How Detroit Built a Better Preservation Playbook
Detroit is midstride in its great comeback, emerging like a phoenix in full burn. In a city which has suffered so much loss, not only are community leaders and private investors acting to salvage [...]
How broken municipal finance breaks local economic development
We've talked a lot about how our local communities are squeezed by Michigan's failed municipal finance system: that our primary revenue stream, property taxes, is designed to fall behind; that the state has plundered [...]
Report Finds that Crowdfunding Works in Helping Revitalize Michigan Communities
The cover for the new crowdfunding report. The joke could start out like, "Some Boy Scouts, an artist, a curler, beer connoisseurs, and a soccer enthusiast walk into a bar with a [...]
Crowdfunding in Michigan Goes Under National Spotlight This Week in Detroit
ComCap19 is happening this week in Detroit! There's a national conference happening in Detroit this week that will shine a brightlight on Michigan's highly successful crowding movement. About 300 investors, community leaders, [...]
League Launches #WeLoveWhereYouLive Social Media Campaign
The League's Matt Bach at Brush Park - his new favorite park in his favorite city of Flint and near the newly restored and reopened Capital Theatre. #WeLoveWhereYouLive "We Love Where You [...]
New Jackson ordinance protects displaced rental tenants
Many of our communities have ordinances that require periodic inspection and certification of rental residential properties. Because people who live in rented homes often have little control over the physical condition of the structure [...]
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