Presented By: Semester in Detroit
Detroiters Speak - Fighting for Water and Homes
Monica Lewis-Patrick, Mark Fancher, Marilyn Mullane
In the first of three sessions to focus on current issues Detroit is facing, Monica Lewis-Patrick (water warrior and President and CEO, We the People of Detroit), Mark Fancher (Director of the Racial Justice Project at the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan) and Marilyn Mullane (Executive Director, Michigan Legal Services) will address two related crises affecting Detroit residents: mass water-shut offs and mass tax foreclosures. The session will be facilitated by eliza pérez-ollin and Peter Hammer, of WSU's Detroit Equity Action Laboratory.
The impacts of these newly heightened practices will be explored, with a special focus on the mass displacement of long-time African-American residents, the rapid deterioration of neighborhoods, and the threat to a stable regional water system that supplies water to a significant percentage of the state’s residents. Proposed solutions will include those that already exist but have not been implemented, such as the water affordability plan and tax relief policies, as well as other frameworks that could promote equitable access to water and home ownership for Detroit’s residents.
Free bus transportation from Ann Arbor to Detroit via the MDetroit Connector Bus will be provided for this class. The Bus (Indian Trails) will depart the Central Campus Transit Center at 5:40pm, and stop directly outside of the Cass Corridor Commons right around 7pm. At the end of the class (no later than 9pm), the Bus will depart the Cass Commons Corridor and return to the Central Campus Transit Center by no later than 10pm.
Wifi is available on the bus.
The impacts of these newly heightened practices will be explored, with a special focus on the mass displacement of long-time African-American residents, the rapid deterioration of neighborhoods, and the threat to a stable regional water system that supplies water to a significant percentage of the state’s residents. Proposed solutions will include those that already exist but have not been implemented, such as the water affordability plan and tax relief policies, as well as other frameworks that could promote equitable access to water and home ownership for Detroit’s residents.
Free bus transportation from Ann Arbor to Detroit via the MDetroit Connector Bus will be provided for this class. The Bus (Indian Trails) will depart the Central Campus Transit Center at 5:40pm, and stop directly outside of the Cass Corridor Commons right around 7pm. At the end of the class (no later than 9pm), the Bus will depart the Cass Commons Corridor and return to the Central Campus Transit Center by no later than 10pm.
Wifi is available on the bus.
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