DETROIT (WXYZ) — Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan delivered his final report on the city's residential blight removal program, marking the near completion of one of his ...

Finding new uses for 18 square miles of vacant lots is one of Detroit's next challenges as planners and resident groups pitch their ideas.

Lisa Waud’s ‘Flower House’ (all images by Heather Saunders Photography) DETROIT — Two common themes in the Detroit lexicon: blighted houses, and nature persisting despite architectural ruin. Lisa Waud ...

Detroit has demolished roughly 27,000 abandoned houses and sold another 19,000 formerly vacant homes since Mayor Mike Duggan took office in 2014 and embarked on what became one of the largest ...

DETROIT – The sun was shining, the table was set and here came the wasps trying to spoil it all. “I feel so bad,” Kesha Rand said apologetically to her guests as they swatted the air with their hands.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan's blight removal program cut abandoned Land Bank homes from 47,000 to under 1,000, boosting property ...