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The idea is known as a land value tax, or split-rate tax. It would drastically cut tax rates on structures, while more than doubling them on land. Duggan said that would give the vast majority of Detroit homeowners a tax cut.

The plan comes from the Osborn Neighborhood Alliance, which has purchased several duplexes to rehab and sell at a discounted rate. The group plans to sell to buyers who will live in one unit, and rent out the second to families with low-income housing vouchers.

The plan would tax land and buildings at different rates. Duggan is proposing a 30% tax cut on structures and a 300% increase on land.

In his annual address to the Detroit City Council on Thursday, Ombudsman Bruce Simpson laid out a series of recommendations, and detailed his department’s work fielding citizen complaints against various city departments.

“I am obsessed with a goal: To eliminate blight from the city of Detroit entirely by 2025,” Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said recently.Duggan has said some…

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Another 50 Detroit families will own the homes they currently live in, thanks to a city program.The Detroit Land Bank Authority’s occupied buy-back…

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Wayne County is currently in the midst of the largest municipal property auction in United States history.Some 30,000 properties are on the auction block,…