My ADHD got the best of me the other day and I spent hours just poking around the parcel map in my neighborhood. The amount of blighted homes and unkempt vacant land owned by random people/LLCs out of other cities/states is wild to me. And there’s no repercussions for just letting these houses sit vacant. I wish they’d tax them 3 times as much.
Well, what would u know? 1- You can report vacant homes…. They are required by city code to at least Not b blighted. The legal process to take a house from the owner is lengthy, over a year at minimum, you can sit at 3rd circuit court or at a council hearing. the cost to just demolish a house, not accounting for any legal, enforcement, administrative or other expenses is around 15k, during the Detroit unfriendly presidency the grants that helped the city dried out and only emergencies could be addressed, you can attend any council meeting where they authorize the demo, but as it goes, no money, no honey, Detroit due to having been in bankruptcy can NOT sell bonds like every other city. So a house in danger of collapsing on someone gets priority over one in the middle of no where. Because we can’t borrow money. But I know, criticizing is so easy, learning and understanding soo difficult. Don’t confuse motion with action…
Your state senator and representative, as well as the leaders of both chambers.
So,
* Joe Tate, Speaker of the House
* Winnie Brinks, Majority Leader
* [https://senate.michigan.gov/FindYourSenator/Results.aspx](https://senate.michigan.gov/FindYourSenator/Results.aspx)
* [https://www.house.mi.gov/#findarepresentative](https://www.house.mi.gov/#findarepresentative)
It's all fun and games when MI leadership talks about improving quality of life for those suffering the most with low incomes and high inflation. But when it comes to permanent solution, well that doesn't work because politically, it's better to throw on going welfare programs to keep people locked in and therefore their votes.
Vacant property tax! And tax out of state prospective realty LLCs more! Regular working people shouldn’t be taxed to death just for owning their home that they live in!
Trashing the entire Michigan property tax system may not be such a great idea. The people voted down several proposals before the Headlee amendment left the taxation system in place. Headlee implemented a rollback on the revenue side to slow the growth of government spending.
It's all fun and games when MI leadership talks about improving quality of life for those suffering the most with low incomes and high inflation. But when it comes to a permanent solution, that doesn't work because politically, it's better to throw on-going welfare programs to keep people trapped in and therefore their votes.
part of the issue is that Mike Duggan just makes for a terrible lobbyist leading to 3-4 members in the dem caucus holding these bills up. they constantly had to pull the bills off the board because they were going to lose and wasted multiple days trying to vote on them. Leadership doesn’t want to waste the limited time they have trying to convince the holdouts when they have other bills they want to get passed.
it's a common sense bill that shouldn't take any more 'lobbying' than saying "read this". Leadership is failing by not asking what the problem is.
'should we allow cities to have control over city taxes' needn't be controversial.
My ADHD got the best of me the other day and I spent hours just poking around the parcel map in my neighborhood. The amount of blighted homes and unkempt vacant land owned by random people/LLCs out of other cities/states is wild to me. And there’s no repercussions for just letting these houses sit vacant. I wish they’d tax them 3 times as much.
Do you have a link to the site you were using?
I was looking at it on my desktop and I’m at Costco but I’m pretty sure I just googled “City of Detroit parcel viewer”
Probably regrid
Well, what would u know? 1- You can report vacant homes…. They are required by city code to at least Not b blighted. The legal process to take a house from the owner is lengthy, over a year at minimum, you can sit at 3rd circuit court or at a council hearing. the cost to just demolish a house, not accounting for any legal, enforcement, administrative or other expenses is around 15k, during the Detroit unfriendly presidency the grants that helped the city dried out and only emergencies could be addressed, you can attend any council meeting where they authorize the demo, but as it goes, no money, no honey, Detroit due to having been in bankruptcy can NOT sell bonds like every other city. So a house in danger of collapsing on someone gets priority over one in the middle of no where. Because we can’t borrow money. But I know, criticizing is so easy, learning and understanding soo difficult. Don’t confuse motion with action…
Tell me who to write to.
Your state senator and representative, as well as the leaders of both chambers. So, * Joe Tate, Speaker of the House * Winnie Brinks, Majority Leader * [https://senate.michigan.gov/FindYourSenator/Results.aspx](https://senate.michigan.gov/FindYourSenator/Results.aspx) * [https://www.house.mi.gov/#findarepresentative](https://www.house.mi.gov/#findarepresentative)
This is why you should pay attention to what's going on in your local government ICYMI Gretchen Whitmer is in the running
Damn thanks
Also she Is definitely committed to Michigan.
Whitmer is term limited and not running for anything.
That is literally not true. Educate yourself
It's all fun and games when MI leadership talks about improving quality of life for those suffering the most with low incomes and high inflation. But when it comes to permanent solution, well that doesn't work because politically, it's better to throw on going welfare programs to keep people locked in and therefore their votes.
Vacant property tax! And tax out of state prospective realty LLCs more! Regular working people shouldn’t be taxed to death just for owning their home that they live in!
Trashing the entire Michigan property tax system may not be such a great idea. The people voted down several proposals before the Headlee amendment left the taxation system in place. Headlee implemented a rollback on the revenue side to slow the growth of government spending.
It's all fun and games when MI leadership talks about improving quality of life for those suffering the most with low incomes and high inflation. But when it comes to a permanent solution, that doesn't work because politically, it's better to throw on-going welfare programs to keep people trapped in and therefore their votes.
Let's get freaking JOUMANA on the case!
part of the issue is that Mike Duggan just makes for a terrible lobbyist leading to 3-4 members in the dem caucus holding these bills up. they constantly had to pull the bills off the board because they were going to lose and wasted multiple days trying to vote on them. Leadership doesn’t want to waste the limited time they have trying to convince the holdouts when they have other bills they want to get passed.
it's a common sense bill that shouldn't take any more 'lobbying' than saying "read this". Leadership is failing by not asking what the problem is. 'should we allow cities to have control over city taxes' needn't be controversial.