Rising costs and gentrification force locals out of Detroit’s downtown and Midtown Detroit Future City | July 19, 2023
In this Detroit Metro Times article, Steve Neavling discusses how as real estate prices soar, Detroiters struggle to maintain their homes and communities. Neavline also shares data from Detroit Future […]
10 years after bankruptcy, Detroit progress both promising and disappointing Detroit Future City | July 16, 2023
In this article, the Detroit Free Press marks the 10-year anniversary of Detroit’s historic July 18, 2013, municipal bankruptcy filing, the Free Press is examining what has changed, what hasn’t, […]
Black Homeowners Have Saved Detroit’s Failing Economic State, Here’s How Detroit Future City | July 14, 2023
In this Black Enterprise article, Sharelle Burt shares how the economic status of the city of Detroit is turning around thanks to Black homeowners, and included data from Detroit Fure City’s […]
3 Detroiters brought climate solutions to international audience at TED Detroit Future City | July 14, 2023
In this article, MLive discusses how nearly 800 leaders from the science, activism, innovation, business, finance, policy and philanthropic sectors listened to presentations at the Fillmore Detroit and engaged in […]
A Decade After Detroit’s Bankruptcy, Some Hangovers Remain Detroit Future City | July 13, 2023
In this Crain’s Detroit Business article, shared by the Detroit Regional Chamber, Arielle Kass discusses the City of Detroit’s path and ongoing beautification efforts. Those efforts and how it involves […]
Black residents are reclaiming the housing market in Detroit Detroit Future City | July 7, 2023
In this Bridge Detroit article, Olivia Lewis shares the release of Detroit Fure City reports surrounding the housing market: Black Homebuyer Demand and Home Sales in Detroit. The article also connects the reports […]
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.
