Keeping Detroit at Home
At the 2nd annual Homelover’s Potluck, over a dozen of the families in The Tricycle Collective came together to meet, eat, and celebrate the end of “Foreclosure Season” here in Detroit. Some families are proud deed-holding homeowners, some are waiting to pay off land contracts, and others are struggling to find […]
The issues of water shut-off is very closely tied with tax foreclosure. For one thing, poor families who have a hard time keeping up with their taxes may also struggle to pay their water bill. Beyond that, unpaid water accounts have been used to place a lien on a property that […]
Read original NextCity article here For two years, Crystal Fischer paid a man who did not own her home $500 a month in rent. It wasn’t until the yellow tax foreclosure notices started showing up on the doorstep of her Detroit rental that the 36-year-old mother of two realized something was […]
Post-bankruptcy Detroit is a place of undeniable opportunity, and people from all walks of life are eager to make the most of it. Massive tax foreclosures led to a record 24,000 properties being up for auction this fall, pitting residents against speculators for the chance to buy a home on the cheap. […]