Detroit’s mortgages return to pre-recession levels, still face obstacles

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2019/02/14/detroit-mortgages-2018/2795713002/ Detroit — Nearly 1,300 home buyers took out mortgagesin the city in 2018, a number not seen here since before the Great Recession.  The milestone signals a strengthening housing market in a city that once boasted one of the largest homeownership rates among African-Americans. But by 2012, the number of new mortgages had dwindled to just […]

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Lawyers: Wayne County should halt tax auction

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 […]

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“After the bubble burst” | Reveal | A podcast that features a Home Savers Campaign Organizing Committee member!

The Home Savers Campaign is delighted to hear the investigative report that Reveal has done on land contract sales in Detroit with our Organizing Committee member Stevenna Dobson and the podcast’s deeper look into Trump’s friend and advisor Tom Barrack and his investment into the foreclosure crisis. “Michigan Radio’s Sarah Hulett brings listeners to ground […]

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