Anika Goss-Foster, Detroit Future City’s (DFC) executive director, and Katy Locker, Knight Foundation program director, sat down with American Black Journal host Stephen Henderson at Detroit Public Television to discuss […]
Bankole Thompson, from The Detroit News, focuses on Detroit’s job opportunities, and highlights minority-owned firms in the city, using the 139 Square Miles report. Detroit needs a plan to leave […]
Nancy Derringer, from Bridge Magazine, highlights eleven facts about the city of Detroit found in Detroit Future City’s 139 Square Miles report. Eleven surprising facts that define Detroit’s ‘139 Square […]
Nancy Kaffer, from the Detroit Free Press, examines Detroit’s population and job opportunities, using data from Detroit Future City’s 139 Square Miles report. Detroit’s economy is growing. But who’s getting […]
Keith Owens, from Michigan Chronicle, highlights how accessible and easily digestible Detroit Future City’s 139 Square Miles report is for all who are interested in understanding Detroit’s status, and he […]
Candice Williams, from The Detroit News, focuses on statistics about Detroit’s families with children, and population and job growth, using data from Detroit Future City’s 139 Square Miles report. Survey […]
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.
