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All-hands effort needed to make Detroit a middle-class city again, report says

September 25, 2024

In this article, Nick Manes from Crain’s Detroit Business shares how to the new DFC report calls for a broad coalition of stakeholders — government, business, schools and residents — to work toward making Detroit a middle-class city again. The article quotes an interview with DFC CEO, Anika Goss, with the following:

“It’s time to really get serious about this,” Goss told Crain’s. “Are we going to continue to be a city that perpetuates poverty in our neighborhoods, or are we a city where people can enter the middle class from wherever you are, whether you’re moving here or you’re currently living here?”

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