City of Detroit Announces Leadership Changes, Housing Chief Joins Biden Administration
City of Detroit Announces Leadership Changes, Housing Chief Joins Biden Administration
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has announced a series of leadership changes following Arthur Jemison’s appointment as principal deputy assistant secretary in the HUD’s Office of Community Planning and Development in the Biden administration.
Donald Rencher // Photo courtesy of Center for Community Investment
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has announced a series of leadership changes following Arthur Jemison’s appointment as principal deputy assistant secretary in the HUD’s Office of Community Planning and Development in the Biden administration.
Arthur Jemison, the city of Detroit s top planning executive, has joined President Joe Biden s administration for a role at the nation s housing and development arm, city officials announced Thursday.
Jemison will serve as the principal deputy assistant secretary in the office of community planning and development at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Donald Rencher, who leads Detroit s housing and revitalization department, will take up Jemison s post and become the city s new group executive for housing, planning and development. He s basically the No. 3 person in America at HUD, Mayor Mike Duggan said of Jemison during a Thursday media briefing. .It s an extraordinary honor for the city of Detroit that the country s leader in rebuilding communities, has been hired out of our administration. . It reflects what Arthur Jemison did here.
Detroit s Transfiguration School readied for housing transformation
The former Transfiguration School is undergoing a transformation.
The city of Detroit’s Housing & Revitalization Department said Tuesday that construction has begun on a $7.2 million project to renovate the historic school building into affordable housing.
The Transfiguration Place Apartments at 13300 Syracuse is a result of the city issuing on the behalf of the Archdiocese of Detroit a request for proposals that would put the building back into use. The developers are Detroit-based Ethos Development Partners and Cinnaire Solutions.
“This project is about the community coming together to find solutions to both our need for affordable housing and the question on what to do with the many historic but unused buildings that dot our city,” Mayor Mike Duggan said in a statement Tuesday.
$6M invested for Corktown community benefits, Ford says
Ford Motor Co. has fulfilled or made progress on 36 out of 43 commitments it made on initiatives such as affordable housing and workforce development as part of a community benefits agreement tied to its Michigan Central project in Corktown.
So far, the Blue Oval has fulfilled its promise to contribute $2.5 million to a city affordable housing fund, invested $2 million of a planned $3 million for workforce development initiatives, contributed $1 million of $2.5 million to be spent on neighborhood development and invested $500,000 of a planned $2 million for education and youth development.
And Friday, applications will open for a $750,000 home-repair program Ford is funding in the three neighborhoods covered by the agreement.
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