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Construction of the Wayne County Criminal Justice Center, located off East Warren Avenue, is expected to be completed in 2022. “Living in Detroit has given me a deep understanding that fights ...
The Detroit Justice Center is shifting to a shared leadership model as founding Executive Director Amanda Alexander plans her departure. Alexander, 40, will leave the nonprofit law firm in May, ...
At the Detroit Justice Center (DJC), which Alexander founded in 2017, lawyers work with community members to make freedom dreams a reality: a community land trust to protect neighborhoods from ...
Detroit — The Detroit Justice Center along with Sugar Law Center and Schulz Law filed a lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of community members against Detroit City Council's $8.5 million expansion of ...
In exchange for the city property where the criminal justice center may get built, the city gets ownership of the 1.4 million-square-foot American Motors Corp. building at 14250 Plymouth. The ...
Why it matters: The city needs tens of thousands more affordable units to ease its housing crisis, the Detroit Justice Center found in a 2023 report.But construction costs are rising and subsidies ...
Lauren Thomas is a housing advocate with the Detroit Justice Center. She says from 2010-2016 homeowners were overtaxed by $600 million, impacting more than 100,000 households.
The Detroit Justice Center and the Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice argue in the lawsuit filed Wednesday that Detroit City Council did not have the authority to approve a $7 ...
Last Saturday on Detroit’s near east side, groups of teens sat huddled around tables talking about the future of their city. They were discussing something that normally doesn’t include the ...
Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert has offered to build a new criminal justice center in Detroit in exchange for the property that he wants to use for downtown development, including a soccer stadium.
People can sign up to attend clinics, an collaborative effort between MDS, the Michigan Department of the Attorney General, DTE Energy, Miller Canfield Law Firm, the Detroit Justice Center, the ...