In Detroit, it takes a block to save a neighborhood
It’s the kind of place where you brag about hosting a block party in which no one was assaulted.
12 beautiful gems for auction in historic neighborhoods
Once selling for six figures, the houses are on the auction block for as low as a few thousand dollars.
Mayor Bing’s plan to save Detroit sputters on
All together, the mayor’s three-year-old Detroit Works Project, which was designed to attract thousands of residents into revitalized neighborhoods over the next decade, has summoned only about a dozen new residents to areas that are far from revitalized.