Real estate is hot in Detroit. But its top owner, the city, isn’t selling.
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Detroit has been struggling to piece together its broken housing market, which has been partly frustrated by the unwillingness of banks to make small mortgages.CreditErin Kirkland for The New York Times; Photo illustration by The New York Times The 2008 financial crisis and 2013 city bankruptcy gutted Detroit’s housingmarket. Now, Detroit is experimenting with unorthodox […]
Lawyers for community groups and residents hoping to block the sale of hundreds of tax foreclosed homes this fall argued their case to the state’s Court of Appeals on Tuesday. Detroit homeowners, joined by the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, filed the lawsuit more than a […]