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Is Detroit still cheating homeowners on taxes? New audit to find out.

A recent study suggested the city's lower-income residents are being disproportionately gouged

By Steve Neavling
Jul 2, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, Real Estate, Government, Tax assessment, property values, homes, Detroit, Mayor Duggan, Coalition for Property Tax Justice, Bernadette Atuahene, International Association of Assessing Officers
Metro Detroit

Wayne County treasurer rejects moratorium on foreclosures despite troubling study

Activists and the Detroit City Council say the city is cheating lower-income residents by illegally and disproportionately overtaxing homes

By Steve Neavling
Apr 11, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Real Estate, property tax foreclosures, homes, evictions, Detroit, Wayne County, Treasurer Sabree, Coalition for Property Tax Justice, Detroit City Council
Metro Detroit

Detroit home values rise for sixth straight year, jumping 20% in 2022

The growth suggests that demand for homes is finally rebounding following six straight decades of population loss

By Steve Neavling
Jan 13, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, Mayor Duggan, home values, property taxes, neighborhoods, homes
Metro Detroit

Investors bought record number of homes in majority-Black cities like Detroit in 2021, according to report

By Lee DeVito
Feb 17, 2022

Tags: Detroit News, Detroit, homes, houses, inequality, corporate greed
Metro Detroit

More Black Detroiters are living in substandard houses after foreclosure crisis, study finds

By Steve Neavling
Oct 21, 2021

Tags: Detroit, substandard houses, University of Michigan, study, asthma, health, neighborhoods, apartments, renters, homes, abandonment
Metro Detroit

Duggan unveils plan to help homeowners over-billed by inflated tax assessments

By Steve Neavling
Oct 27, 2020

Tags: Property taxes, taxes, Detroit, Mayor Duggan, Detroit City Council, property values, foreclosures, homes, Detroit Land Bank
Metro Detroit

Racial disparities continue in mortgage lending in Detroit

By Steve Neavling
Mar 21, 2019

Tags: News Hits, Homes, mortgages, banks, Detroit, Rent, Racism, JPMorgan Chase
Food News

New brewery with Asian street food menu opens today in Ann Arbor

By Tom Perkins
Apr 19, 2017

Tags: Table and Bar, HOMES, Ann Arbor, brewery
Metro Detroit

One family fights to win their house back in the Wayne County foreclosure auction after being scammed by a sub-subprime entrepreneur

Out from under

By Allie Gross
Nov 4, 2015

Tags: Local News, Foreclosure, Detroit, Homes, Cover Story

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