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Housing supply: Lessons from the USA and Canada Chair: Andy Staniford, FCIH, CIHSE Regional Housing Board Member & chair of the International Sub Group, housing strategy manager, Brighton & Hove Council
Jerry Paffendorf, chief executive, LOVELAND Technologies
Chris Moquet, FCIH, innovation & business development co-ordinator, CIHSE International Housing Group
What’s The Deal With Detroit?
A Primer On Broad Property Problems &
Solutions
by Jerry Paffendorf, LOVELAND Technologies
for the 2016 CIH South East Conference, Brighton
1. Background on Working with Parcel Data
2. Population Changes in Detroit
(and a little Windsor, Ontario, Canada)
3. Some Resulting Property Challenges
4. Some Promising Responses
5. Applications Elsewhere?
In This Talk…
The LOVELAND Thesis: Planet Earth is made of parcels!
In Detroit, We Did A Citywide Property Survey Visiting Every Parcel…
sitecontrol.us
…To Collect New Data on Vacancy & Blight…
motorcitymapping.org
& Put It To Work In Improving The City
motorcitymapping.org
Now We’re Building an Open National Cadastre of Property
Information
Bookmark this thought…
Detroit & Windsor Metro from space (NASA)
Detroit
Windsor
Very Different Cities in Size & Scale
Detroit
Windsor
Detroit’s Peak Population in 1950: nearly 2 million
83% white & 16% black
Detroit’s Current Population: 700,000 83% black & 11% white
•••
Windsor’s Population in 1950: 120,000
Windsor’s Current Population is its highest: 210,000
77% white & 4% black
Population Comparison
Detroit: A Legendary Boom-Bust Town
Dramatic Racial Changes
Growth of the Detroit Suburbs
A Simple Truth Underlying All Else in Detroit
When people abandon a city, they take their
money, but they leave their architecture and
their landscape and their infrastructure.
This causes problems over time.
Blight: Between 50 & 60,000 vacant homes & buildings
timetoendblight.com
goobingdetroit.tumblr.com
makeloveland.com/reports/fire
A look at 7,740 demolitions since January 2014
mapped from detroitmi.gov/demolition
makeloveland.com/reports/fire
Fire: Nearly 3,000 structure damaging fires in 2015
makeloveland.com/reports/fire
Fire: Nearly 3,000 structure damaging fires in 2015
Strained Public Services: 200 public schools have closed since
2000
detroitschoolsreport.com
Strained Public Services: 200 public schools have closed since
2000
detroitschoolsreport.com
Tax Foreclosure: 140,000 Tax Foreclosures Since 2002
From “A Hurricane Without Water” on YouTube & 70000yellowbags.com
33,000 Occupied Homes Noticed for Tax Foreclosure *This Year*
From detroit.makeloveland.com See more reports at
makeloveland.com/reports
Nature hates a vacuum…
Against this backdrop of extreme property challenges, a mix of interesting, promising, amazing, and sometimes strange things are
happening to address them.
Some key examples…
Nature hates a vacuum…
A City Emerging From Bankruptcy
Now that the city has shed much of its longterm debt, it is doing everything it can to adequately provide the services it couldn’t for so long: buses, street lights,
police, fire, trash, etc., as well as creating new programs to help facilitate necessary things like loans
for home ownership and repair. There is increasing belief that the fundamentals are coming back into
place.
Nature hates a vacuum…
Dan Gilbert and his Family of Companies
A very active and very present multi-billionaire is
buying every skyscraper he can, trying to make a
thriving, fully activated Downtown that attracts people
and businesses, and spreads outwards.
Nature hates a vacuum…
The Detroit Land Bank Authority
The land bank owns approximately 100,000 properties throughout all Detroit’s neighborhoods,
making it perhaps the most central organization in the redevelopment of the city’s landscape. Because of its
reach, it touches and underlies everything.
Note: land banks have never been used at this scale. *gulp*
Nature hates a vacuum…
Foundation, Bank, and Federal Support
Powerful financial and policy interests are
returning to the city, dropping billions of dollars,
twisting dials, and pulling levers, experimenting
with how to fill in public welfare gaps.
Nature hates a vacuum…
Entrepreneurship and Business Creation
Detroit is going through a boom of people starting
businesses. A lot of money, support, and media is
going into helping people start or grow their business.
This was less true 5 years ago, and you can really
feel the difference.
Nature hates a vacuum…
A Million Community Solutions
The people of Detroit are the ones who have navigated
these challenges with their own solutions and styles, and
with their own desires for what happens next. As people
and money come to the city, there are constant
conversations about inclusion in progress, and investment
downtown versus in the neighborhoods.
Whether or not new solutions work with and come from
Detroit’s existing community may be the most important
factor in their success. Which is obvious when you think
about it, but clearly not always obvious in practice.
Nature loves parcels…
LOVELAND’s Parcel Data Work
We’ve learned that you can’t understand the landscape,
make informed decisions, and track results without great
property data systems that go down to the parcel level.
We’re proud to be based in Detroit and founded on
Detroit’s unique challenges, and we’re looking forward to
working with other communities in other countries to map
other property realities, opportunities, and challenges.
Please don’t be a stranger if we can be helpful to you.
Jerry Paffendorf CEO, LOVELAND Technologies
makeloveland.com sitecontrol.us
motorcitymapping.org
@makeloveland facebook.com/makeloveland
❤
Thank you!
