Mayor Duggan was at the Detroit Police Department headquarters giving his final residential blight removal report, stating that when he started his term 12 years ago, Detroit had 47,000 abandoned Land ...

Baltimore is betting big on a new strategy to tackle vacant homes. We find out why city leaders think the stars are finally aligned for success.

A targeted blight elimination project in Flint has been terminated by the nonprofit organization that acted as its fiduciary, leaving unanswered questions about the details of what went wrong. The ...

The past decades have not been kind to all of America's cities, with some seeing huge population drops. Here are five that ...

Mayor-elect Helena Moreno, City Council President JP Morrell, District Attorney Jason Williams and GNO Inc. Michael Hecht ...

The fate of so many of our region's high-rises remains uncertain, but there is still belief that they have a place in our ...

One of the lowest-cost housing options in cities once came from faith-based organizations. That has all but disappeared.

This holiday week, as is our recent tradition, the Tribune Editorial Board is looking back at the year through editorials ...

WITH its smashed windows, crumbling walls and graffiti, the creepy derelict building looks like the set of a horror movie.

A young, idealistic mayor is tackling one of Baltimore's more recalcitrant problems: thousands of vacant and abandoned properties.