Measure on the ballot in the 2020 Michigan General Election in Detroit.
View your personalized ballot, check your voter registration, make a plan to vote, and research every name and measure on the ballot with BallotReady.
Get StartedIf approved by voters, Proposal N would allow the City of Detroit to sell $250 million in Neighborhood Improvement Bonds. This plan would preserve and renovate 8,000 homes and remove another 8,000 blighted homes.
A "YES" vote on Proposal N would be a vote in favor of allowing the City of Detroit to sell $250 million in Neighborhood Improvement Bonds, which would be used to pay the costs of neighborhood rehabilitation, demolition, and other remediation activities.
A "NO" vote on Proposal N would be a vote in opposition to allowing the City of Detroit to sell $250 million in Neighborhood Improvement Bonds, which would be used to pay the costs of neighborhood rehabilitation, demolition, and other remediation activities.
"This investment will be a job and opportunity creator for the residents and businesses of Detroit. Unlike when we used federal funds in the past, there will be no restrictions on the explicit support and requirement that Detroiters and Detroit based minority-owned businesses be the direct beneficiaries of these funds. Indeed, the proposal calls for at least half of the money to go toward employing Detroit residents, or for contracts to businesses that call Detroit their home.", in support of Proposal N (Learn more)
"One in four homes in Detroit has been subject to property tax foreclosure. We haven’t seen this number in American history since the Great Depression. So any blight bond that doesn’t put compensation at its center; compensation for these illegal assessments and then they were foreclosed upon at historic rates [should be rejected].", in opposition to Proposal N (Learn more)
"Further decline of Black homeownership in Detroit causes loss of political power, loss of self-empowerment opportunity with our own tax dollars leaving our people at the mercy of those who do not value us. Vote No on Proposal N.", in opposition to Proposal N (Learn more)
"The people of the city have a choice; if you think the quality of the neighborhoods is fine and this is OK long term, then we don’t need to do this...If you believe, as I believe, that we’ve raised enough generations of children in this city going by these blighted houses and it’s time to say to every child: 'You deserve to live in a blight-free neighborhood,' I hope they’ll consider doing that.", in support of Proposal N (Learn more)
"Brian McKinney, CEO of demolition contractor Gayanga, said Detroiters should approve the bond proposal because it will create jobs in the neighborhoods. He said every demolition involves 14 people, and that nine of those jobs do not require high-level skills. 'This opportunity to do this work ensures that no matter how this pandemic affects the economy, there is work,' he said.", in support of Proposal N (Learn more)
"Some see a range of potentially problematic issues — the city’s history of financial struggles, the scandal-tainted demolition program and the possibility that the pandemic will sharply constrain city revenues.", in opposition to Proposal N (Learn more)
Shall the City of Detroit issue bonds in an amount of not more than $250,000,000 for the purpose of paying the cost of neighborhood improvements in the City through property rehabilitation, demolition and other blight remediation activities? The bonds will be payable from taxes the City is allowed to levy in addition to state statutory and City Charter limits. The total debt millage required to retire this proposed bond issue and all voted bonds of the City is estimated to remain at or below the debt millage levied by the City in 2020. If approved, the estimated millage to be levied in 2021 for the proposed bonds is 3.114 mills ($3.114 per $1,000 of taxable value) and the estimated simple average annual millage rate required to retire the proposed bonds is 2.665 mills ($2.665 per $1,000 of taxable value). Each series of the bonds shall be payable in not more than 30 years from its date of issuance.
View your personalized ballot, check your voter registration, make a plan to vote, and research every name and measure on the ballot with BallotReady.