"Homes in this neighborhood go for between $400,000 to $600,000 now, and we've spent much more than that on this renovation," ...

DETROIT – The sun was shining, the table was set and here came the wasps trying to spoil it all. “I feel so bad,” Kesha Rand said apologetically to her guests as they swatted the air with their hands.

Before the launch of the residential blight removal program in 2014, the Land Bank owned 47,000 abandoned houses across the city.

In a little more than a decade, Detroit leaders figured out how to quickly take control of tens of thousands of abandoned, ...

Lisa Waud’s ‘Flower House’ (all images by Heather Saunders Photography) DETROIT — Two common themes in the Detroit lexicon: blighted houses, and nature persisting despite architectural ruin. Lisa Waud ...

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan's blight removal program cut abandoned Land Bank homes from 47,000 to under 1,000, boosting property values from $4.2B to $8.8B. I found fame as an ’80s rock star. Now I'm ...

Detroit Catholic Pastoral Alliance has been buying and renovating single-family homes and apartments in Detroit’s Gratiot Woods neighborhood for nearly 20 years. Founded in the wake of the 1967 ...