"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 the country. That’s putting the idea of owning a home out of reach, and maybe we need to look at some new ways of tackling this problem. That’s where a new program, “Tomorrow’s Housing Innovation Showcase...
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 are piling up, but why? It’s complicated. * Devon has additional details from the developer on the nine story building on Broadway in Detroit that’s being built behind historic facades – that much...
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 after receiving about 600 calls for service at the building in that year. But on Friday, Mayor Mike Duggan as well as the developers were showing off a very different story. The new owners...
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 low income occupants. The 1900s era building on Brainard had been abandoned for more than 20 years before Paradise Valley Investment Group (PVI) stepped up and bought the building for renovation. “Rest...
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 plan is to have 25 tiny homes for people who qualify for the program. Reverend Faith Fowler came up with the idea to build tiny homes in the area by the Cass Community campus near Elmhurst and the Lodge freeway to give people t...
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, Canada, China, Japan, Ireland, Singapore, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In total, the survey found 14 afford...
