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Committee sends Waters’ foreclosure moratorium resolution to formal session without recommendation
Summary
The Budget, Finance and Audit Standing Committee voted to send Council member Mary Waters’ resolution asking the Wayne County Treasury to extend a one‑year moratorium on owner‑occupied foreclosures to a formal council session without recommendation; public commenters urged immediate action and criticized the Detroit Land Bank.
The Detroit City Council Budget, Finance and Audit Standing Committee voted to send Council member Mary Waters’ resolution requesting that the Wayne County Treasury extend a one‑year moratorium on owner‑occupied foreclosures to a formal council session without recommendation.
The measure was moved out of committee by voice vote with no recorded objections. The committee chair said a motion would be made to transmit the item to formal session and members agreed to send it forward without recommendation.
The resolution was the subject of public comment before committee business. One caller urged the committee to “do that as soon as possible, if not yesterday” and said a moratorium would “stop the bleeding” and prevent more residents from becoming homeless. That caller also criticized the Detroit Land Bank Authority and the Public Lighting Authority, saying the land bank should pay for upkeep of properties in its portfolio and that ownership of land bank homes needs clarification.
Another caller, William M. Davis, said he agreed with the previous speaker and urged the city to hold absentee landlords accountable, pursue unpaid taxes, and make the city “more friendly to the city residents.” Davis also said the land bank should be more accountable and that the public lighting authority should be dissolved.
Committee members did not take a roll‑call vote on the resolution in committee. The chair noted that if council wished to act on the resolution before the council’s budget deadline it would likely require a special session to take up the item prior to Monday’s scheduled vote on the budget.
The committee’s action transmits the resolution to a formal session for full council consideration; no recommendation for approval or denial was recorded in committee.
The public comment and the committee transmission conclude the committee’s recorded handling of the resolution; any formal adoption, amendment, or referral will be set by the full council at formal session.
