Detroit’s New Housing Playbook: Faster Permits to Build (and Fix) More Homes

Detroit’s recently elected mayor, Mary Sheffield, says the city is done making people wait on the city a month or more for basic home repairs and new construction permits. 

In this episode of your Daily Detroit, I take you inside the new four‑point “housing playbook” to speed up renovations and build more single‑family homes across Detroit.

You’ll hear how same‑day permits are supposed to work, why the city is betting on pre‑approved home design templates, and what that could mean for the hundreds of thousands of homes Detroit has lost over the decades.

If you're interested in the city as a contractor, developer, official, or most importantly, resident or someone who'd like to live here some day... you'll want to tune in.  

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