Detroit is Exporting Solutions.


Welcome to Detroit's Playbook where we show you how we restored, revitalized and reclaimed our grand heritage. This is Detroit’s map to recovery showing how, through city programs and community partnerships, Detroit is building solutions to the nation’s toughest problems. Under Mayor Mike Duggan’s leadership, Detroit transformed from devastation to a national destination. We’re not a new Detroit, we’re an improved Detroit.

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FIRST-HAND: DETROITERS TELL THEIR STORIES

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Chapter 2 Affordable Housing

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Undaunted Detroit 10 years of innovation
Mayor Duggan takes office. $30M neighborhood fund. 65,000 streetlights replaced. Bankruptcy exit.
$2M grants for entrepreneurs. 5,600 jobs. 4,000 demolitions. $8M home repair loans begin.
Clean Slate begins. $8M crime center. Detroit Promise expands. $185M streetlight replacements.
Little Caesars Arena opens. 'Detroiters' debut. Eddystone Hotel transforms into apartments.
$5M in grants. Project Safe Neighborhoods starts. State financial oversight ends.
$80M streetscape program improves neighborhoods.
$4M housing fund. Sakthi renovation starts. Financial oversight of schools ends.
$2.2B GM Factory Zero. $400M Amazon center. 5,000 jobs at Stellantis Jeep plant.
1,500 jobs at Fort Street campus. Detroit named top city by Time. $10M in grants.
Detroit For Life launches. $1.9M EV-charging road. Unemployment at 5.8%, lowest in 23 years.
Population grows for first time in 67 years. 18.5% drop in homicides. $950M Ford Central opens.
7.5-minute response time. Credit rating restored. $1B in housing. 775K attend NFL draft.
Population increase, Ford Michigan Central project opens, 18.5% homicide drop.
7.5-minute response time. Credit rating restored. $1B in housing. 775K NFL draft attendance.
1,500 jobs at Fort Street. Detroit named a top place by Time. $10M in grants.
$2.2B GM Factory Zero. $400M Amazon center. 5,000 jobs at Stellantis Jeep plant.
$4M housing fund. Sakthi renovation. Financial oversight of schools ends.
$80M streetscape program to improve neighborhoods.

DETROIT’S SIX KEYS TO A SOLUTION CITY