CoLab Radio covers the 2010 DFC Strategic Framework planning process, which engaged and incorporated over 100,000 opinions of Detroiters, as a model for "democratic design".
The September Restoring Neighborhoods Taskforce Webinar features Anika Goss-Foster, DFC executive director, discussing the Detroit Neighborhood Housing Compact – a partnership formed between DFC and JPMorgan Chase & Co. focused on strengthening the single-family housing market in Detroit neighborhoods.
Rising rents and falling wages are problematic for low-income Detroiters. This article explores this issue with Anika Goss-Foster, DFC executive director.
A decade ago, nearly 100,000 houses in Detroit went into foreclosure. Providing quality housing for all income levels is essential for the future of Detroit. This article highlights Detroit Future City and Anika Goss-Foster’s work and vision around rebalancing Detroit’s housing market.
Mose Primus, a DFC Field Guide Mini-Grantee, has transformed land in Yorkshire Woods into a beautiful community space including a rain garden, entitled "Yorkshire in Bloom"!
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.
