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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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Streetcar travels through some of richest parts of Detroit (interactive map)
Use this map to examine building permits and income along the route of the QLINE
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Detroit cites progress, but water shutoffs actually rose last year
Residential shutoffs spiked 18 percent in 2016 – countering city officials’ expectations. A staggering 83,000 homes have lost water service at some point since the city launched a crackdown on delinquent accounts in 2014.
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Interactive Map: Detroit water shutoffs by neighborhood
Go block by block to scan the more than 27,000 homes that had water cut off in 2016.
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Are Detroit water shutoffs and illnesses related?
“A significant difference in diagnoses” of skin or gastrointestinal infection was found in residents who lived on blocks with water shutoffs. But researchers acknowledge there’s not yet enough data to prove a link.
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Keeping crime victims from becoming repeat customers
A promising Detroit hospital program is steering ER patients ‒ including those engaged in crime themselves ‒ on a safer path. With video.
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Eight ways Detroit’s new schools chief can succeed
Nikolai Vitti, the incoming superintendent from Florida, faces some age-old Detroit problems: overcrowded classrooms, historically low student achievement, and the burden of replacing a popular predecessor. Here’s what insiders suggest he should tackle first.
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Is gentrification helping or dividing Detroit?
Two writers discuss gentrification. One sees inequality. The other, glimmers of hope.
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Welcome to the New Detroit, white people. So long, poor folks.
New book argues City Hall is picking winners and losers. And longtime residents are out of luck.
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Bring on the wealthy to ease inequality in Detroit
Scholar argues that neighborhoods thrive when rich and poor live together.