebrated big birthdays. From their origins in the clubs and jams of the 1970s and 1980s, house and hip-hop have become global cultural forces.
A first-of-its-kind study documents the scope and impact of evictions on Black women and families in metro Detroit.
Officials have confirmed eight new outbreaks in Michigan poultry flocks since mid-December.
Trial lawyers, like artists, have to connect with different audiences and push them to look at legal issues, people and ideologies in new ways.
19 US cities have introduced local reparations initiatives to address historic harms against Black residents. But designing a program that is both popular and sustainable isn’t easy.
As Detroit civil rights leaders in the 1960s deliberated how to harness white support for the movement, they struck upon an innovation that would strengthen the fight for civil rights across the US.
By playing with scale, Massey brings new attention to everyday objects.
Donald Trump’s false claims about Haitian immigrants echo an enduring element in the history of American housing − that certain people don’t belong in certain neighborhoods.
A professor of urban journalism explains what the national press has overlooked about Detroit’s grit and revival.
‘The chief objection to Michigander is that it inspires idiots to call a Michigan woman a Michigoose and a child a Michigosling,’ the American essayist H.L. Mencken wrote in 1947.
The union averted a small-scale strike at a Ford factory, but tensions with Stellantis have not eased.
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