One of Detroit’s most powerful families is displacing east side residents

[JBMcB]

So when the city was buying up the land for the new bridge,the residents had 2 choices accept the offer or the city would take the property.

At the conference the mayor told manufacturers,If you want to set up a factory in the city of Detroit,I will make sure the land you need is available one way or another.

The mayor can say whatever he wants. In Michigan, you can't use eminent domain to take private land for private use.

http://www.legislature.mi.gov/[[S[[g...cl-Article-X-2

[Richard]

The mayor can say whatever he wants. In Michigan, you can't use eminent domain to take private land for private use.

http://www.legislature.mi.gov/[[S[[gsgtexabyzfvgmzvcvg1qpjy))/mileg.aspx?page=GetObject&objectname=mcl-Article-X-2

Yes but they have other methods

In 2014 the administration in charge at the federal level came up with a new Neighborhood initiative,the goal was to have diverse neighborhoods so you had to have equal races in each neighborhood.

If you as a city did not work in doing that the feds would not send anymore HUD money.

So if a neighborhood was a majority white the city was supposed to encourage the percentage to move.

HUD provided a whole list of ways or suggestions as to how the city could encourage the residents to relocate.

One of the ways listed was to have code enforcement and other city officials center in on a particular property in order to encourage the resident to leave.

In that quest to make every neighborhood racially diverse the ones that got hit the worst was low income African Americans who could not afford to fight it and many lost their long time homes.

It was not publicized much but if I remember correctly it was number 12 on the list of things that an immediate halt was put on the first day in office in 2017 when the administration changed.

To little to late for many.