Problem:
Mayor Duggan faces significant leadership and fiscal challenges as jobs and continue to move of the city leaving in their wake severe poverty, foreclosures homelessness and a persist high crime rate. As well, Detroit's older -ring" have a unique set of challenges, such as concentrations of elderly and immigrant populations along with outdated housing and commercial building very different from newer places. How could metropolitan planning programs and policies, observed in Portland, OR and Minneapolis, MN, help improve the well-being of all communities in the Detroit metropolitan region?