Here’s a story about Black Bottom LLC, in Detroit. If you don’t know this history, it is something that you ought to know. If you don’t know this group, then they are some folks you ought to check out.

Shared Article from NPR.org

Who Fixes Detroit? Young Black Detroiters Want To Resurrect A Lo…

Black Bottom was once a vibrant black oasis in Detroit, till it was demolished for a freeway. Now, young black visionaries in Detroit are experimentin…

npr.org (via Lester Spence)

Also.

• GT 2011-04-28: Subsidized Order
• GT 2011-01-25: Housing and Urban Development
• GT 2007-11-16: Urban homesteading
• GT 2006-06-14: Enclosure comes to Los Angeles
• John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press (15 Dec 2013): When Detroit paved over paradise

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