- Jump Start program officially launches Tuesday, January 31
- Mayor announces 18 Community organizations selected to provide training, mentorship & more as part of Jump Start training program
- President Biden’s top advisor over $1.
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Mayor’s Jump Start initiative to re-engage long term unemployed residents draws White House praise
City crews working around the clock for the year’s first major snow event; residential plowing to begin at midnight
City of Detroit Department of Public Works (DPW) crews are moving through the City at a steady pace plowing and salting 673 miles of major thoroughfares as contractors plow 1,884 miles of neighborhood residential streets starting at midnight tonight.
Mayor Duggan, coalition launch campaign to help Detroiters claim millions in 2023 tax credits
Mayor Mike Duggan and a coalition of community partners announced this year’s push to encourage all Detroiters to access every dollar of federal tax credits by scheduling an appointment for no-cost expert tax preparation.
Detroit Housing Department, SDBA Launch Grants to Help Turn Vacant 2nd-Floor Spaces into Affordable Housing
In collaboration with the City of Detroit Housing & Revitalization Department (HRD), the
City begins demolition of second portion of Packard Plant; ramps up efforts to remove remaining sections
The City of Detroit has begun demolition of a second major portion of the Packard Plant, the city’s largest and most notorious remaining abandoned auto factory. Emergency demolition began on the first portion the plant at 6199 Concord in late September 2022.
Mayor Duggan, Develop Detroit open $18.2M project in city’s North End representing 71 units of affordable housing
Mayor Mike Duggan joined nonprofit developers Develop Detroit and Vanguard Community Development Corporation today to officially open the $18.2 million Marwood + Marston project in the city’s North End, adding and preserving 71 housing units, all of which are reserved as affordable housing, inclu
Mayor to show Detroiters how to get their share of $100M job training scholarships during Jan. 30 address
- City has $100M in job training scholarships available to Detroit residents
- Address will be held Monday, Jan 30 at 7p.m.
2 Detroit Housing for the Future Fund redevelopments to turn vacant buildings into 87 affordable housing units in Piety Hill
Local Initiatives Support Corporation’s Detroit office (LISC Detroit) and developer Hazelwood Partners LLC announced that renovation has begun on two historic buildings in Detroit’s Piety Hill neighborhood that will bring 87 units of new affordable housing to the city.
City of Detroit offices to close for Martin Luther King Holiday on January 16
Most City of Detroit offices will be closed on Monday, Jan. 16 in observance of the Martin Luther King holiday. Normal police, fire, water and sewerage, and bus services will be provided.
Mayor announces new DDA fund to create more deeply affordable housing downtown
Hundreds of new deeply affordable housing units could be built in the city’s rapidly developing downtown over the next several years if the board of the Downtown Detroit Development Authority (DDA), votes on Wednesday to approve final guidelines for a new financing tool for qualifying projects wi