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Even if a buyer can’t unload the property again or decides paying taxes isn’t worth the trouble, losing the house to the auction is worth...
Every year, counties across Michigan auction off foreclosed properties whose owners have been delinquent on property taxes for three years. While it’s a state-mandated, quiet...
In many ways, the school has been able to operate in bucolic Ann Arbor while existing wholly separate from Detroit: well endowed, humming along and...
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During the hours when people are in line to find secure housing, their means of transportation is silently whisked away....
It’s pretty irrational, when you stop and think about it, that Detroit’s largest festival happens each year in the dead of winter when most people...
Yes, the entire world knows that Ford bought the abandoned Michigan Central Station. But what on earth will they do with it?...
Last edition, Detour dove into the details of the proposed Detroit regional transit plan and the Regional Transit Authority’s urgent maneuvering to bolster public support. This week...
With the constant drone of construction, bumper-to-bumper traffic and flurry of development announcements, it’s obvious something is going on in “The District Detroit,†the name for...
