Quicken Loans, Bedrock invest $1 million in Breithaupt to help more Detroiters find skill-trades jobs

Quicken Loans, Bedrock invest $1 million in Breithaupt to help more Detroiters find skill-trades jobs

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 […]

City of Detroit creates $250 million fund to preserve affordable housing, add more

City of Detroit creates $250 million fund to preserve affordable housing, add more

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 […]

Searching for the Mythical Yeoman Landlord: Detroit’s Rental Registration Ordinance

Searching for the Mythical Yeoman Landlord: Detroit’s Rental Registration Ordinance

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 […]

Code Enforcement = Blight Removal?

Code Enforcement = Blight Removal?

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 […]

City of Detroit to hire seven deputy district managers to help bring more businesses to neighborhoods

City of Detroit to hire seven deputy district managers to help bring more businesses to neighborhoods

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 […]

Partnership programs helped take a big bite out of crime in Detroit in 2017; most major crimes down

Partnership programs helped take a big bite out of crime in Detroit in 2017; most major crimes down

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 […]

Angels’ Night to end replaced by 3-day community celebration

Angels’ Night to end replaced by 3-day community celebration

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 […]

Detroit’s after school programs expanded; 9 new centers open today

Detroit’s after school programs expanded; 9 new centers open today

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 & […]