Chastity Pratt Dawsey of Bridge Magazine speaks with Detroit Future City executive director, Anika Goss, about the Growing Detroit's African-American Middle Class report.
The Detroit Free Press's Nancy Kaffer writes about our Growing Detroit's African-American Middle Class report, where she says it's the "first economic blueprint [she's] encountered in 15 years of covering the city that puts black middle-class families at the center of Detroit's redevelopment priorities."
Detroit Future City (DFC) is looking for a Director of Data & Research. They will work closely with DFC leadership and a two-member staff to develop and deploy DFC’s data and research department, which will focus on economic equity, cultivating community engagement efforts, and expanding DFC’s existing publications work.
Model D covers the Working with Lots 2019 Grant Program, which "seeks to transform vacant lots throughout the city into attractive and useful public spaces that positively impact neighborhoods through community-minded activities and sustainability efforts" by focusing on "eight very specific lot designs."
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.
