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The land bank will cut around 20 staff members, lower maintenance and operational expenses, and dip into its $55 million ...
Most of the homes purchased by Detroit residents since 2014 have appreciated in value. But some neighborhoods experienced declines.
Read full article: Land Bank Buy Back program helps new homeowners in Metro Detroit. Staff with Detroit Land Bank Authority handed out deeds to 135 people who graduated from its Home Buy Back program.
The Detroit Land Bank Authority, an entity responsible for selling vacant homes and lots in the city, expects to sell most of its structures by the end of 2023.
Detroiter Charles E. Brooks Jr. was sued by the Detroit Land Bank Authority for a blighted property on his nearly 1-acre castle complex on Detroit's east side. On Saturday, DPD chief Todd Bettison ...
The Detroit Land Bank Authority was set up as a tool to help the city redevelop its abundance of vacant, abandoned properties. The agency became more active after Mayor Mike Duggan took office in ...
A contractor has been charged in connection to billing the city of Detroit over $1 million for backfill dirt used on demolished properties that was acquired from contaminated sources at no cost. A ...
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Since 2017, the land bank said, it more than doubled its monthly closing rate on house sales, going from an average of about 100 closings to more than 200 per month last year. By Arielle Kass ...
The Land Bank Authority originally began offering the discount over the summer to any full-time educational employee at a public, private or charter school in Detroit.
DETROIT (AP) — The Land Bank Authority in Detroit has sold its 10,000th vacant side lot as part of an effort to beautify city neighborhoods and reduce blight.
The Detroit Land Bank Authority is an organization that works with the local government to sell these homes to buyers. In 2014, the city of Detroit, Wayne County, and the state of Michigan started ...