Detroit has demolished roughly 27,000 abandoned houses and sold another 19,000 formerly vacant homes since Mayor Mike Duggan ...

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan's blight removal program cut abandoned Land Bank homes from 47,000 to under 1,000, boosting property values from $4.2B to $8.8B.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announces progress in reducing city blight, with fewer than 1,000 abandoned properties remaining.

Before the launch of the residential blight removal program in 2014, the Land Bank owned 47,000 abandoned houses across the ...

Few cities have experienced a sharper economic change of fortune than Detroit. It was one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation between 1900 and 1950. In the nearly 75 years since then, it has ...

St. off Michigan Avenue in Corktown, to the delight of a gathering of Detroit City FC club officials and fans who were there ...

A long-abandoned Detroit site is being cleared as demolition starts on a new soccer stadium project tied to a major ...

DETROIT – The city is taking steps to make residents of a neighborhood on Detroit’s west side feel safer. On Monday evening (April 14), viewers could see real-time efforts to secure an abandoned house ...

Southwest Detroit Hospital opened in 1973 following two years of construction. According to local history site ...

DETROIT – An abandoned apartment building on Detroit’s west side is drawing heavy concern from neighbors who say it has become a magnet for criminal activity. “A lot of folks that are in that building ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) It was one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation between 1900 and 1950. In the ...