Diana Ross home for Sale. Aretha may be on List ...
https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2018/01/10/you-can-buy-diana-ross-childhood-home? this link has the current picture of the house- it looks spiffy... but is it worth the $$$ when there are still empty homes needing love in the same block???
For Example 624 Belmont is @ in the same block
Also in the 630 's on Belmont / also on the Detroit Land Bank List in the same block Next Door to the childhood home of Diana Ross - see below
The Detroit tiny homes project for homeless women re inventing themselves is here thanks to PBS.org
For Example 624 Belmont is @ in the same block
on Detroit Land Bank List
back taxes too
Also in the 630 's on Belmont / also on the Detroit Land Bank List in the same block Next Door to the childhood home of Diana Ross - see below 
Childhood home of Diana Ross as it looked in 2016
for sale 633 Belmont the childhood home of Diana Ross before the Brewster Projects
| Address | 633 BELMONT Diana Ross former home for Sale January 2018 as it looks Now...  |
| Parcel ID | 03002744. |
| Owner | JASH MICHIGAN 2 ,LLC COMPANY |
| Zoning Code | R3 |
| Zoning | Low Density Residential District |
| Taxable Status | CITY LAND BANK |
| State Equalized Value | 0.0 |
| Land Value | 529.0 |
| Taxable Value | 0.0 |
| Tax Status | OK |
| Last Sale Price | 0.0 |
| Year Built | 1913 |
| Total Acres | 0.086 |
| Frontage | 30.0 |
| Depth | 125.0 |
| Sq. Ft | 3746.0 |
| District | 5 |
| Zip | 48202 |
| Ward | 03 |
| Subdivision | MOORE, HODGES & WARRENS S |
| Legal Description | N BELMONT E 10 FT 91 W 20 FT 93 MOORE HODGES & WARRENS L14 P13 PLATS, W C R 3/119 30 X 125 |
To verify this information, please look up official details with the City of Detroit.
So what???
I wonder how to live next to something that needs to be restored or torn down.... I would prefer more tiny house projects developed for the formerly homeless and more avant garde approaches to using space once land is cleared. Detroit is not ranked high in healthy walkable neighborhoods. I do not know if its the design /crime/or car culture that makes this place diabetes central.But one thing I do know- Detroit could be the Number One 21st century city of the future. Not suburban, not urban, not inner, not outer but something for all . I call it NeoUrban. A new living arrangement of people , living in connected neighborhoods. Connected walkable, safe with light rail for distances over 2 miles. See this fantasy transportation map?
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| https://detroitography.com/2014/01/31/updated-detroit-metro-transit-fantasy-map/ |
Disclosure: I write a blog called diabeticslifeline.com I know that diabetes is managed by walking...
Also
My blogging is affected by the following --- I can dream of better things.
I was a kid growing up in a faux Cape Cod with a covered porch / Fixer Upper in Conant Gardens ...I used to look out my window over the city and imagine what it would look like with less houses, and winding lanes and lamps twinkling through the zillion trees. I saw the ravages of Dutch Elm disease, and left before the center fell @ 1985 for NYC. I am now back in Detroit with a unique perspective ...Isn't strange that I could see this city laid out differently years before it actually ended up with less houses?
So put in the twinkling lanes and zillion trees but add houses people can afford till death if need be...A thought : Once the mortgage is paid WHY can't we keep the taxes down? According to what I have been seeing since I left the very expensive East Coast and gentrified precincts of greater NYC ,
Detroiters pay way more than their houses are worth. I live in Oakland county and its also crazy here- we in Oakland are often paying more taxes than owners in Brooklyn Heights mansion owners who are blocks from the Riverfront with that crazy quintillion dollar view...
WHY SO MUCH $$$$ for Less in Mitten Land???????????
If the house is tiny /the taxes should be tiny -until your time is up!
if only they would Chant this in the streets....
-regenerate cities- go tiny /rise up Detroit/time to be shiny/lets go people/lets be lively
Disclosure: I have seen the marches in Buenos Aires circa 2003 -
3 points
This is what will it take to deliver some fairness to the 99%-
if only they would Chant this in the streets....
-regenerate cities- go tiny /rise up Detroit/time to be shiny/lets go people/lets be lively
Disclosure: I have seen the marches in Buenos Aires circa 2003 -
3 points
This is what will it take to deliver some fairness to the 99%-
- Try to sell so that Tiny houses paid in full (no mortgages ) and at the same time , homeowners of tiny houses billed yearly for taxes held to a rule of 15 % of the occupants future earnings(social security, etc) No Increases!!
