Description goes hereSince 2022, more than 11,000 complaints related to rental housing have been filed with Detroit's Buildings, Safety Engineering, and Environmental Department, according to documents obtained by The Detroit News through a Freedom of Information Act request.

The last train left the station in January 1988, and the massive Corktown building was closed and decaying for decades before Ford Motor Co. bought it in 2018 and is in the midst of transforming it into a hub for the "future of global mobility.

The zoo site has sat idle for 20 years and has become famed on social media as a site of ruin porn, closed off to the public and considered dangerous to trek through. Its remarkable history is also fading as it enters a new chapter. This piece won best digital storytelling for Society of Professional Journalists in 2023.

Detroit's Rehabbed and Ready relies on philanthropic support to turn vacant, city-owned houses into move-in-ready properties and sell them for market value in a bid to bridge the financial gap.

President Donald Trump commuted the former Detroit mayor’s sentence and freed him from a lockup at a prison in Oakdale, La. Kilpatrick still had 16 years remaining on his sentence after receiving credit for good behavior. I found him once he was free.

"We do lack resources, notoriety or even people knowing our story," said Daniel Washington, 27, a resident in Northwest Goldberg, one Detroit's most segregated communities, adding it's "something that is rooted in history."

Four months after more than 80% of voters approved creating a reparations commission, Detroiters now have a two-week window to weigh in on who should help determine how to address what many say is a legacy of governmental systemic racism in the nation's largest majority-Black city.

Breaking coverage of historic storms that hit Southeast Michigan on June 25-26, 2021.

There's no consistency, Gooding said, often an up to 45-minute wait for drivers to arrive and a two-hour turnaround time to request a ride home. She's also been dropped off in the wrong place and left behind by drivers.

Planning is underway to "rethink and transform downtown into more of a live, work, play area that's more focused on green spaces" than office spaces, Freeman said.

As scandals plague the new generation of elected leaders in Detroit, Sheffield said she doesn't want merely to provide oversight of Duggan or constantly be reacting to his initiatives. Her approach reflects the history of her storied family, which has helped lead efforts in Detroit area labor and civil rights.

Taxes are going up 3% as residential property values in the city climbed an average of 31% last year, marking the fifth straight year of growth, Mayor Mike Duggan announced in January 2022.

The raids represent the broadest federal investigation into City Hall corruption in the eight years since former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was convicted of racketeering conspiracy and sentenced to 28 years in federal prison. President Donald Trump commuted the sentence in January. 2021.

A judge awarded a rundown property in Islandview to HGTV star Nicole Curtis, closing out a years-long dispute over the house she's been fighting to save..

More than 60,000 households have delinquent water debt that has totaled more than $85 million during the pandemic — but not everyone will have to repay it.

It's the first time since December 2000 that Detroit’s unemployment rate fell below 7%, Mayor Mike Duggan said. But two experts warned the unemployment drop is due more to a reduction in the labor force than an increase in jobs.

Three years after the city of Detroit sold 34 properties to a billionaire family's development firm as part of a land-swap deal for a new Jeep assembly plant, the result has been the near leveling of several blocks of an eastside neighborhood.