The author is a retired educator and entrepreneur, and a former fast food restaurant franchisee. She is a 60-year resident of Detroit’s historic Boston-Edison neighborhood.
I ask my fellow City of Detroit residents to consider this riddle: Can the development of affordable housing ever be harmful? Multi-generational Detroit residents, understand that the answer to this question very well could be yes!
Developer Timeless Properties and its Owner, Adam Noel submitted a request to rezone 9851 Hamilton Street, a former community center, to create a 50-unit apartment complex. This development will be located on a street which adjoins Boston Boulevard in the Historic Boston-Edison District.
Without fanfare, but with a consistent disregard for local residents, Timeless Properties has focused on developments which result in the outright transfer of the generational wealth in property values accumulated over decades by long-term residents to its benefit…