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Detroit reflects on Mike Duggan's tenure as his final days in the mayoral office near
Duggan led Detroit through bankruptcy recovery, demolishing over 24,000 vacant buildings and achieving more than a decade of balanced budgets, with modest population growth by 2024.
- In January, outgoing Mayor Mike Duggan will step down after three terms, and City Council President Mary Sheffield was elected this month to succeed him.
- After a state takeover and emergency management, Detroit, Michigan faced more than 40,000 vacant houses and later exited bankruptcy after wiping away $7 billion in long-term debt.
- Using mostly federal funds, the administration demolished more than 24,000 blighted structures while private renovation crews renovated thousands of houses, and fiscal measures produced over a decade of balanced budgets despite city employees facing reduced hours and pay cuts.
- Despite modest population gains, a census estimate placed Detroit's population at 645,705 in 2024, up about 12,000 since 2021, while more than a third of Detroit residents still live in poverty.
- Experts caution it will take decades to recover as critics of downtown-focused investment say most money targets downtown while Detroit neighborhoods lag, said Jeff Horner and Rev. Solomon Kinloch.
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Detroit reflects on Mike Duggan's tenure as his final days in the mayoral office near
Mike Duggan is stepping down as Detroit mayor at the end of the year after three terms in office. And the city he will leave behind is in better shape than the one he inherited in January 2014.
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