Sharing a home with ten people came with challenges. But, for Tahirih Ziegler and her siblings, the issues were often more critical than sharing bathrooms or finding privacy. The eldest of eight, Ziegler remembers bouncing around rental properties in western Michigan as her parents faced affordability challenges. Though both parents were professionally employed, her dad’s […]
The importance of rebuilding homeownership in Detroit in order to revitalize its neighborhoods cannot be underestimated. Detroit is where the middle class movement began and took hold, and the distinctively American dream of homeownership helped form the foundation of this defining movement. Detroit had the greatest number of single-family homes per capita and boasted highest […]
It was one of the most frightening moments of Lester Parnell’s life. After pulling into his driveway with his family and getting ready to enter the house one evening he noticed his 1-year-old toddling between a mother raccoon and her baby. An abandoned house on Artesian Street next door to his home had long been […]
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Thousands of residents and hundreds of organizations work every day to make Detroit’s neighborhoods strong and vibrant. They often do it in a vacuum. There hasn’t been a way to help them easily find and collaborate with other block clubs, neighborhood associations, community development organizations, and neighborhood improvement organizations throughout the city. Thanks to d[COM]munity, […]
Even 1,100 miles from Miami, Maricruz Moya felt right at home. Moya remembers arriving in Southwest Detroit with her parents at 9-years-old, almost instantly appreciating the Latino presence and Hispanic influence in one of the city’s most festive, lively districts. “Here, I was able to find the connection,” she recalls. “The cultural connection and the […]
Investments in Detroit’s neighborhoods are on the rise and will soon swell with major new investments or resources from critical business institutions like the Detroit Regional Chamber (DRC). The DRC has frequently weighed in on issues that impact Detroit’s neighborhoods, particularly in regard to education and transportation, but has increased efforts to make an impact […]
Wearing construction gloves, old jeans and a Motor City Blight Busters t-shirt, Justin Moore heads out with a caravan of teen workers to beautify his Old Redford neighborhood. His efforts net at least a couple garbage bags of trash a day, a weight loss of 60 pounds and, for the first time in three years […]
Rebecca “Bucky” Willis has a vision for Lindale Gardens, the neighborhood where she was born and her parents operated a mission out of their home, hosting Bible studies and feeding breakfast to children. For Willis, it’s in her blood to love her neighbors – and her neighborhood. Together, they are building a community that shows […]
Around Brightmoor, they called him “J Bone.” Jason Williams, the friendly, playful youngest son of long-time Detroit neighborhood activist Ora Williams, was known for his love of this community, the only one he ever called home. Since his shocking, accidental death last year at age 34, J Bone’s mother and several peers he considered family […]
Passing the baton signifies many things – working as a team, establishing bonds, carrying lessons forward. To Dotti Sharp, it also symbolizes leadership transitions, turning neighbors into activists for their neighborhoods. Through her work with Michigan Community Resources (MCR), Sharp recently helped recognize 24 Detroiters at the “Power of One Dedicated Woman” breakfast. The event […]