A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the Ann Arbor Greenbelt and its apparent impact on Washtenaw County. About a decade ago, the Office…
Posts published in “Economic development”
Anyone who lives in Michigan knows that the economy here is highly sensitive to change. Michigan often leads the nation into a recession and holds…
Washtenaw County is becoming increasingly divided with pockets of extreme wealth offset by pockets of extreme poverty. I attended today’s Ypsilanti Township Board of Trustees…
What accounts for the poverty rates among adults with some college or an associate degree in eastern Washtenaw County, and in our cities? There’s no…
I’ve written about the loss of taxable value in the City of Ypsilanti and Ypsilanti Township. Combined, these two areas provide 10% of the tax…
For the last week or so, I have been writing about the housing situation in Washtenaw County, and how factors like the Ann Arbor Greenbelt…
The czb Report, which I wrote about yesterday, made some interesting points in 2014 about where the authors thought the Washtenaw County housing market was…
Over the past several days, I have looked at the cities and townships in Washtenaw County in terms of the impact of Ann Arbor’s decision…
Population growth with a greenbelt is often seen but isn’t guaranteed. In 2023, the Census Bureau estimated the Washtenaw County population at 365,536, which is…
Yesterday, I looked at the impact of Ann Arbor’s Greenbelt on housing costs in the city. But what has happened to the rest of Washtenaw…