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In carrying out its goals, the Coalition has organized a class action lawsuit to address constitutional violations resulting from the City of Detroit’s failure to give homeowners proper notice of their tax assessments.
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Academic Resources
Predatory Cities,108 California Law Review 107 (2020).
California Law Review | Bernadette Atuahene | Feb. 2020
Congressional Testimony of Professor Bernadette Atuahene
Michigan House of Representatives | Bernadette Atuahene | August 2019
Alexa Eisenberg & Roshanak Mehdipanah (UM School of Public Health), Ted Phillips and Michele Oberholtzer (United Community Housing Coalition) | December 2018
Taxed Out: Illegal property tax assessments and the epidemic of tax foreclosures in Detroit
Chicago-Kent College of Law | Bernadette Atuahene | June 2018
Northwestern University | Bernadette Atuahene | June 2018
Chicago-Kent College of Law | Bernadette Atuahene, Timothy Hodge | Jan. 2018
Disinvesting in the City: The Role of Tax Foreclosure in Detroit
Urban Affairs Review 2015, Vol. 51(5) 587–615 | Margaret Dewar1, Eric Seymour, and Oana Druta
Assessment Inequity in a Declining Housing Market: The Case of Detroit
Timothy R. Hodge, Mark Skidmore, Gary Sands, Daniel McMillen | Sep. 2013
Media Coverage
How Unfair Property Taxes Keep Black Families From Gaining Wealth
Bloomberg News | Jason Grotto | March 2021
Detroit's Lowest-Valued Homes Continue To Be Over-Assessed, Advocates Say
WDET | Eli Newman | March 2021
Economists back study that found Detroit is still inflating property taxes
The Detroit News | Christine Ferretti | March 2021
Anti-foreclosure activists demand more help in Detroit
Michigan Advance | Ken Coleman | Jan. 2021
ACLU, Tlaib Call for Foreclosure Ban to Continue in Detroit
WDET | Eli Newman | Oct. 2020
‘Black Homes Matter’: Detroit advocates speak out on foreclosures, assessments
Bridge Detroit | Olivia Lewis | Aug. 2020
Detroit Leaders Putting an End to Unjust Property Tax Forecloses
Detroit Is It | John Bozick | July 2020
Activists propose Detroit fund for overtaxed homeowners
The Detroit News | Christine MacDonald | July 2020
High court: Michigan counties cannot make profit on tax-foreclosed homes
The Detroit News | Beth LeBlanc | July 2020
The Scandal of the Predatory City
The New York Times | Bernadette Atuahene | June 2020
Detroit housing shortage, evictions set stage for COVID-19 housing crisis
Michigan News | Jeff Karoub and Lauren Slagter | May 2020
Detroit faces reckoning, lawsuit from over-taxed homeowners
Michigan Radio | Sarah Cwiek | Feb. 2020
Detroit homeowners overtaxed $600 million
The Detroit News | Christine MacDonald | Jan. 2020
Effort to stave off Detroit foreclosures leaves many deeper in debt
The Detroit News | Christine MacDonald | Dec. 2019
New program would clear property tax debt for poorest Detroit homeowners
Michigan Radio | Sarah Cwiek | Aug. 2019
Why more demolitions won't stop Detroit's blight
Detroit Metro Times | Maryam Jayyousi | June 2019
FBI scrutinizes Sabree property dealings; family underpaid taxes
The Detroit News | Christine MacDonald and Robert Snell | March 2019
Detroit property tax relief plan gets new life
The Detroit News | Christine MacDonald | Oct. 2018
Foreclosed for the cost of an iPhone. That’s life in Wayne County.
Michigan Radio | Sarah Alvarez, Bridge Magazine & Detroit Journalism Cooperative | May 2018
Detroit’s housing crisis is the work of its own government
Vice | Mark Betancourt | Dec. 2017
Wealthy San Francisco residents to get private street back, despite skipping taxes for decades
The Washington Post | Avi Selk | Nov. 2017
Study: High assessments might have contributed to Detroit's foreclosure crisis
The Washington Post | Amy Dobson | Oct. 2017
Don't Let Detroit's Revival Rest on an Injustice
New York Times | Bernadette Atuahene | July 2017
Study finds Detroit's foreclosure crisis fueled by illegal tax assessments
Detroit Metro Times | Violet Ikonomova | July 2017
Law prof. says 85% of Detroit homes taxed illegally, contributing to massive foreclosure rates
Michigan Radio | STATESIDE STAFF | July 2017
Scenes From the Foreclosure Crisis: Water, Land and Housing in Michigan
truthout | Anne Elizabeth Moore & Melissa Mendes | July 2017
Detroit's homeowners deserve better
The Detroit News | Bernadette Atuahene | Jan. 2017
Detroit's tax foreclosures indefensible
Detroit Free Press | Bernadette Atuahene | Sep. 2016