As Detroit runs out of abandoned homes, the need for leaders to create policy around vacant lots grows, writes Detroit Land ...

Detroit is running out of abandoned homes. Over the past decade, thousands of abandoned homes have been salvaged and rehabilitated, providing Detroiters access to affordable housing options. While the ...

Councilmember Mary Sheffield has a 12-year record of both legislative wins and compromises on issues like housing and worker protections. Sheffield's most ambitious proposals often faced resistance ...

Detroit's mayor was tasked with balancing the budget and improving city services following municipal bankruptcy. The city's next mayor will have a solid financial track to work with, experts say, but ...

In 2018, with thousands of Detroit households facing water shutoffs or tax foreclosures, a then-31-year-old Councilmember Mary Sheffield stood before city hall to unveil the "People’s Bills," a ...

As Detroiters gear up to vote for a new mayor and city council, questions loom about the city's long-term financial resilience following its emergence from a historic bankruptcy and 12 years of ...

Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield and the Rev. Solomon Kinloch, Jr. faced off in the first — and, so far, only — televised mayoral debate Wednesday ...

There is not much land left for Wilmington to build on, so the city has no choice but to flip homes to address an urgent need for housing. Wilmington nonprofits take their own parts of the city and ...

The Wilmington Land Bank is facing criticism over alleged lack of transparency and accountability. City Council member Shanè Darby has proposed an ordinance to reform the land bank's board and ...

Through its new program, the Department of Metropolitan Development says, it has acquired 140 properties in 2024 and 2025, and has put 115 of those back on the market. (IBJ photo/Chad Williams) Over ...

Rhodesia Jones, 25, of Detroit, was arraigned in the 52-4 District Court in Troy on one count of embezzlement-financial institutions, a 20-year felony, and two counts of taxes-failure to file/false ...

Fran Sutton, a real estate broker-turned-developer in Kansas City, Kansas, on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. Sutton is trying to address a local housing shortage by tapping into some of the more than 4,300 ...