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Community-driven project aims to name every Detroit neighborhood

DETROITography aims to empower residents to identify their neighborhoods

By Steve Neavling
Aug 12, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, History, Detroit, DETROITography, cartography, maps, neighborhoods, Alex Hill
Metro Detroit

Detroit home values rise for sixth straight year, jumping 20% in 2022

The growth suggests that demand for homes is finally rebounding following six straight decades of population loss

By Steve Neavling
Jan 13, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, Mayor Duggan, home values, property taxes, neighborhoods, homes
Metro Detroit

More Black Detroiters are living in substandard houses after foreclosure crisis, study finds

By Steve Neavling
Oct 21, 2021

Tags: Detroit, substandard houses, University of Michigan, study, asthma, health, neighborhoods, apartments, renters, homes, abandonment
Metro Detroit

Eight more vaccination sites coming to Detroit as COVID-19 cases reach 'alarming' levels

By Steve Neavling
Apr 5, 2021

Tags: Detroit, Mayor Duggan, Denise Fair, coronavirus, vaccines, neighborhoods, Detroit Health Department
Metro Detroit

Tlaib introduces $5B bill to revitalize communities impacted by COVID-19, systemic racism

By Steve Neavling
Feb 8, 2021

Tags: Rep. Tlaib, Michigan, Detroit, Congress, Neighborhoods, systemic racism, coronavirus, Michele Oberholtzer, foreclosures, United Community Housing Coalition, Detroit People’s Platform
Metro Detroit

Detroit gets green light to begin demolishing, renovating thousands of blighted homes

By Steve Neavling
Feb 5, 2021

Tags: Prop N, Mayor Duggan, Blight, neighborhoods, Detroit, demolitions, renovations, bonds
Metro Detroit

Detroit's notorious slumlords and speculators slapped with wide-ranging lawsuit

By Steve Neavling
Feb 7, 2020

Tags: News Hits, Neighborhoods, Detroit, lawsuit, Mayor Duggan, blight, lead, abandoned, landlords, apartments
Metro Detroit

Detroit City Council to weigh Duggan's $250M plan to eliminate neighborhood blight

By Steve Neavling
Oct 28, 2019

Tags: Local News, News Hits, Mayor Duggan, Detroit, demolitions, vacant houses, neighborhoods, Detroit City Council, election, bonds
Metro Detroit

Where are you from? For some Detroiters, it's hard to explain

By Eleanore Catolico
Aug 22, 2018

Tags: News Hits, neighborhoods, Google, maps
Metro Detroit

Detroit launches first-of-its-kind government-run news site

By Violet Ikonomova
Aug 30, 2017

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, neighborhoods, website, government news, Detroit media, Aaron Foley, Mayor Mike Duggan
Metro Detroit

Five key takeaways from Mayor Duggan's State of the City

By Violet Ikonomova
Feb 22, 2017

Tags: News Hits, Detroit, Mayor Mike Duggan, State of the City, neighborhoods, downtown, development, jobs, unemployment
Metro Detroit

Detroit is home to the most Knight Cities Challenge winners

By Colleen Kowalewski
Apr 13, 2016

Tags: News Hits, Detroit, parks, neighborhoods, urban renewal
Arts

History repeats itself in Midtown vs. Cass Corridor debate

By Lee DeVito
Jan 13, 2016

Tags: The Scene, Cas Corridor, Midtown, Detroit, neighborhoods
Metro Detroit

How Paul Weertz helped stabilize the tiny Detroit neighborhood you almost never hear about

The block that blight forgot

By Michael Jackman
May 13, 2015

Tags: Local News, Detroit, neighborhoods, Farnsworth, Cover Story