Detroit Has a New Tool for Fighting Gentrification’s Displacement (dollars, Chicago)

[jm1982]

Now Detroit is becoming unaffordable?...

Yes Councilwoman Sheffield, it would be just awful if Detroit become a city like NYC ,D.C or Boston..just awful!

Anybody else think this type of action is a bit premature?..
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Councilwoman Mary Sheffield championed both ordinances, and said at a press conference last week that they were an attempt to fight rising rents and the displacement that so often follows.
“The gentrification that we see in New York, D.C., Chicago and Boston is not welcome in Detroit,” she said.


https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/det...n-displacement

[T-310]

Who is gentrifying it?

Who even wants to live there?

[Slats Grobnick]

Seems like a publicity stunt meant to hype up Detroit.

I seriously, seriously doubt Detroit is gentrifying.

There are some young hipsters moving in but not to the point of displacing anyone. My understanding is that they are taking over abandoned buildings.

Nevertheless, props to the council woman on her clever scheme

[Frank DeForrest]

Who is gentrifying Detroit?

Developers who receive more than a set threshold of public subsidies — $500,000 from either the city or state and federal programs —

developer piggies at the tax trough.

[PilgrimsProgress]

Gentrification in Detroit means the plywood has been replaced by windows.

[biggunsmallbrains]

Originally Posted by jm1982

Now Detroit is becoming unaffordable?...

Yes Councilwoman Sheffield, it would be just awful if Detroit become a city like NYC ,D.C or Boston..just awful!

Anybody else think this type of action is a bit premature?..
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Councilwoman Mary Sheffield championed both ordinances, and said at a press conference last week that they were an attempt to fight rising rents and the displacement that so often follows.
“The gentrification that we see in New York, D.C., Chicago and Boston is not welcome in Detroit,” she said.


https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/det...n-displacement

Why would planning for your future be premature?

[Retroit]

Another example of government trying to solve a problem it created. Give tax breaks and tax dollars to billionaires to build stadiums and office buildings, then complain that poor people can't afford to love there.

[jm1982]

I do think this is more of a me too type policy.

Anti gentrification is a big SJW issue right now and Detroit doesn't want to feel left out .

[GotHereQuickAsICould]

Detroit is being gentrified?

Who knew?

[Toyman at Jewel Lake]

So rather than let Detroit improve, jobs come in and neighborhoods be turned into something other than dumps...let's make it so no one can have nice things. Trickle up poverty and misery-the left's accomplishment.