“It's safe to come, we've got lattes”: Development disparities in Detroit

Reese, Laura A.; Eckert, Jeanette; Sands, Gary; Vojnovic, Igor

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2016.10.014

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“…Long-term residents are increasingly concerned about rapid redevelopment focused on the downtown core and mostly benefiting large corporations and predominantly White newcomers to the city. These investments have created booming development in the city’s downtown, but the impact of these improvements is invisible in high poverty neighborhoods (Reese et al 2017).…”

Section: Discussion: Nonprofit Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Many have heralded the efforts of foundations and nonprofits to step into the void left by the local government to develop a vision of Detroit that is sustainable going forward. However, others have cautioned that neighborhoods and resident voices have been missing from many parts of the city’s development regime and that the causal factors contributing to bankruptcy have yet to be resolved (Reese et al 2017; Cohen 2016).…”

Section: Detroit and Flint: Crisis As A Focusing Eventmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Governing Without Government: Nonprofit Governance in Detroit and Flint

Reckhow

Downey

Sapotichne

2019

Urban Affairs Review

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Scholars across the social sciences have shown how economic, social, and political changes are weakening local governments and contributing to rising nonprofit activity in urban politics. But these trends could now add up to a new form of decision-making in some American cities. The convergence of public sector austerity and a burgeoning philanthropic and nonprofit sector have created space for what we call “nonprofit governance.” In some cities, nonprofit leaders can guide urban policy, sometimes with limited input from elected officials or citizens. First, we apply insights from studies in comparative politics to demonstrate how nonprofit leadership can expand, particularly in the context of a weak state. Next, we assess trends in public sector capacity, based on local government employment in Midwestern U.S. cities. We closely examine Detroit and Flint due to dramatic declines in local government capacity and recent public sector crises in both cities, focusing on the role of nonprofits in each. These leading-edge cases allow us to trace the development of nonprofit governance and explore different forms of nonprofit and local government relationships.

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Section: Discussion: Nonprofit Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Detroit and Flint: Crisis As A Focusing Eventmentioning

confidence: 99%

Governing Without Government: Nonprofit Governance in Detroit and Flint

Reckhow

Downey

Sapotichne

2019

Urban Affairs Review

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“…This distribution conforms to our expectations given the city’s high overall poverty and unemployment rates. Although the city contains several stable neighborhoods with higher than average homeownership rates and household income, these areas are outnumbered by neighborhoods with lower home values and lower-income residents (Deng et al 2018; Reese et al 2017). Looking next at mortgage foreclosures, each strata accounts for a percentage of total foreclosures close to their share of households, though we find a positive association between income and foreclosure rates, with the highest-income strata having a rate of 38.5 foreclosures per 100 mortgageable properties 2006–2010.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building the Eviction Economy: Speculation, Precarity, and Eviction in Detroit

Seymour

Akers

2019

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Evictions have recently gained attention as a problem affecting millions of households worldwide. This study contributes to knowledge on the conditions leading to housing insecurity and evictions by examining the role of foreclosure markets in feeding portfolios of slum landlords and contract sellers in Detroit’s single-family residential neighborhoods. Leveraging data from tax foreclosure auctions and eviction filings from 2005 to 2017, we link foreclosure sales to subsequent eviction cases and estimate the neighborhood-level impact of prior year tax sales on current year evictions. We separately examine the acquisition size and eviction rate of major individual auction buyers. These findings shed light on the contemporary construction of eviction economies in distressed cities through foreclosure markets and investors’ methods for profiting from the constrained housing options of low-income and credit-impaired households.

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“…From 2000 to 2010, Detroit lost 25% of its population, while downtown only lost 12.5%. Concomitantly, many of the private sector developments and investments have occurred downtown and not in other parts of the city (Reese et al, 2017). Given the changing context of downtown Detroit, Pedroni (2011) argues that the city is undergoing a "spatial fix-also a racial fix-[that] reproduces and intensifies inequality and exclusion along the lines of race, class, and ethnicity" (p. 206).…”

Section: Detroit's Contextmentioning

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Closed Schools, Open Markets: A Hot Spot Spatial Analysis of School Closures and Charter Openings in Detroit

2019

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The purpose of this study is to use geographic information systems to map the spatial distribution of traditional public school closures and the opening of charter schools in Detroit. To achieve this purpose, we examine the following research questions: (a) How are traditional public school closures and the opening of charter schools spatially distributed throughout neighborhoods in Detroit during three education policy eras? (b) How, if at all, might these schools' spatial patterns cluster in certain neighborhoods to create hot spots of traditional public school closures and/or charter school openings? As such, this descriptive study uses hot spot geospatial analysis to identify whether the spatial occurrence of traditional public school closures and charter school openings is randomly distributed or if it occurs in statistically significant spatial clusters. Rollback and rollout neoliberalism is used to theoretically frame the study and guide the analysis. Findings suggest that charter school openings occur more often in hot spots or concentrated ways than the closure of traditional public schools in Detroit. We conclude with implications for future research.

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“It's safe to come, we've got lattes”: Development disparities in Detroit

Cited by 25 publications

References 10 publications

Governing Without Government: Nonprofit Governance in Detroit and Flint

Governing Without Government: Nonprofit Governance in Detroit and Flint

Building the Eviction Economy: Speculation, Precarity, and Eviction in Detroit

Closed Schools, Open Markets: A Hot Spot Spatial Analysis of School Closures and Charter Openings in Detroit

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