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Detroit Landlords Sue The Court– For Not Evicting Tenants Fast Enough

August 16, 2021August 17, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 36th district court, affordable housing, Detroit, detroit evictions, eviction moratorium, evictions, housing security, law, lawsuit, mayor mike duggan, mike duggan

A class action lawsuit, filed today in Detroit, alleges that the 36th District Court violated the US Constitution by “depravation

Real Estate Urban Planning Mobility Housing

Greenways, The Ultimate High-Density Corridor Development Tool?

May 21, 2021May 21, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments active living, adaptive reuse, affordable housing, AMI, bde maka ska, corridor, corridor development, cycling infrastructure, Density, density bonus, Detroit, displacement, Gentrification, high-density development, housing, housing development, inclusionary zoning, industrial corridors, industrial redevelopment, joe louis greenway, lake calhoun, lake harriet, low-density, luxury rentals, market rate rentals, mid-density, midtown greenway, minneapolis, minneapolis midtown greenway, mixed-income, mixed-use, new construction, nonmotorized infrastructure, nonmotorized transportation, pedestrian infrastructure, real estate, real estate development, recreation, rental housing, safe streets, the out-of-doors, transit corridors, YIMBY

Nat compares the Midtown Greenway in Minneapolis to the Joe Louis Greenway in Detroit, which broke ground this past week.

Urban Planning Cities & Urban Planning Tech

Tech Launched A Big Push To Fix Cities. What Happened?

March 10, 2021March 10, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments affordable housing, affordable housing shortage, airbnb, backyard, ben huh, cavnue, cheezburger, Ford, GM, google, greg lindsay, heavy timber framing, i can haz cheezburger, manufactured housing, manufacturing, memelord, memes, modular housing, nithin vejendla, platform economy, quiet pivot, Richard Florida, samara, sidewalk infrastructure partners, sidewalk labs, silicon valley, social construct, startup, sustainable cities, tech, tech startup, waste, y cities, y combinator, Y-Combinator, yc

Sidewalk Labs (Google), AirBnB, and Y Combinator all launched ambitious initiatives to build the technologically advanced, equitable, sustainable cities of tomorrow. What happened?

Sustainability Poverty Energy Housing Utilities

MPSC December Meeting: Neighborhood-Level Equity and Energy

December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments affordable housing, Brad Banks, Briana Parker, CMS, Consumers Energy, Detroit, DTE Energy, economic justice, Elevate Energy, energy, energy justice, housing, Indiana Michigan Power, mary templeton, metro detroit, michigan, michigan public service commission, MPSC, public utilties, racial justice, racism, redlining, SEAS, segregation, SEMCO, Sharonda Williams-Tack, Sierra Club, Tim Skrotzki, Tony G. Reames, Tony Reames, utilities, water justice

Dr. Tony G. Reames of the University of Michigan, Briana Parker of Elevate Energy, and others presented at an MPSC meeting on some approaches to the question of equity in energy efficiency for low-income communities and communities of color.

Detroit Urban Planning

Awake, East Warren! Dreaming Mixed-Use in Detroit’s Farthest-Flung Corridor

December 2, 2020December 2, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments affordable, affordable housing, apartments, bank, banking, banks, densification, Density, Detroit, east english village, eddie carrington, euclidean zoning, flux, flux city, form-based zoning code, grosse pointe, invest detroit, joe rashid, multifamily housing, parking minimums, real estate, real estate development, rental, street parking, surface parking, traditional main street overlay, upzoning, use-based zoning code, warren, Zoning

A new, mid-density development project on Detroit’s far east side is materializing, heralding a new dawn for a corridor that has struggled with autocentric, low density and disinvestment for decades.

Construction Energy

Rehabbed or Pre-Habbed? Two Approaches To Distressed Real Estate

November 17, 2020November 17, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments affordable housing, construction, flipping, home renovation, house flippers, house flipping, investment property, redevelopment, rehab, rental property

Handbuilt’s approach to real estate development involves taking guesswork out of the equation at the beginning of a project by creating a set of construction schedules, scopes, scans, and images using a Matterport camera.

YouLam No. 3 – Combat Midwinter Malaise With Good Journalism!

February 19, 2020February 15, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments affordable housing, american society of adaptation professionals, climate leadership conference, coronavirus, Donald Trump, hennessy, housing, jeff bezos, lloyd blankfein, los angeles, minoru yamasaki, neoclassical architecture, prop hhh, startingbloc, trump, youlam

After a long stretch of tepid gloom, winter has hit like the gabbagool. It’s the latest YouLam. Here’s the news:

Alleys: The Back Road To Sustainable Development

January 13, 2020February 10, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments Accessory dwelling unit, ADU, affordable housing, alleys, Cadillac Escalade, combined sewer overflow, CUBA, currently unsubsidized but affordable, Density, Ford F150, garages, green stormwater infrastructure, GSI, infrastructure, naturally occurring affordable housing, NOAH, residential construction, southwest detroit, stormwater infrastructure, stormwater management, stormwater retention

Alleys, an oft-forgotten component of the urban fabric, have transformative potential for infrastructure and real estate.

Urban Planning Affordable housing

A Mayor Should Create Value, Not Refinance The Lack Of It

November 6, 2019November 6, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments affordable housing, blight, brian farkas, christine ferretti, deadline detroit, demolition, duggan, HHF, HUD, kwame kilpatrick, mike duggan, violet ikonomova

Mike Duggan’s latest proposal to “eliminate blight” includes a proposed $250 million bond issue to finance his ongoing demolition program,

Urban Planning Affordable housing

Sorry, Tim– Pocket Change Can’t Fix Suburbia.

November 5, 2019November 5, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments affordable housing, apple, BART, bay area, big tech, california, Density, google, high-speed rail, mountain view, palo alto, regional planning, san jose, sunnyvale, transit, YIMBY, Zoning

Apple just announced that it’s committing a bunch of money to housing development in the Bay Area. That’s good, right?!

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