One study found that between 2009 and 2015, the City of Detroit inflated the market value of 53 to 84 percent of its homes, violating the Michigan Constitution’s rules for calculating property ...

In graphic terms, the president has focused on three areas he says make the city an embarrassment and nightmare: its appearance, crime and poverty.

The city council also approved a trio of special event permit applications and six reappointments to commissions.

Residents on the southwest side of Detroit are left with major destruction to clean up after hundreds of homes were flooded by Monday's water main break.

It could be six weeks before many can return, a city water official said. Subfreezing temperatures may have contributed to ...

Keith is unhoused. He’s a fixture at Eight Mile and Woodward in Detroit and was kind enough to talk about the challenges he ...

Bicycles are the wheels for the planet, say cycling enthusiasts "Go to the slums, find out what in what condition people are staying. States do not have money to provide affordable housing and we ...

Machhar Colony — also known as Muhammadi Colony — is believed to be the oldest and the largest slum area of the metropolitan city. Primarily home to Bengali community, the slum, which is ...

Detroit Fire Department crews used a ladder to rescue a person from a car amid a water main break-related flood.

James Dewitt Yancey - better known as J Dilla was a Detroit hip hop legend. J Dilla was a rapper, song writer, composer and producer who broke out in the 1990s with the group Slum Village.