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Duggan painted Detroit as a work in progress that’s made big strides since it exited bankruptcy 10 years ago.
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Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan made his annual budget presentation to city council members on Thursday. The council ultimately needs to approve the city’s budget.
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Mayor Mike Duggan said Monday that every residential neighborhood in the city saw home values increase in the past two years.
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The city re-opened its contract with the transit union representing drivers to add the pay increase. Drivers will start making another $6,000 a year.
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The idea is known as a land value tax, or split-rate tax. It would drastically cut tax rates on structures, while more than doubling them on land. Duggan said that would give the vast majority of Detroit homeowners a tax cut.
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The complex can house up to 48 families.
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The city said it’s conducted “rigorous sampling and testing” at 147 of 200 sites where Den-Man contractors demolished homes in 2017 and 2018. At 87 of them, the results showed “levels of arsenic, lead or other substances above statewide naturally occurring levels and in exceedance of contractual standards for direct contact.”
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The plan would tax land and buildings at different rates. Duggan is proposing a 30% tax cut on structures and a 300% increase on land.
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The Detroit Housing Resource Helpline will connect people directly to the seven agencies that make up the Detroit Housing Network.
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Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan spoke from the former Michigan Central Station, a once-abandoned eyesore now being restored as a mobility tech hub by Ford and other companies.