Rebuilding Home

Jointly authored by Detroit Future City and Enterprise Community Partners for the Detroit Neighborhood Housing Compact, Rebuilding Home provides an intimate overview of the approaches and challenges associated with single-family redevelopment across Detroit’s community development sector. Most of the information and data in this report was gathered through first-hand interviews with executive directors and other leaders working to reactivate Detroit’s vacant housing stock as part of broader revitalization efforts. This information is packaged into three narrative-style case studies outlining larger rehabilitation programs taken to scale over decades. The report also includes six one-page insights that highlight lessons learned from projects completed within the past five years.