WDIV's Flashpoint had a conversation with Detroit Future City executive director, Anika Goss, to discuss growing Detroit's African American middle class.
The "Growing Detroit's African American Middle Class" report is highlighted in the Detroit News's latest editorial article, which discusses the need for stable neighborhoods in Detroit.
DBusiness Magazine discusses the important information highlighted in the Detroit Future City "Growing Detroit's African American Middle Class" report.
Nancy Keefer of the Detroit Free Press expands on the income earnings between college-educated Detroiters versus their suburban counterparts--an issue discussed in the Detroit Future City "Growing Detroit's African American Middle Class" report.
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.
