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Residents press council to increase housing trust fund, change AMI and restore home-repair support
Summary
Multiple public commenters asked Detroit City Council to raise the Housing Trust Fund to the $10 million level requested by advocates, to pursue an area-specific AMI, and to invest in home repair and foreclosure recovery.
Detroit residents urged City Council during public comment to substantially increase the Housing Trust Fund allocation, push for a city-specific Area Median Income (AMI) and prioritize home-repair and foreclosure recovery efforts.
A public commenter speaking without a name in the transcript said the budget update included another $1,000,000 for the Housing Trust Fund, bringing the proposed total to $2,000,000, and noted the fund had requested $10,000,000 under an inclusionary ordinance passed a few years earlier. "That is a good improvement, but I do not think it gets us all the way there," the commenter said, adding the Office of Disability…
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