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Detroit residents press council on DDOT reliability, homelessness outreach, housing and BZA transparency during public comment
Summary
At a Detroit City Council meeting, callers urged faster DDOT service and higher pay to retain staff, described grassroots outreach to people experiencing homelessness, raised housing and landlord-retaliation concerns, and asked the council to investigate BZA court-reporter costs and Proposition N spending.
Several Detroit residents used the public-comment portion of the Detroit City Council meeting to press elected officials on transit service, outreach to people experiencing homelessness, housing conditions and transparency in the Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA).
Callers prioritized timing and staffing at the Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT). Coleman Cunningham, a longtime transit advocate who runs outreach from a vehicle, said DDOT “is not on time, and it needs to be.” Rochelle Stewart of the Detroit People’s Platform Transit Justice Team asked the council to “double do that,” criticized a 70% on-time target as insufficient and said the group was seeking $150,000,000 for DDOT to address service and wages.
Why it matters: callers linked transit reliability and worker pay to broader quality-of-life concerns — from riders’ daily…
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