Stephen Henderson of WDET talks with Detroit Future City executive director, Anika Goss, about the current realities of living, raising families and opening businesses in the city of Detroit.
Detroit resident Wendy Edwards shares her life story and how she and the rest of the Mohican Regent Resident Association are using their 2019 Working with Lots grant. Detroit Future City's Community Partnerships Manager, Shari Williams, also shares the benefits of transforming vacant lots in Detroit.
In an interview with Crain's Detroit Business, Detroit Future City's "Growing Detroit's African-American Middle-Class" report is mentioned in a Crain's Detroit Business interview with author and filmmaker Bridgett Davis.
During a WDET interview, Rachel Smith-Alternative references Detroit Future City's Working with Lots program as part of the Alternative Foundation's timeline for redeveloping the McDougall-Hunt neighborhood.
Paula Tutman of WDIV (Local 4) takes a look at Southwest Detroit Business Association's updated rain garden and talks to Detroit Future City's Community Engagement Coordinator, Tomicka Robinson.
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.
