Block by Block is a solutions journalism series that is supported by CEDAM, Michigan CDFI, and Invest Detroit, and is focused on community development leaders and initiatives in Michigan.
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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