Real Estate

Journalism Workshop: Watchdogging The Wayne County Tax Auction

Come hang out with Detour Detroit and Outlier Media for a hands-on, group act of accountability journalism.

6 years ago

Why isn’t Wayne County doing more to keep speculators from exploiting the tax auction?

Even if a buyer can’t unload the property again or decides paying taxes isn’t worth the trouble, losing the house…

6 years ago

Detroit’s infamous foreclosure auction looks different this year

Every year, counties across Michigan auction off foreclosed properties whose owners have been delinquent on property taxes for three years.…

6 years ago

Why the University of Michigan is eyeing a bigger slice of Detroit

In many ways, the school has been able to operate in bucolic Ann Arbor while existing wholly separate from Detroit:…

6 years ago

People are calling this obscure change to Detroit’s water bills the ‘rain tax’

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6 years ago

OPINION: Detroit isn’t a tale of two cities. There’s something worse going on.

During the hours when people are in line to find secure housing, their means of transportation is silently whisked away.

6 years ago

Should the Detroit auto show park on Belle Isle?

It’s pretty irrational, when you stop and think about it, that Detroit’s largest festival happens each year in the dead…

6 years ago

What the wildest train station renovations in America could mean for Detroit

Yes, the entire world knows that Ford bought the abandoned Michigan Central Station. But what on earth will they do…

6 years ago

What the Bus?!

Last edition, Detour dove into the details of the proposed Detroit regional transit plan and the Regional Transit Authority’s urgent maneuvering to…

7 years ago

Meet the District Detroit’s defender

With the constant drone of construction, bumper-to-bumper traffic and flurry of development announcements, it’s obvious something is going on in “The…

7 years ago