Artist reimburses city for emergency demo, wants to ship 3 more houses to Europe
The art project is aimed at raising money to demolish blighted Detroit houses, but Mayor Mike Duggan’s administration is not on board.
Firebombing in Detroit ends 24-hour streak without a house fire
It was a rare but exciting moment for one of the nation’s busiest fire stations: Detroit was just 15 minutes shy of having no house fires in 24 hours.
Detroit investigates just 20% of suspicious fires, underreports arson
Failures in the Fire Department are prompting calls for Fire Commissioner Don Austin to retire.
Cheap, vacant houses in Detroit attract foreign investors (Photos)
Many of the abandoned homes are gutted, burned and in dangerous, underserved neighborhoods.
Stuck in Detroit: One day, five fires and one man trying to flee “this hell”
On Sunday afternoon, Larry paced outside while flames spread through four neighboring, vacant houses on the east side.