Detroit Future City’s Buying In report is available in hardcopies! You may request a copy via the form below. Buying In details comprehensive data which examines trends, challenges and solutions for increasing homeownership through mortgage lending. The report analyzes three focus areas – the lending process, homebuyer pipeline, and neighborhood and housing quality.

The Detroit Housing Resource Library has been developed to be a digitized collection of studies, instructional materials, and resources placed into a database. This is developing project that aims to function as a repository for Compact members, housing advocates and practitioners in Detroit. Resource libraries are useful in streamlining related topics within a field for either private or public use. This database is formatted via Airtable and it compiles resources under various categories within the housing topic including descriptions of each item, its associations, links and attachments, and time of updates and modifications.

The Eviction Machine — New research tool developed examining systematic displacement

Through a collaborative led by Urban Praxis Workshop with support from Detroit Eviction Defense, “The Eviction Machine” is an organizing, advocacy, and research tool developed to understand systematic displacement, inform strategies of direct engagement on behalf of tenants, and produce data informed critiques of the laws, policies, and actors associated with evictions. By retrieving records from the 36th District Court’s online Register of Actions (ROA) case inquiry system and through partnership with Data Driven Detroit, these tools translate case-level information into a quantitative datasets. This tool also includes a host of other resources for tenants and an array of tools that track and provide observations on eviction policies and key actors in Detroit.

Housing Report: Analysis of news coverage about housing and health equity from media markets across the country

To what extent does the media understand whether and how people think about housing? How are they following it and what kind of framing and narrative is being used among the various stakeholders within housing networks across the country. Berkley Media Studies Group, a grantee of the Kresge Foundation, recently published a study that looks at understanding how journalists currently frame housing, and how those choices shape long-term narratives providing insights into how advocates and housing organizations can be strategic about their communication strategies.

HUD announces updated code and standards set to be largest in over two decades.

The proposed updates were published in the Federal Register and they are intended to expand the supply of manufactured housing as a component of efforts to address the nation’s housing supply challenges. The proposed rule will bring the HUD Code in line with more recent manufactured housing industry standards and further improve the quality and safety of manufactured home construction. Public comment will be open until September 17th, 2022. View a summary of the updates below.

LIRA Tracking Indicator: Predictions show decreased owner investments in home improvements and maintenance over the coming year.

Annual growth in homeowner spending for improvements and repairs is expected to soften during the first half of 2023, according to the Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA) released by the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.

The LIRA measures short-term trends in national spending for improvements and maintenance to owner-occupied homes. The LIRA is calculated as a four-quarter moving rate of change in spending and it is benchmarked to historical estimates of homeowner spending for professionally-installed and do-it-yourself remodeling and repair projects based on data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Local Recommendations for Appraisal Bias: Takeaways from the Philadelphia Appraisal Bias Task Force

Last month, the Middle Neighborhoods Initiative hosted a webinar aim to inform Philadelphians and housing advocate about the recommendations in a new report by the Philadelphia Home Appraisal Bias Task Force. The report organizes recommendations for local, state and national intervention by a set of fourteen key problems to be solved in the appraisal process, in who conducts appraisals and in how they are trained. Panelists also offered tips on how to raise awareness of appraisal bias in your city, and how to organize leaders to develop your own customized set of recommendations to address the problem. Access the recording below!

Data Driven Detroit: Housing Information Portal

The Housing Information Portal serves as a centralized source of information about housing and neighborhood-related demographics in Detroit and beyond. Click on the “Learn More” button below to explore all types of housing data!