- Use the 15% taxed of all homeowners of green/tiny houses for only 1 thing -the $$$ pays for school ... other taxes levied from other possible sources go to other structural needs of a city , and are subject to legislation
- Social Contract of the Neo-urban city: All house taxes Must support the Year Around school for anyone who wants to learn (Mandatory 1-12 grades) . Learning as facilitated by Free Internet will be made available for all future generations to be educated to a BS or BA level Just make it non negotiable and not something voters wrangle over : Millages are stupid.
The third coast is the trendsetter for the rest of the country, and Detroit is the neo-urban leader...
Why should Detroit go tiny since NYC is not going tiny ? East Coast Cities like NY are going up (not tiny...) NY is building above existing buildings like Bladerunner - using the air space . (Maybe has to do with the rising ocean...)
See the picture below??.
I lived right around the corner from this house in Brooklyn . The other boros: Staten Island, Queens, The Bronx& Brooklyn are not as overbuilt as Manhattan .The possibility of space sans demolition makes these areas open to experimental container green housing.
Puerto Rico take note ... Cheaper and Hurricane Proof Housing is available using your imagination and going tiny with railroad containers - cheaper than traditional materials (and can be installed quickly...before the next hurricane season......
See the picture below??.
I lived right around the corner from this house in Brooklyn . The other boros: Staten Island, Queens, The Bronx& Brooklyn are not as overbuilt as Manhattan .The possibility of space sans demolition makes these areas open to experimental container green housing.
Puerto Rico take note ... Cheaper and Hurricane Proof Housing is available using your imagination and going tiny with railroad containers - cheaper than traditional materials (and can be installed quickly...before the next hurricane season......
see the video below in Williamsburg Brooklyn
(I lived near here in 2011, and passed by it often...)
Tiny is the new black -See the video below:
Detroit does Tiny https://youtu.be/q2sLP0ZBbis
If tiny is the new black then Square feet is the new bitcoin - unpredictable income equals instability for fboth the 1% and the 99 %.
Why spotlight Diana and Aretha ?
Entertainers make $$$ until they do not -which is when the entertainment is no longer hot, and enters a nostalgic phase. That is when the downsizing should occur - 2 homes and a lot can be a bit much- no?
Aretha Franklin has this problem. Having a home in the NW section of Detroit in the 80s- (I delivered her Free Press - somebody still owes me $! @ 19346 Sorrento! ) was sensible .
Having a lot in Palmer Woods off the Golf course is also sensible.
Having a home in Bloomfield Hills is also sensible.
But not being able to maintain all three at the level of no worries would be the goal, especially as one gets older and works less. Something has to give. Guess what is teetering/ hovering above the swirling edge of the default drain? Guess where the property of the stars is that requires a Small infusion of liquid money in order to keep it off the Taxman/Auction list?? 18281 Hamilton Avenue- 1 house from 7 mile is just a cute lot Only .58 of an acre - the right size to put a tiny home cluster of 2 or 3 homes
and give some formerly homeless a chance to start anew ...not too far from the University District and the 8 mile border- Relatively safe- near the 12th precinct police station also. One less thing to worry about, and an opportunity to do good...
Aretha's Lot
| Parcel ID: | 02002730. |
| Zoning: | Single-Family Residential District |
| Owner: | FRANKLIN, ARETHA |
| Last Sale Price: | 0 |
| Frontage: | 0 |
| SEV: | 3800 |
| SqFeet: | 25106.000 |
| Acreage: | 0.576 |
| Ward: | 02 |
| Subdivision: | DETROIT GOLF CLUB (PG 99 |
| Legal Description: | W HAMILTON RD 11 DET GOLF CLUB SUB L30 P99-100 PLATS, W C R 2/135 100 IRREG |
To verify this information, please look up official details with the City of Detroit.
Aretha's Lot...... Could look like this Project called True North Near Wayne State University
in any case, the lot is around the corner from the
Frank Lloyd Wright home on 7 mile:
The Dorothy H. Turkel House is a private residence located at 2760 West 7 Mile Road in north-central Detroit, Michigan, within the Palmer Woods neighborhood. - wikipedia
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