Tracking spending, promises, and progress. No party lines. No corporate sponsors. Just accountability for the people of Detroit.
Key fiscal and civic metrics for the City of Detroit, updated regularly from public records.
Monitoring promises, policies, and outcomes across six critical areas affecting Detroit residents.
Tracking demolitions, tax foreclosures, affordable housing units built vs. luxury developments, and neighborhood displacement patterns.
Road conditions, streetlight coverage, water main breaks, lead pipe replacements, and public transit reliability across all districts.
School funding equity, facility conditions, teacher retention, literacy rates, and access to programs in underserved neighborhoods.
Response times, crime prevention investment, community policing efforts, surveillance expansion, and police accountability measures.
Who receives contracts, where development dollars flow, small business support vs. corporate incentives, and job creation claims.
Environmental justice, lead exposure rates, food desert mapping, healthcare access gaps, and mental health resource availability.
A breakdown of how Detroit's budget is allocated and where the largest expenditures land.
In tax incentives and abatements since 2022. Most went to downtown/midtown projects, not neighborhood development.
Only 7% of the budget goes to housing, while Detroit has 24,100 vacant properties and rising rents in target neighborhoods.
For every $1 invested in neighborhood revitalization, $3 flows to the downtown/midtown corridor.
How development patterns and policy decisions disproportionately affect Black and Latinx communities in Detroit.
Two-thirds of all tax foreclosures since 2015 have occurred in predominantly Black zip codes on the east and west sides, often due to inflated property assessments the city later acknowledged were unconstitutional.
Rents in the 48209 zip code have risen 41% since 2019, displacing long-standing Latinx families and small businesses as new development targets the neighborhood.
Homes demolished through the Detroit Land Bank with no equivalent affordable housing built on those lots. Many remain vacant years later.
Estimated value of community benefits agreements attached to development projects that remain unfulfilled or under-delivered.
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