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Housing in Detroit
THE GOOD, THE BAD
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AND THE VACANT
2 CHARLESTON
3 DELAWARE
100%
between 7 Mile
at East
Occupancy
and Penrose
Occupancy
1 FERRY
at Brush
40%
Nobody’s home in
1 out of 3 city lots,
but most houses
OK, survey finds
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By JOHN GALLAGHER
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
A landmark survey has found
that a third of Detroit’s residential
parcels are either vacant lots or
abandoned homes, but that more
than 90% of the city’s occupied
houses remain in decent condition.
Released to the Free Press exclusively
by the Detroit Data Collaborative,
the results portray a city
of contrasts: deep in distress in
many areas, but surprisingly
strong in others. The survey,
which did not include business
sites or apartment buildings,
found more than 30,000 vacant
residential structures, with more
than 10,000 of them open to trespass
and in dangerous condition.
Organizers of the survey accented
the positive.
“It is significant that there are
more than 200,000 single-family
homes here that form a foundation
for stable neighborhoods and
growth,” said Diane McCloskey,
director of community initiatives
for Detroit’s Office of Foreclosure
Prevention and Response.
“What this survey really tells us
is that we can’t paint Detroit with
broad brush strokes,” said Kurt
Metzger, a demographer and director
of the nonprofit agency Data
Driven Detroit, which helped
conduct the survey.
One key statistic: The survey
found 91,488 vacant residential
lots in the city. But surprisingly,
26% of those vacant lots were improved
in some way — fenced,
mowed, planted with a community
garden, or in some other way reclaimed
from abandonment.
❚ GOING BEYOND THE SURVEY DATA. 9A
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10
94
2
10
DELAWARE 3
100%
Occupancy
4
50%
Occupancy
5 HUBBARD
6 WALTHAM
at Minden 46%
between Porter
and Bagley
CHARLESTON
75
1
HUBBARD
5
The three most and least
occupied areas of the city
Note: Areas include block groups with
100 or more residential parcels
Sources: Detroit Residential Parcel Survey, Google Street View
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75
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94
1 FERRY
53
JOANN
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6
WALTHAM
Inside: Take a closer look
See results of the Detroit Data Collaborative’s
survey. Two pages of graphics
examine vacancy rates, structural conditions
and housing stock. PAGES 8-9A
3
JOANN
between Park Grove
and Greiner
100%
Occupancy
94
Occupancy
MOSES HARRIS, ERIC MILLIKIN,
KOFI MYLER and KRISTI TANNER
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TIGER WOODS APOLOGIZES FOR
INFIDELITY, SAYS HE WAS ‘SELFISH’
ED WHITACRE:
Current General
Motors chairman and
CEO to get $9 million.
FRITZ HENDERSON:
Former General
Motors CEO will come
back as a consultant.
Big Ed gets
big payday
as ex-CEO
gets GM job
Former GM boss Henderson
to be automaker consultant
By TIM HIGGINS
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
While General Motors announced a $9-
million pay package for Chairman and CEO
Ed Whitacre on Friday, the surprising
news was that the automaker was hiring
former GM CEO Fritz Henderson as a consultant.
Whitacre added the CEO duties to his
plate in December after Henderson resigned
from the company under pressure
from the board, which was unhappy with
the pace of the company’s restructuring.
Henderson will consult on international
issues where his experience in Asia will be
valuable, said Chris Preuss, a GM spokesman.
We’ve got “big, big, big operations in
Asia Pacific with the international groups,
where he has a depth of talent and capability.”
Henderson, who did not receive severance
when he left GM in December, will be
paid $59,090 per month plus expenses for
20 hours of consulting work each month.
Whitacre’s pay package includes a $1.7-
million base salary, which is more generous
than Henderson’s compensation was as
CEO, and GM says it has been approved in
principle by the U.S. government’s pay
czar.
❚ WHITACRE’S COMPENSATION SEEMS ABOUT
RIGHT, EXPERTS SAY. 6A
Jail possible
as Kilpatrick
fails to pay up
By JOE SWICKARD and BEN SCHMITT
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS
A probation-violation warrant could be
issued for ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick
as soon as Monday after Friday’s
deadline passed without him making the
full payment of $79,011 toward his $1-million
restitution.
Instead, he sent $14,048 — and he paid it
February 20, 2010 11:02 with pm money / Powered orders. by TECNAVIA
MARANA, Ariz. — Speaking with
emotions both sad and angry, Tiger
Woods said Friday that he is sorry for
A request would come from the Michigan
Department of Corrections. Wayne
County Circuit Court Judge David Groner,
who ordered Kilpatrick to make the pay-