Stories on Detroit

  1. U-M outlines new commitments to Detroit

  2. An eviction notice in a mailbox. Image credit: Image credit: Tumisu, Pixabay.com

    Detroit eviction filings on track to return to pre-pandemic level as COVID-19 protections expire

  3. Students at Blesch Intermediate School in Menominee enjoy healthy snacks after a day of activity on the football field. Image credit: Eric Bronson, MIchigan Photography

    Healthy schools: Project reduces childhood obesity

  4. Closeup of election vote button with text that says Education. Image credit: adamkaz, iStock

    Detroiters say quality K-12 schools is top policy priority for November elections

  5. Black man holds envelope in hand above vote ballot. Image credit: iStock

    Candidate support for reparations would mobilize Detroit voters

  6. Old tires dumped in the area were painted by students and put to new uses at the Cadillac Urban Gardens. Image credit: Eric Bronson

    From garden to growth: This urban garden cultivates young leaders

  7. Aerial view of Detroit. Image courtesy DMACS

    Economic Growth Institute creates new center as part of Global Epicenter of Mobility initiative

  8. House key on a house shaped silver keyring in the lock of a door. Image credit: FabioBalbi, iStock

    Program to help Detroit renters buy homes yields 85% ownership rate four years later

  9. Spirit of Detroit Statue

    Detroit economy overcoming pandemic challenges while grappling with recession fears

  10. A row of houses in Detroit. Image courtesy: Poverty Solutions

    9 in 10 eviction cases filed during pandemic came from landlords not compliant with rental codes

  11. Examples of A) home garden and B) community garden identified via visual inspection over high resolution satellite imagery and C) indicators to identify community gardens via Google Street View.

    Do urban gardens lead to gentrification? Not in Detroit, study shows

  12. Amie Turner says her favorite thing about the Riverwalk is “looking over the water and seeing Canada, like it is the coolest thing.” Image credit: Eric Bronson, Michigan Photography

    From industrial wasteland to urban lure, Detroit’s Riverwalk sees 3 million visitors a year

  13. National Bank of Detroit Building, Detroit Financial District. Image credit: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

    Majority of Detroiters report stable, improved financial situation compared to year ago

  14. A typical scene at a Detroit City Football Club game. The minor league soccer team's motto is "Passion for Our City, Passion for the Game." Image credit: Eric Bronson, Michigan Photography

    Soccer in Motown: ‘Passion for our city, passion for the game’

  15. Students assessing an urban agricultural site in Detroit's Lower Eastside. Image credit: Dave Brenner

    Urban agriculture in Detroit: Scattering vs. clustering and the prospects for scaling up

  16. Gloved hands drawing a vaccine with masked child and adult in the backgrounds. Image courtesy: DMACS

    Detroit parents less likely to vaccinate themselves than nonparents, leads to low youth vaccination rates

  17. Aerial view of Detroit. Image courtesy DMACS

    U-M forecast: Detroit economy showing ‘resilience’ in face of pandemic downturn, though challenges persist

  18. Roary, the Detroit Lions mascot, while filming some InPACT exercise sessions at the Detroit Public Television Studio. Image credit: Daryl Marshke, Michigan Photography

    Fit as a family: Classroom fitness program expands to living rooms, parks

  19. 9/19/18 GM’s Renaissance Center and the skyline from Belle Isle in Detroit, MI. Image credit: Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography.

    Uneven recovery: Detroit unemployment rate sits at 20%

  20. University of Michigan alumnus Douglas Jones is a Detroit-based artist who co-developed the Ancestor Posterity Butterfly Garden just outside the Joseph Walker Williams Center off of Rosa Parks Boulevard. Image credit: Eric Bronson, Michigan Photography

    Ancestor garden: Community plants butterfly garden honoring Detroiters lost to COVID-19