A long time refrain on this forum regarding development in Detroit had been, "What about the neighborhoods?" This extensive article in today's Free Press details some of that effort.

This is a boring read next to sensational downtown projects but if you read down further it addresses many pressing needs for affordable ownership and rental and such things as bringing properties up to code. ["University of Michigan's Poverty Solutions initiative found that about 6% of Detroit's approximately 87,000 rental properties had a certificate of compliance, as of March 15"]

https://freep-mi.newsmemory.com?publ...af7717_1348556

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Detroit City Council members joined Mayor Mike Duggan and nonprofit leaders to introduce the plan, which includes a range of programs, from renovating Detroit Land Bank Authority properties to offering down payment assistance to 600 Detroiters.

“We built a lot of affordable housing, we've converted a lot of vacant land bank homes, we've preserved every affordable unit we have, but there is no question, affordable housing is a more urgent issue than it has been in this city in many decades,” Duggan said during a news conference in front of a city-owned building in the Dexter-Linwood neighborhood.

The building, which has been vacant for about a decade, is slated to become subsidized housing as part of the plan.
Many of the programs are backed by federal pandemic recovery aid the city received last year. The funding for the plan is through this year, Duggan said.

“There's going to have to be at least $500 million of public money over the next three years and a lot of private money to go with it,” he said.