Four Detroit projects tap economic power of high ed, med facilities Detroit Future City | September 21, 2022
In this article, Louis Aguilar at The Detroit News mentions a statistic, regarding the percentage of Detroit middle-class jobs that come from local hospitals, from DFC’s recent report, Middle Wage Jobs, in a discussion regarding the city’s economy. Click here to learn more.
New "zero-down" mortgage program targets Detroit Detroit Future City | September 12, 2022
Joe Gullien of Axios Detroit mentions how DFC has done extensive research on homeownership, and reveals the release of an upcoming catalog of local down payment assistance programs for people making $50,000 a year or less. Click here to read more.
Detroit renters, housing advocates want to form citywide tenants association Detroit Future City | August 15, 2022
In this article, Nushrat Rahman at Bridge Detroit touches on the difficulties of securing housing in Detroit, highlights the need to protect and serve renters who are faced with several issues from evictions to home repairs, and references Detroit Future City’s report: Understanding the Rental Landscape. Click here to learn more
One-third of Detroit's Rental Housing Owned by Landlords With at Least 5 Properties Detroit Future City | August 15, 2022
Detroit Future City’s (DFC) “Understanding the Rental Landscape: A Profile Analysis of Detroit Landlords to Inform Lead-Safe Housing Policy” report was referenced in Deadline Detroit to address the statistics surrounding rental properties in Detroit. Click here to read more.
Who owns rental housing in Detroit? New report offers glimpse Detroit Future City | August 13, 2022
In this article, Nushrat Rahman at Detroit Free Press discusses who owns rental units and the statistics of landlords with property in the city of Detroit. Rahman shares how the Detroit Future City report, Understanding the Rental Landscape, sheds light on Detroit’s rental and landlord landscape. Click here to learn more
Digging into the city's 42,000 landlords Detroit Future City | August 12, 2022
In this article, Joe Guillen at Axios talks about how Detroit Future City’s report, Understanding the Rental Landscape, reveals fascinating details about the Detroit’s unique rental landscape. Click here to learn more
The DFC Strategic Framework, a shared vision for Detroit’s future, is the result of a massive, citywide public-engagement effort. It recommends a series of ideas, strategies and approaches on how to best use the city’s abundance of land, create job growth and economic prosperity, ensure vibrant neighborhoods, build an infrastructure that serves citizens at a reasonable cost, and maintain the high level of community engagement integral to the long-term revitalization of Detroit.
The Field Guide to Working with Lots is a user-friendly tool to connect Detroit residents, businesses, and institutions to resources to learn, collaborate, and better practice land stewardship in Detroit. This step-by-step guide provides readers with instructions on how to transform vacant land in their neighborhoods into 38 landscape designs ranging from installation by beginning gardeners to professional contractors. View the interactive guide now.
Detroit Future City’s (DFC) report, “The State of Economic Equity in Detroit,” illustrates the deep disparities that persist in Detroit and provides recommendations that provide a path to an economically equitable Detroit in which all Detroiters are meeting their unique needs, prospering, and fully and fairly participating in all aspects of economic life within a thriving city and region.