Urban Affairs

Cheap homes are attracting new residents. But dumping, crime and a feeling of disconnection from City Hall pervade this far-west neighborhood.

City Hall has spent four years demolishing hundreds of homes in this northeast neighborhood. Many more remain.

Detroit is planning big changes to a little neighborhood near Belle Isle. Some wonder who will benefit.

In one of city’s most self-reliant neighborhoods, City Hall plans improvements as old brick homes get new owners.

Maurice Cox’s plan for the city: Make its biggest weakness a strength.

A law was supposed to stop land speculators from buying homes at tax auctions. It hasn’t worked out that way.

He has a name, but little money. So Young relies on his speeches in his uphill climb to unseat incumbent Mayor Mike Duggan.

A Bridge analysis shows that police responses to emergencies are roughly the same in all neighborhoods, but vary wildly for lesser crimes.

Raised in America, a young Detroit woman is a stranger in a violent land in Mexico after she is deported.

Bridge Magazine scours State of City speeches to filter fact from promises of Detroit’s mayor.