Detroit It’s a good thing that we wanted to talk about housing in Detroit, because no matter the organization or the individual, invariably in Detroit the conversation comes back to housing. Despite all the talk, solutions are illusive, but efforts and ideas are bountiful. Although, maybe it depends on who you are. One person told …
Category: Financial Justice
Detroit Paradox: People Who Need Houses and Houses that Need People
Detroit Rarely is there a day in organizing when each meeting seems to be with one person after another who is smart as a whip, committed all in, and shoulder to the wheel, as we found in Detroit, but rarely is there also a day in which each story sometimes seemed a version of Sisyphus …
No Pot of Gold at the End of Rainbow Realty in Indianapolis
Detroit Indianapolis is a surprising city. Not having been there for some years, the first surprise to me was the modern airport built over the last decade that first left me wondering what I might have been overlooking in the heartland. The second surprise was realizing how big the city had become, now over 850,000 …