Southwest Detroit Hospital has been vacant for about 18 years and many nearby residents consider it an eyesore.

Detroit just struck a deal with the owner of scores of empty buildings. Both sides hope it will be a reset and result in fewer empty blight buildings.

The founder of the Detroit Blight Authority sees his nomination to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency advance toward a ...

Controversial real estate investor Dennis Kefallinos and the city of Detroit have reached a court settlement wherein he will ...

Despite this, his family had to sell or dispose of them. The Detroit Police Department tells Local 4 that its approach to blight enforcement covers the entire city with the primary goal that every ...

Greenfield Supply Center in Detroit will cut dust pollution as part of a settlement in a multiyear legal dispute over blight ...

owes the city of Detroit at least $2 million in unpaid taxes and 1,000 blight tickets. RealT has been selling homes in Detroit to foreign real estate investors. Photo by Nick Hagen for The ...

Rick Snyder to form the Detroit Blight Authority to clean up some of the estimated 80,000 vacant residential structures in the city. In February 2013 the DBA cleared 218 lots, demolishing abandoned ...

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“It’s a time to come together as a community,” said John George of Blight Busters. “As neighbors. As friends. To not only patrol and protect Detroit, but to celebrate all of the positive ...

In Michigan, he founded and chaired the Detroit Blight Authority, a nonprofit organization instrumental in getting rid of abandoned and dilapidated buildings in the city to stabilize neighborhoods.