Tearing down abandoned homes has proven benefits, such as reducing crime and toxic materials, but it doesn’t pay for itself.

Detroit City Council made the final call Tuesday to tear up two development agreements because the projects have failed to ...

Detroit is still losing inhabitants ... More than half its 1,200 properties are vacant lots. About 60 houses were unoccupied, but that number continues to decline. Population loss in this part ...

An ongoing reduction in the demand for housing leads to an oversupply of vacant properties ... at the success of razing blighted properties in Detroit. Between 2014 and 2019, the city demolished ...