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Tackling Detroit’s Over-Assessment Problem

...the new housing market and economic realities of the post-pandemic era, lessons of the past should inform viable policy solutions and accountable governmental action. Permission to reprint

Council Briefs

October 21, 2021
Tags $600 million, assessments, City of Detroit, Detroit, foreclosure crisis, housing, overassessment, overtaxed, property tax, property tax relief, property taxes, remediation, residents, solutions, state equalized value, tax foreclosures, the detroit news

Detroit Ballot Proposals: Entheogenic Plants, Reparations Task Force, and Expanded Initiative Powers

...for future statewide decriminalization efforts. Proposal R would require the Detroit City Council to establish a reparations task force to make recommendations for housing and economic development

Publication

October 14, 2021

Low vaccination rates in some Michigan communities are no surprise

...but also housing, transportation, unemployment, poverty income inequality, educational attainment, availability of health providers, and health insurance coverage) have much higher rates of vaccine uptake. These counties

Council Briefs

December 10, 2021
Tags Coronavirus, COVID-19, Health Disparities, Health Literacy, Michigan, Public Health, Vaccination, Vaccine, Vaccine Hesitancy

Policy Options to Advance Mental Health in Michigan

...housing, nutrition, and social exclusion and discrimination. Investing in prevention will not only protect the public’s health, but will also reduce the demand for costly treatments and

Council Briefs

November 18, 2021
Tags Behavioral Health, insurance, integrated health, Maternal Health, Mental Health, Michigan, Public Health, social determinants of health

Citizens Research Council Analyses Help Detroiters Decide Votes on Proposals E, R, and S

...efforts. Proposal R would require the Detroit City Council to establish a reparations task force to make recommendations for housing and economic development programs that address historical

Press Release

October 14, 2021

Providing Detroiters Property Tax Relief to Spur Neighborhood Revitalization

...with low taxable value per capita (chart below). The exodus of city residents, abandonment of homes, and aging housing stock caused a plunge in assessed property values

Council Briefs

July 14, 2022
Tags abolish property tax, City of Detroit, Commercial Facilities Tax, Detroit, detroit neighborhoods, detroiters, economic development, local-option sales tax, middle class, middle class families, Neighborhood Enterprise Zone Facilities Tax, neighborhood enterprise zones, neighborhood revitalization, neighborhoods, owner-occupied residential property, population decline, property tax, property tax policy, renaissance zones, residents, split rate, split rate property tax, targeted property tax relief, tax abatement, tax burden, tax deliquency, tax exemption, tax foreclosure, tax rates, tax relief, taxable value, taxable value per capita, taxation

MI Healthy Climate Plan Lacks Equitable and Accountable Strategies for Transportation Decarbonization

...and Renewable Energy recommends this strategy for funding other clean energy investments, and this type of financing has been used for real estate development, affordable housing, and

Council Briefs

August 17, 2022
Tags Climate Change, Environment, Environmental Justice, equity, transportation

Taking a Closer Look at Blight Foreclosure in New Orleans

...also made assembling and rehabbing blighted properties expensive and difficult for developers and the city.  Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding damaged 134,000 housing units,

Council Briefs

March 10, 2023
Tags blight, blight lien, blight remediation, code enforcement, code enforcement lien, equity, lien, local government, new orleans, property

Outline of the Michigan Tax System – 2023

...housing ($50 million each year), and placemaking projects ($50 million each year).  Altogether, the law is expected to reduce state General Fund revenues by around $1.4 billion

Publication

July 11, 2023

Streamlining Functions and Services of Kent County and Metropolitan Grand Rapids Cities

...a squad across multiple governments. Those potential issues would be addressed by housing the joint squad in the county sheriff’s department. The county has jurisdiction across all

Council Briefs

June 10, 2009
Tags functions of Kent County and Grand Rapids city, streamlining services and functions
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