Detroit is a finalist in the Living Cities Integration Initiative

Living Cities is a philanthropic collaborative of the world's 22 largest foundations and financial institutions. Their focus is improving the lives of low-income people and the communities they live in. The Integration Initiative hopes to go beyond business as usual with urban issues and apply some innovative thinking to the status quo. The Integration Initiative has announced ten finalists for the program and Detroit was one of them.

Excerpt from a Living Cities press release:

Ten cities were chosen as finalists in Living Cities' Integration Initiative. The initiative will provide a package of $15 million in grants and loans to up to five winning cities to support new, bold approaches that bring together leaders from across multiple sectors to improve the lives of low-income people in significant and measurable ways.

The finalists – Albuquerque, Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, New Orleans, Newark, Twin Cities, San Antonio and San Francisco – were chosen from a pool of 19 cities that submitted 23 proposals for tackling widespread social and economic problems among their low-income residents. Each finalist is pursuing a bold approach that tackles big systems such as housing, workforce and transit to make them work for all residents. Living Cities will announce up to five winning cities from among the ten finalists in the fall.

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