Detroit housing

City officials tout the development, dubbed the Mapleridge Duplex Project, as an idea that can be expanded on to help provide more affordable housing, and foster generational wealth for new Detroit homeowners.

The Uniform Partition of Heirs' Property Act passed the Michigan House in March. It would help protect against the forced sale of inherited family homes and farmland.

There are at least 5,525 residential heirs’ properties in Detroit, according to Detroit Future City. Title issues can put a family home and generational wealth at risk.

The program is called the Homeowners Property Exemption, or HOPE for short. It allows low-income Detroit households that own and live in their home to pay reduced property taxes, or in some cases no taxes at all.

The complex can house up to 48 families.

The office will provide case management services to residents in need of affordable housing.

The Detroit Housing Resource Helpline will connect people directly to the seven agencies that make up the Detroit Housing Network.

Nearly 240 Detroiters have become homeowners this year thanks to a new program. It allows residents living in foreclosed homes to purchase that house before it goes to public auction.

The first abandoned building turned apartment building created with the Detroit Housing for Future Fund is accepting new tenants.

Detroit's new Right to Counsel Ordinance will get free lawyers for residents who make less than $27,000 dollars a year. The office is supposed to help coordinate those lawyers and residents.