Detroit and Wayne County officials encouraged struggling homeowners to apply for property tax relief.

Following a series of studies that showed inequities in Chicago-area property tax assessments, a UChicago scholar in a new study estimates that 10 percent of all foreclosures in Detroit were caused by ...

Bernadette Atuahene is a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School. This week was the 11th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Over the years, many have said that Detroit is ...

The program known as Pay As You Stay, or PAYS, eliminates penalties, interest, and fees of low-income homeowners who have ...

Detroit — Wayne County and Detroit officials on Tuesday announced tax foreclosures in the city have fallen 88 percent in the last two years. Officials said there were 768 tax foreclosures of ...

Tax foreclosures of owner-occupied homes in Detroit have dropped 89 percent since 2015, officials announced Friday, continuing a downward trend across the city. Preliminary numbers released by the ...

DETROIT — For the first time in half a century, renters now outnumber homeowners in Detroit. The surge in downtown and Midtown apartment living is just a tiny part of the reason for the shift. By far ...

DETROIT -- Tax foreclosures of owner-occupied homes in Detroit have been reduced by 88 percent over the past two years, Wayne County and Detroit officials announced Tuesday morning. There were 786 tax ...

Within Detroit's city limits, foreclosed homes are starting to sell. That's the good news. The bad: Foreclosures are spreading into Detroit's suburbs because of layoffs and a surge in some mortgage ...

Nearly one in four Detroit homeowners owes more in delinquent property taxes than they did three years ago despite being a part of a county program designed to help them get out of debt and avoid ...

The city of Detroit is seeing major improvement in tax foreclosures of owner-occupied homes over the last couple of years. According to the city, tax foreclosures dropped to their lowest levels this ...

Joseph Bates, 48, stands in front of the Southwest Detroit home his great-great-grandparents bought in 1907. The home had been in his family until it was foreclosed due to unpaid tax bills. Credit: ...