The future for Detroiters and the city’s employers just got brighter. We all know Detroit’s long-term growth depends on creating jobs and preparing residents to do them. A $1 million investment by Quicken Loans and Bedrock in the Breithaupt Career and Technical Center will help do that. Breithaupt offers many technology-based, hand-on education options in […]
Spring cleaning in Detroit began this week as crews from the Department of Public Works (DPW) hit the streets for the annual residential street sweeping program. They started on the northeast side and will sweep 2,000 miles of side streets three times this year. Each sweep takes about 10 weeks to complete. This 10-week citywide […]
The City of Detroit has established a $250 million multifamily affordable housing fund to preserve 10,000 affordable housing units and build 2,000 more. Called the Affordable Housing Leverage Fund, it will be comprised of $50 million in grant funds, $150 million of low-interest borrowing, and $50 million in public funds from expected federal and city […]
Public champion Bill Johnson recently penned an article on his blog about how Detroit’s rental registration ordinance will exacerbate blight in Detroit neighborhoods. Financially struggling landlords will be unable to comply with the new regulations, he argues, and this untenable burden will displace countless Detroit renters. Johnson is hardly averse to taking strong positions, having […]
Detroit’s campaign to bring the nearly 40,000 rental properties into compliance with the city housing code by 2020 defies logic. These codes were intended to prevent neighborhood deterioration. This blitz, however, will accelerate abandonment and decimate both low-income and middle-class communities. Rental property owners will have six months to register their units, bring them up […]
Flex-N-Gate Detroit is ready to hire for more than 400 jobs, ranging from hourly workers to management positions. The company will partner with Detroit at Work to train Detroiters for the new positions and has committed to hiring Detroiters first. When it reaches capacity over the next three year it will provide up to 700 new […]
It’s no secret Detroit’s neighborhoods need more businesses if they are going to reach their full potential and contribute fully to the city’s ongoing revitalization. With that in mind, the City of Detroit will create seven new deputy district managers for business, one in each City Council District. Their goal will be to build and […]
Partner programs like Project Green Light, Ceasefire Detroit and the Detroit Police Department’s Real Time Crime Center helped take a big bite out of crime in Detroit in 2017, and officials are putting more strategies in place to ensure the trend continues. Since 2016, nearly every category of major crime in Detroit has seen significant […]
The devil has gone down in Detroit. For the third straight year the city had a record low Angels’ Night fires during the last three days of October. This year there were 54 fires, the second lowest number of fires in Angels’ Night history. The news is go good Mayor Mike Duggan, Police Chief James […]
Although the school day may end at 3 p.m., the need for school-based support extends far beyond the school bell. Understanding the importance of quality after school programs, the Detroit City Council, the Detroit Recreation Department and the Detroit Public Schools Community District have collaborated to bring a new alternative to parents. Programming includes chess & […]