DFC Executive Director, Anika Goss, joins the City of Detroit’s Civil Rights, Inclusion and Opportunity department on their latest town hall related to COVID-19 and race. Read the full article […]
DFC Executive Director, Anika Goss, joins the City of Detroit’s Civil Rights, Inclusion and Opportunity department on their latest town hall related to COVID-19 and race. Read the full article […]
National Geographic Magazine mentions our “Growing Detroit’s African American Middle Class” report in their article about Detroit’s fighting spirit for combating COVID-19. Read the full article here.
The Michigan Chronicle speaks with our executive director, Anika Goss, about the importance of growing the Black middle class in Detroit. Read the full article here.
Detroit Future City was one of the major development entities involved with the Detroit Impact Conference in late February, which focused on inspiring young leaders to get involved with the […]
Veronica Meadows of Fox 2 Detroit spoke with DFC’s Land Use & Sustainability Director Sarah Hayosh and past Working with Lots grantee Daniel Washington of NW Goldberg Cares about the […]
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.
