Since 2022, the Gilbert Family Foundation has had a home repair program for Detroit residents' homes. Recently, thousands of residents found out that help isn’t coming anytime soon.
DETROIT The newly elected City Council of Detroit is at a crossroads. It is caught between Mayor Mike Duggan, who represents the interests of big business, particularly Dan Gilbert (Quicken Loans) and the Illitch family (Little Caesars), and the residents, who are seeing their standard of living c.
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A trio of Detroit residents two white and one Asian American say they’ve been denied the opportunity to live in a racially integrated community, and they ve filed a lawsuit over it.
A suit like theirs is uncommon, but not unheard of, legal experts say. The standard of proof plaintiffs must present in such a case is high, experts say, and it s hard to say how it will do in court.
Last summer, 16 residents in part of the Islandview neighborhood, near West Village and Belle Isle, met to talk about ways to support one another during the COVID-19 pandemic. They realized nearly all of the residents gathered were white, except for one person who was Asian American. And that was part of a bigger problem in their neighborhood, they say.