"I was much more interested in solving a problem. How do we build for the middle class? How do we build for normal folks who just want a small, modest home? So I saw it as a challenge ... (Citizen Robotics) is meeting that challenge head on." - Fernando Bales
On your Daily Detroit for Wednesday, February 21st, 2024 – we’re going to talk about a new approach to attainable housing. As you know, housing prices have been skyrocketing in the city, the region and the state. In fact, Detroit’s area housing prices rose faster than anywhere else in...
Jer and Devon meet Friday with some fun and hot topics. * First, where we’ve been. Jer shout outs MJ’s North End Ice Cream in Detroit; and Devon celebrates the reopening of UnBurger in downtown West Dearborn. * O’Flahertys in GPP is closed temporarily for repairs. * Unsold electric vehicles...
The Colony and Fisher Arms apartments at 9303 East Jefferson in Detroit has had a troubled past. For instance, in November of 2013, more than 150 law enforcement officers from the Detroit Police Department, Michigan State Police, and the FBI raided the apartment building and arrested 32 residents. That’s...
There’s a lot of talk on the high price end about Detroit real estate as of late, especially in the Midtown neighborhood. But here’s something different. The four-story Treymore building just went through a $7 million redevelopment project and now has 28 one and two bedroom apartments for...
After less than a year of planning the first Cass tiny home was recently completed on Elmhurst Street on Detroit’s west side. Today, we got to tour it. Tiny homes for everyone! Ok, that might be an exaggeration, and Oprah wasn’t in town. But in all seriousness, the...
The 11th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey found that out of 86 major metropolitan markets in nine different countries, Detroit’s housing market is the most affordable. The survey, perhaps one of most comprehensive collections of housing affordability data available from international markets, looked at 378 markets in Australia,...
