State financing will support plans to turn blighted 100-year-old building on Oakland Avenue into new housing units.

For 36 years, John George has spearheaded Motor City Blight Busters’ efforts to transform Detroit’s Old Redford neighborhood. Sitting on an upstairs patio at Artist Village — a community hub ...

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 ...