Tireless work by Alexa Eisenberg on increasing access to the poverty tax exemption bit.ly/2S5vR1M. Time for @cityofdetroit to focus on actually existing fraud, speculators and landlords using Personal Resident Exemptions to skirt tax not squeeze the poor. #HousingCrisis

Another step in stabilizing neighborhoods. Michael Kelly sued over 'predatory' contracts bit.ly/2DKSlkw More on Kelly's eviction practices at bit.ly/2r4hMGt. His properties are also in our #dismantlingdetroit project Urban Praxis Workshop on Instagram.

A new article by Eric Seymour and Josh Akers in Cities on the national geography of exploitative land contracts, the role of Fannie Mae, and the targeting of black communities by private equity backed speculators after the crisis. Open link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1YSAxy5jOZBlv

Detroit Land Value Tax Map 2023 detroitography.com/2023/10/30/det…

If you're wondering, "What exactly is a speculator?" Here's how we define them. outliermedia.org/speculators-de…

Speculation and the City “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.” detroitography.com/2016/05/10/spe… via @DETROITography

It’s incredibly easy for property owners to shield their identities. All you need is to set up a limited liability company, or LLC. It’s perfectly legal and extremely common. outliermedia.org/detroit-specul…

Development Creep: 40-years devaluing Detroit’s lower Cass Corridor detroitography.com/2018/10/24/dev… via @DETROITography

Via Outlier Media is on Bluesky: Speculators, working at large scales, have reshaped Detroit’s neighborhoods through neglect. metrotimes.com/news/what-is-p…

The relaunch of Property Praxis is an essential resource to understand how the profit-seeking practice has changed since real estate prices skyrocketed in recent years. outliermedia.org/property-praxi…

When you stand back, it's incredible that a small group of people wield such vast power to reshape Detroit's skyline as they see fit.

Ten years of property speculation data? Shared here by Property Praxis detroitdata.org/dataset/proper…

Join us for our next monthly data forum! Property and parcels on 12/13 with Chase Cantrell, Joshua Akers, and Aaron Mondry eventbrite.com/e/data-forum-p…

Our big ten year data update is live!

Tax foreclosed on your Detroit property? Wayne County will let you bid on it and get the profits. But who benefits from the tax auction? outliermedia.org/detroit-specul…

Map: Detroit Last Houses on the Block detroitography.com/2025/01/10/map…

This is pretty wild. Cincinnati filed court documents a couple weeks ago alleging that real estate investment company Vision & Beyond has effectively abandoned hundreds of units of housing in the city. And that's just the tip of the iceberg on this one. wvxu.org/local-news/202…

Mapping Property Speculation in Detroit 2015 - 2024 detroitography.com/2025/01/24/map… via @DETROITography

Logging into this site real quick to quickly share my latest article a company that tokenizes properties in Detroit by the hundreds, and sells the pieces to foreign investors, often in cryptocurrency. Tenants are the guinea pigs. outliermedia.org/crypto-real-es…