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

...critical for people who do not own cars, and is key to equitable transportation policy.  A MoGo bike share station in downtown Detroit.        

Council Briefs

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

Ready, FIRE, Aim! – Big State Investments in Teacher Pipeline Despite a Dearth of Data

...the state’s largest school district. In recent years, many of the 49,000 students attending Detroit Public Schools Community District returned from their summer breaks to classrooms without

Council Briefs

August 26, 2022

A Reality Check on Michigan’s Autonomous Vehicle Future

...Automated Vehicle Corridor (CAV-C) effort. MDOT has selected an approximately 25-mile segment of Interstate 94 in southeast Michigan (between Detroit and Ann Arbor) for the initial deployment

Council Briefs

November 10, 2022
Tags Autonomous Vehicles, CAV, Cavnue, infrastructure, Michigan

New Report Addresses Biggest Obstacles to Effectively Tackling Blight

...from declining tax bases and are often forced to make the choice between blight remediation and funding services for residents. Detroit has sold bonds to help fund

Press Release

January 31, 2023

Affordable Housing Policies Must Address Affordability for the Lowest-Income Households

...as affordable. The addition of housing stock is essential to keep up with demand for housing, especially in places like Detroit where uninhabitable units are the primary

Council Briefs

February 2, 2023
Tags Affordable Housing, Attainable Housing Facilities Act, cost burden, housing, Housing Choice Voucher, Low Income Housing Tax Credit, Rent burden, Rent Subsidy, Rental Housing, tenants

The Michigan Tolling Study Relies on Questionable Assumptions

...Section 129 authority. (Other tolled bridges, such as the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit, the Liberty Bridge in Bay City, and the Grosse Isle Bridge are private and

Council Briefs

February 14, 2023
Tags infrastructure, Michigan, road funding, Road Usage Charge, tolling, transportation

Taking a Closer Look at Blight Foreclosure in New Orleans

...enforce blight remediation on the property being developed for a new Perfecting Church in Detroit illustrates the shallow teeth in the law. Despite the issuance of fines

Council Briefs

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

Undergrounding Electrical Lines is an Option to Prevent Power Outages, but State Policy is Needed to Better Enable the Practice

...A DTE pilot in Detroit concluded that undergrounding an existing back-of-lot overhead line would cost three times as much as updating and hardening the line. Other cost

Council Briefs

March 29, 2023
Tags Consumers, DTE, electric utilities, infrastructure, MPSC, power outages
Sycamore trees have been pruned-back hard to reduce potential storm damage to power lines on a tree-lined neighborhood street.

State Revenue Estimates are Way Down, but Budgets Won’t Need Fixing

...grow the FY2025 budget by between $440 million to $690 million (or between 3.3 and 5.2 percent).  For perspective, last week’s consensus economic forecast suggests Detroit Consumer

Council Briefs

May 24, 2023
Tags revenue estimating conference, state budget, state revenue
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