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Feb 7, 2020 · On Thursday, the city of Detroit filed several lawsuits against "Detroit’s most notorious speculators and slumlords,” who have purchased more than 1,000 dilapidated homes and amassed...
Oct 18, 2009 · The skyline looks likely, but the slum in front looks more like a composite of the edge of a Brazilian city with the modern Detroit skyline. Is this photo legitimate?
May 2, 2015 · As the legendary Detroit rap group prepares for the June release of their new album, Yes, we take a look back on the revolving-door history of Slum Village.
- Pete Tosiello
The 1950s in the U.S. are marked by massive urban renewal projects that sought to eradicate the extreme living conditions in American slums. Mayor Jeffries’ 1951 Detroit Plan slated Black Bottom as an area for slum clearance with plans to build I-375 through the district.
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Detroit is now 82 percent African-American, roughly double its presence in 1967. And blacks can now be found in almost every city and town in the larger region of Oakland, Wayne and Macomb counties. And yet, even as African Americans continue to follow whites to live and work in the suburbs, metro Detroit remains largely segregated, with whites in ...
Historically, 8 Mile Road, the northern border of Detroit, was a racial demarcation line; blacks typically did not live north of it. For the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s, moving across that line – and into the western and southern suburbs – defined the white flight that helped depopulate the city. Yet in recent decades tens of thousands of blacks moved nor...
Ironically, after decades of seeking equal access to home loans, blacks were given wider access to loans in the 2000s. But at a fearsome cost: The predatory lending that flooded into Detroit that decade – an estimated three-quarters of all loans from 2004 to 2006 carried higher interest rates -- saddled tens of thousands of residents with high-inte...
In the wake of the Kerner Commission findings, lawmakers made changes to alleviate housing discrimination, with mixed results. In the 1970s, after the Federal Housing Agency began backing loans for the poor, speculators combined with shady appraisers to inflate home prices. They helped thousands of poor families get loans to buy their first homes i...
Although Black Bottom and Paradise Valley objectively had higher levels of poverty and uncleanliness than surrounding areas, things were not unravelling and anarchic, as many claimed slums were, for they had their own concrete cultures and ways of life.
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Aug 15, 2014 · Many of Detroit’s black residents are themselves starting to move to the suburbs, in an echo of the exodus their white neighbors made decades before. On a map you can see them fanning out ...
