Months after taking office, the auto industry collapsed and the United States entered the Great Recession of 2008. Despite these challenges, we unraveled city government, making our work transparent and open. We cleaned up the city’s finances, opened police precincts in Detroit’s neighborhoods and helped a city heal after years of corruption.
In 2003 Warren Buffet said Detroit has "huge potential" and might even be a place for Berkshire Hathaway to invest if he finds a suitable company. Today, Berkshire Hathaway announced The Loft Warehouse joins their HomeServices Real Estate Brokerage Network, their first investment in the City of Detroit.
The THMuller Galleri, the lofts and Detroit Denim, together tell a great story about Detroit. Refurbishing a vacant building in an untapped section of Detroit, relocating an office from the suburbs, securing Detroit Denim as a tenant that represents the grit of Detroit and the future of manufacturing in the Motor City and building lofts to build a community — Complemented by an art gallery and Swedish-artist to weave arts and culture into a city’s renaissance.
Detroit in Transition – A plan to move Detroit Forward (Part 6 of 8)
Despite world-class health systems in the city of Detroit, the city must work to expand access to medical care and work to increase funding for Detroit’s Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC).
Detroit in Transition – A plan to move Detroit Forward (Part 5 of 8)
In addition, 60 percent of the children living in Detroit live in poverty. For adults living in Detroit below the poverty level, that rate is 38 percent. However, it would be higher if the federal government increased the poverty guidelines. If it did, Detroit would be able to secure additional resources to help its struggling population. Instead, many try to make ends meet within this gap and continue to struggle.
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