Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan's blight removal program cut abandoned Land Bank homes from 47,000 to under 1,000, boosting property ...

After more than a decade leading the Motor City through bankruptcy, blight removal, major development and unprecedented population and business growth, Mayor Mike Duggan is preparing to leave the ...

DETROIT (AP) — The results of a survey of abandoned structures and vacant lots across Detroit will be presented in mid- to late May, the co-chair of the city’s Blight Removal Task Force said Wednesday ...

Detroit Blight Busters, with the aid of a $1 million grant from the State of Michigan, has launched a large-scale clean-up initiative in Northwest Detroit's Old Redford area. This effort, involving ...

Since its start in 1988, Detroit Blight Busters has been known for demolishing or renovating abandoned houses, cleaning up neighborhoods and helping patrol the city's streets against arson on what was ...

DETROIT – Neighbors in the Old Redford neighborhood are fed up with yet another illegal dumping incident left a vacant lot at the corner of Thatcher and Burgess strewn with trash, broken glass and ...

America’s biggest bank will give $100 million — $20 million a year for five years — to revitalize Detroit. JPMorgan Chase’s Executive Vice President Peter Scher told Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson that ...

The nonprofit recently opened a 48-unit apartment complex and is planning a larger 304-unit project. These developments rely on federal Low Income Housing Tax Credits to offer affordable rents.