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Urban Affairs
In-depth reporting on Michigan’s largest city and surrounding communities, including deep dives into the big changes afoot in Detroit, its schools, neighborhoods, institutions and city hall.
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As the forest moves back in, pollen is on the rise in Detroit
For the first time, researchers are pinpointing where pollen levels are the highest to help residents with allergies and asthma protect themselves.
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Can Mike Duggan demolish his way to a safer Detroit? Studies say maybe
Two studies suggest homicides and aggravated assaults in Detroit dropped more in areas with moderate demolitions. The research, while inconclusive, comes as the mayor prepares to ask voters for more money for the demo blitz.
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Detroit police chief defends new facial recognition policy; protests continue
Detroit Police Commission could vote in two weeks on controversial surveillance policy.
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Detroit battle over video surveillance reaches fever pitch as crime falls
An emotional battle over facial recognition software has come to Detroit, one of the nation’s most violent cities, amid questions over the technology’s racial bias.
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The University of Michigan invested big in Detroit. Now come the evictions.
U-M’s endowment’s investment in a firm that buys and renovates tax-foreclosed homes in Detroit is prompting evictions and big equity questions in a rapidly changing city.
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Michigan desperate for Pre-K educators. And pays them poverty wages.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s plans for free preschool for all 4-year-olds depends on attracting more qualified teachers. That may be difficult since many make less than workers at McDonald’s.
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Thanks for making Detroit cool, artists. Here’s your eviction.
As rising rents displace artists in Detroit, an ownership change and evictions at the onetime headquarters of the Grand River Creative Corridor sparks a debate about gentrification.
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Bridge-linked documentary on Detroit’s 1967 uprising hits Amazon Prime
’12th and Clairmount’ uses the words and home videos of black and white Detroiters to describe the combustible race relations that stoked the violence, leaving 43 people dead and entire neighborhoods in ruin.
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Whites get half of mortgages in Detroit, nation’s largest majority black city
Detroit’s mortgage market is back, but mortgages are disproportionately going to whites. Blacks are buying in suburbs instead. ‘It looks like they’ve given up’ on Detroit, one Realtor says.