Detroit The panel organized by the Detroit School at the University of Michigan – Dearborn had an ominous title: “Post Crisis Housing Markets and Housing Insecurity.” In Detroit, not unlike so many other cities around the world now, when you couple “Post Crisis” and “Housing” in the same phrase you are definitely either very hopeful …
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Some Good News for Low-Income Families Hoping for Homes in Cincy & Detroit
New Orleans For lower income and working families in these days of escalating rents and no money flowing in the credit deserts, the old saying that if it “weren’t for bad news, there wouldn’t be any news at all” feels too much like an everyday story. In Detroit and Cincinnati recently, there was some good …
Cold Weather and Warm Hearts in Michigan
Detroit I saw the picture of the woman who won the Boston Marathon in what was described as epically horrible conditions. Normally in the embrace of a New Orleans spring I would simply shake my head and say, “why?” Not this year, because I felt like I had lived my own version as I broke …
And, if You Make it Through the Mortgage Maze, then There’s Insurance
Indianapolis Saving money on the ticket I was flying out of Indianapolis and that meant joining the truck drivers and precious few others on the interstates and US highways in the middle of the night linking Detroit and Indianapolis, so I could beat the rain and make the plane. In one of our last meetings we …
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 …