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Tenants at Detroit’s Alden Towers fight eviction threats
Some feel they are being retaliated against for speaking up about poor conditions at the historic riverfront apartment complex
By Randiah Camille Green
Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Real Estate, Alden Towers, Detroit landlords, Friedman Communities, Mary Sheffield, Detroit People’s Platform
Detroit City Council takes action after study suggests lowest valued homes were overtaxed
Activists are worried about another wave of foreclosures based on inflated property taxes for some homes
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Government, Detroit, Mayor Duggan, Detroit City Council, Mary Sheffield, property taxes, Coalition for Property Tax Justice
Mary Sheffield teams up with Skilla Baby for gun buyback and expungement fair
‘Turn your gun in, expunge your record, and get a job — no questions asked,’ the City Council President said on social media
By Layla McMurtrie
Tags: Metro Detroit, Crime, Government, News, Things to Do, Skilla Baby, Gun Buy Back Detroit, The Icon Detroit, Judge Yancey, Mary Sheffield, job fair Detroit, felon friendly jobs Detroit, expungement fair Detroit, Slideshow
Businessman Joel Haashiim announces mayoral candidacy, vows to serve all of Detroit
‘Somebody has to stand up and do the right thing for the people of Detroit,’ the 73-year-old says
Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Joel Haashiim, politics, election, mayoral candidate, Detroit, Mayor Duggan, Mary Sheffield, corporate welfare
Mary Sheffield lays out vision for a more equitable Detroit, if she runs for mayor
The Detroit City Council president reveals why she’s exploring a mayoral bid
Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Politics & Government, Mary Sheffield, Detroit City Council, Detroit, mayor, Mayor Duggan, election, politics, progressive politics
Detroit finally begins offering benefits to overtaxed residents
Until this week, residents had not been compensated in any way for losing their homes or paying more than they owed in property taxes
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Property taxes, overassessed property values, Mayor Duggan, Detroit, Detroit City Council, Coalition for Property Tax Justice, Mary Sheffield
Detroit Council President Sheffield to advocate duty-to-intervene ordinance following Tyre Nichols death
Cariol’s Law obligate officers to stop police brutality
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Cariol's Law, Detroit City Council, Detroit police, Detroit, Mary Sheffield, police brutality
Paratransit debate fractures relationship between Detroit’s mayor and council
Duggan called the city council ‘dysfunctional’ after it rejected a contract for transportation services for people with disabilities
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Politics & Elections, Paratransit, DDOT, Detroit, Mayor Duggan, Detroit City Council, Mary Sheffield, Trandev
Activists urge AG Nessel to weigh in on legal remedies for overtaxed Detroiters
The illegal property tax assessments resulted in an as many as 100,000 Detroiters, most of them Black, losing their homes to foreclosure between 2010 and 2016
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Mary Sheffield, Detroit City Council, Detroit, tax foreclosures, homeowners, taxes, Mayor Duggan, Rashida Tlaib, Bernadette Atuahene
Community organizers challenged Bedrock’s latest Hudson’s site tax break in Detroit — and nearly won
Making Goliath stumble
By Eli Day
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, Bedrock, Dan Gilbert, Hudson's site, Detroit People's Platform, Mary Sheffield, Cover Story
Detroit council president lays out conditions for Dan Gilbert’s proposed $60M tax break
Taxpayers are questioning why the cash-strapped city should provide tax incentives for one of the wealthiest people on the planet
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Dan Gilbert, Bedrock, Mary Sheffield, Mayor Duggan, Detroit, Detroit City Council, tax incentives
City of Detroit to provide free legal representation for residents facing eviction
The right-to-counsel ordinance passed 9-0, and Mayor Mike Duggan’s administration endorsed it
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Right-to-Counsel, Detroit, Mary Sheffield, Tonya Myers Phillips, Right to Counsel Coalition, landlords, evictions, Detroit City Council, attorneys
Detroit illegally overtaxed homeowners $600M. They’re still waiting to be compensated.
An estimated 100,000 Detoiters lost their home to foreclosures because of over-assessments
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Detroit, property taxes, Assessments, Coalition for Property Tax Justice, Mayor Duggan, Detroit City Council, Mary Sheffield, taxes
Tensions flare over Detroit ordinance to provide lower-income tenants with free legal representation
The ordinance is intended to protect tenants from lawless slumlords
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Detroit City Council, apartments, rent, right to counsel, Detroit, landlords, Mary Sheffield, Charles Raimi, Tonya Myers Phillips, Detroit Right to Counsel Coalition
Mary Sheffield appointed president of Detroit City Council
Tags: Mary Sheffield, James tate, Detroit, Detroit City Council, politics
Detroit City Council approves reparations measure, but challenges lie ahead
Tags: ballot initiative, reparations, racism, Detroit, Detroit City Council, Mary Sheffield
Detroit City Council debates ballot initiative for reparations for Black residents
Tags: Detroit, Detroit City Council, racism, slavery, reparations, Mary Sheffield
Detroit rapper Tee Grizzley releases new documentary 'Off Parole'
By Devin Culham
Tags: City Slang, Tee Grizzley, Helluva, Mary Sheffield, Detroit rap, Off Parole
Detroit's youngest councilmember sees her star rise
By Violet Ikonomova
Tags: News Hits, Detroit, City Council, Mary Sheffield, affordable housing, public subsidies, Dan Gilbert, community benefits
Can a mixed-income housing ordinance really help solve Detroit's affordability problem?
Bridging the housing gap
Tags: Local News, Mayor Duggan, Detroit, Mary Sheffield, housing, equity, affordability, Detroit People's Platform, Community Development Advocates of Detroit
Now that it’s lit up, people seem to like Detroit’s new I-94 sign
Pot-friendly Michigan music venue scales back programming
By Lee DeVito
What’s happening in Detroit on 4/20?