Block by Block is a solutions journalism series that is supported by IFF, CEDAM and Invest Detroit, and is focused on community development leaders and initiatives in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.
The project will catalyze the economic activity coming to the Bagley/Fitzgerald neighborhood by adding housing and shopping. Behind it is one of Detroit’s foremost art collectors: George N’Namdi. The property will be a work of art as well as a showplace for it.
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis may be headquartered in Indiana, but its district includes both Indiana and Michigan, where cities across the region are benefitting from partnerships between the bank and various community-based financial institutions and philanthropic organizations. The bank is making sure that Detroit is no exception.
As more cities find innovative solutions to address the affordable housing crisis, is there a focus on affordable housing in Detroit?
For Sharnita Johnson and her brother Stephen Merriweather, renovating the property their father purchased in Detroit's Hope Village neighborhood is a mission that honors not only his legacy but provides a future for their family’s next generation.
“Black people have been doing development in Detroit for as long as we've been a majority population. But the image is often one of white people doing things to our neighborhoods. I'm trying to flip that narrative by highlighting the work that Black people are actually doing.” -- Chase Cantrell
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