Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick recently unveiled details of his Next Detroit Neighborhood Initiative.

This initiative will target 6 specific neighborhoods where vacancy rates are at 15%.
The neighborhoods, Northend, Brightmoor, Grand River-Greenfield, the Osborn community, Seven Mile-Livernois and East English Village each have varying issues that plague the communities. Some of the initiatives being discussed are increased demolitions, code violations and removal of abandoned automobiles.

For an overview of the goals for each neighborhood, please click here 

To view a report on the initiative, please click here

To view an interactive map of the neighborhoods, please click here.

The affected zip codes include parts of,
48202,48205,48219,48221,48223-24,48227 and 48239

For the Workplans for each area, please click on the following links.

Northend

Brightmoor

Grand River-Greenfield

Osborn community

Seven Mile-Livernois

East English Village

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