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Detroit's mayor takes on gentrification as his city bounces back from bankruptcy
DETROIT — "Hello, mayor," an elderly African-American woman calls to Mike Duggan from behind the wheel of a burgundy Buick as she slows down to get a look at the nearly 20-person entourage that has descended on her quiet residential street in Detroit's Fitzgerald neighborhood.
Dotted with overgrown lawns fronting windowless, gutted houses left for dead after the subprime mortgage crisis, Fitzgerald is the latest part of the city targeted for redevelopment, and the woman passing in her car is clearly pleased.
"Good job!" she says, giving a Duggan a thumbs-up.
A short, stocky, balding white guy who looks as though he was plucked from central casting for the role of a veteran detective on a '90s cop show, Duggan is no stranger to blocks filled with dilapidated single-family homes.
As we walk to inspect one of the 115 Fitzgerald homes the city is in the process of rebuilding — part of the Fitzgerald Neighborhood Revitalization Project that will also add a park and a bicycle greenway — other residents flag him down to lodge complaints about issues as mundane as an overgrown tree and as serious as a crumbling, forsaken home yet to be boarded up.
A natural at retail politics, Duggan, 59, welcomes the interactions, and pulls out his cellphone to call members of his administration to insure immediate action on both matters.
"Expectations are rising," Duggan, who in 2017 was reelected to a second term with an astonishing 72 percent of the vote in a city where just over 82 percent of the residents are black, told Yahoo News.
"People are putting more demands on me and more demands on the administration, and I think that's a really good thing and that will keep us motivated to work hard.".
When Duggan won the office in 2013 in the aftermath of the Great Recession, there were roughly 40,000 deserted houses across the city, some with fur coats or sets of china still inside.
Under a program that favors renovation over demolition to try to preserve the mid-century architectural character of neighborhoods, that number has now been cut in half, with many of the units set aside for affordable housing.
Walking through some Detroit neighborhoods still feels a bit post-apocalyptic, thanks to the dramatic thinning of its population and the abundance of abandoned structures it used to inhabit.
In this year's State of the City address, Duggan said he wants 8,000 more homes demolished, 2,000 sold, another 1,000 renovated and 11,000 more boarded up by the end of 2019.
While those figures attest to the scope of the task ahead, the strides the city has made as a whole during Duggan's tenure can still be measured in concrete ways.
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