Several big takeaways from a recent hearing in the city's lawsuit against RealT:
- Tenants risk eviction if they don't get on escrow accounts soon
- RealT has a $2M unpaid water bill
- The parties reached a settlement over a previously unreported lawsuit
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Michigan’s ability to finalize a budget — albeit two days after the constitutional deadline — puts Lansing slightly ahead of Washington in the competence rankings.
But we wanted to focus on how the budget affects some key programs that impact many Detroiters’ lives.
In 2020, the City of Detroit filed three high-profile lawsuits targeting some of Detroit’s most notorious slumlords and speculators.
Five years later, it dropped them with no settlements, no explanation and no public announcement.
🤔 So ... what changed?
Have seen all sorts of wild ways speculators cause harm in Detroit, but this one rly left me speechless -- buying 100s of properties without really knowing the city, anonymous investors, blight tickets, black mold and no maintenance, eviction notices -- and then you throw crypto into the mix.
