Detroit City Council

While the ordinance would apply to any health care facility in the city, supporters say it’s most needed at clinics providing abortion services. Abortion rights opponents call it a violation of their First Amendment rights.

Detroit's city council voted Tuesday to hire an independent evaluator to look at whether the city is assessing homes at their true market value. According to a property tax reform ordinance the Detroit City Council passed last year, that was supposed to happen this past February.

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By Michigan law, cities are not allowed to assess homes at over 50% of their market value. But a University of Chicago study concludes that Detroit continues to do so, and disproportionately to the lowest-value homes.

In 2012, Detroiters began electing most City Council members by district. But since the city has continued to lose population and districts have become unbalanced, the Council is required to redraw the maps.

The reforms come in the wake Detroit’s devastating tax foreclosure crisis, which was driven in part by inflated assessments. From 2010 through 2016, the city overtaxed homeowners by an estimated $600 million, fueling displacement and blight that still haunt Detroit neighborhoods today.

The office will provide case management services to residents in need of affordable housing.

Detroit City Council approved more tax incentives for the District Detroit project. A Ypsilanti school teacher and poet talked about her new book of poems for children. How companies are looking to address shortage of skilled laborers. Finally, a discussion with two theater intimacy coordinators.

The deal would give the Detroit International Bridge Company, which owns the Ambassador Bridge, a piece of vacant land on Jefferson Avenue near the bridge. In return, the company would give the city $2 million to upgrade Riverside Park.

The city had said it would cut those services by 70% later this month, after the Detroit City Council rejected a contract with one of the city’s current providers. But Duggan said the federal government made it clear that would violate the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the city has found temporary providers to fill the gaps.