Where once blight stood, Detroit is rising. ✨🚧 With the demolition of these commercial properties, we’ve cleared the way for safer streets and stronger neighborhoods. Vacant lots are becoming safe spaces, and old abandoned buildings are now foundations for lasting change. Every block tells a story of progress and the best is still to come. Learn more: detroitmi.gov/engagedetroit #DetroitinAction #NeighborhoodProgress #buildingdetroittogether | City of Detroit Government
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Where once blight stood, Detroit is rising. ✨🚧 With the demolition of these commercial properties, we’ve cleared the way for safer streets and stronger neighborhoods. Vacant lots are becoming safe spaces, and old abandoned buildings are now foundations for lasting change. Every block tells a story of progress and the best is still to come. Learn more: detroitmi.gov/engagedetroit #DetroitinAction #NeighborhoodProgress #buildingdetroittogether | City of Detroit Government
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Detroit's 122,000 Empty Lots Up For Grabs As Parks, Farms Or New Homes
Detroit's 122,000 Empty Lots Up For Grabs As Parks, Farms Or New Homes
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How Detroit went from a booming metropolis to a shrinking city
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How Detroit went from a booming metropolis to a shrinking city
Dec 17, 2018
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The Detroit Land Bank Authority has sold over 30,000 vacant side lots to residents in the city, marking a major milestone! Find out how you can purchase a side lot at www.buildingdetroit.org/sidelots #OpportunityRising #SideLots #DetroitLandBank | City of Detroit Government
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The Detroit Land Bank Authority has sold over 30,000 vacant side lots to residents in the city, marking a major milestone! Find out how you can purchase a side lot at www.buildingdetroit.org/sidelots #OpportunityRising #SideLots #DetroitLandBank | City of Detroit Government
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Detroit Plans To Transform Over 100,000 Vacant Lots Into Parks and Green Spaces
Detroit Plans To Transform Over 100,000 Vacant Lots Into Parks and Green Spaces
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The impact of blighted home removals in Detroit
The impact of blighted home removals in Detroit
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Detroit’s Urban Beekeepers are Transforming the City’s Vacant Lots | Short Film Showcase
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Detroit’s Urban Beekeepers are Transforming the City’s Vacant Lots | Short Film Showcase
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Putting publicly owned vacant lots back into the hands of Detroiters for private ownership, Detroit Land Bank Authority's Side Lot program is an ongoing vacant land sales program since 2014. Sold for just $100 each exclusively to Detroit homeowners, Side Lots are a way to restore land ownership, eliminate blight, and make neighborhoods safer and more attractive. Owning the lot or lots next door gives neighbors the power to control the land in their community, expand their yards, create gathering
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How an abandoned Detroit neighborhood found higher purpose
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From vacant lots to vibrant green space, how Detroit is remaking itself
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Detroit Celebrates 30,000 Vacant Lots Sold to Residents for Gardens, Parks and More
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Nonprofits work to transform vacant Detroit land by planting giant sequoias, world’s biggest trees
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Nonprofits work to transform vacant Detroit land by planting giant sequoias, world’s biggest trees
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Detroit property authority hits major milestone in boosting city appeal
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FBI digs at Detroit vacant lot after report of possible human remains
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Let's celebrate with the Detroit Land Bank at their Lot Party!
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East side Detroit neighborhood transformed by innovative shipping container homes
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🌏 earthrise - Detroit's Urban Farming Revolution
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Tearing Down Detroit: Demolishing Houses for the Economy
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From Vacant Land to Solar Power. Energizing Detroit: Clean Energy More. | City of Detroit Government
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Detroit Land Bank pushes owners of vacant, blighted houses to renovate or risk losing properties in court
Nov 15, 2023
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Detroit Future City (DFC), a think tank, wants to use land conservancies to create more green space in Detroit. In Detroit, six percent of the city’s land is park space, according to the Trust for Public Land. That lags behind many large U.S. cities. For example, in San Francisco and Washington D.C., 21 percent of the land is park space. In Cincinnati, 17 percent. DFC notes there are more than 100,000 vacant lots in Detroit. The city’s Land Bank Authority owns about 59,000 of them. The land bank
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Tiny homes popping up on Detroit's vacant lots
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This isn’t just about land, it’s about people building pride, beauty, and community together. Through the Detroit Land Bank’s Side Lot Program and partnership with the Wayne County Treasurer’s Office, residents are turning blight to beauty on Burgess Street. By investing in vacant lots and reimagining abandoned spaces, neighbors are building something greater than property lines, they’re building community. Visit: detroitmi.gov/engagedetroit | City of Detroit Government
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How Detroit Went From A Booming Metropolis To A Shrinking City | NBC Nightly News
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Detroit solar neighborhoods project breaks ground on east side vacant lots
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Equitable access to vacant lots, funding, and maintenance resources are just a few of the barriers that Detroiters are facing in their quest to transform land into a communal space. Detroit Future City has partnered with Design Core Detroit, @ArbDetroit, @Field.Temple, and the East Ferry Warren Association to showcase the resilient oasis of neighborhoods within the Poletown East community. After the tour, we will host a thought-provoking panel discussion with representatives from @BaileyParkNDC,
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Could Sweat Equity Housing Solve Detroit’s Vacant Lot Problem?
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More than 100 Detroiters received deeds this summer through the Detroit Land Bank Authority’s Buy Back Program. The program gives residents occupying a DLBA-owned house an opportunity to purchase the home for $1,000 after completing a year of homebuyer counseling - and having saved up enough funds to pay their first summer tax bill. Since 2016, more than 900 people have completed the program and received deeds. "Now instead of a vacant house in the city, we have homeownership, and we need to bui
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'The Depot on Detroit' affordable housing proposal begins collecting community input
Jul 10, 2023
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