Filling The G A P S In Neighborhoods
12 December 2000 - 3:00pm
Detroit has vacant land in between neighborhoods and needs new housing but developers aren't rushing in. Why?
"Builders are more certain they can sell expensive houses in Detroit, but are not so sure they can sell middle-class homes in the city...Detroit's city departments -- planning, engineering, building -- were busy...from the 1920s through the 1950s. Now they aren't....commercial builders face a city bureaucracy that is slow to approve and examine new housing."
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Filling The G a p s In Neighborhoods
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The Detroit News, December 10, 2000
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