As Downtown Detroit Gentrifies, Longtime Black Residents Fight Illegal Tax Foreclosures
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#2YKQE)
In Detroit, a recent study found that one in four Detroit properties have been subject to property tax foreclosure between 2011 and 2015-many of which may have been illegal. As downtown Detroit becomes increasingly gentrified, thousands of the city's longtime residents-mostly African-American families-have lost their homes to foreclosure. For more, we speak with Bernadette Atuahene, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She co-authored the study "Stategraft."