1. No Property Left Behind

2. What’s On Deck For Tonight:
• “It’s A Wonderful Day In The Neighborhood, So I Made A Map Of It: The Loveland Story”
• Context, and a Brief History of Recent Foreclosure Auctions
• Recapping the 2012 Foreclosure Auction
• Looking Ahead to the 2013 Auction
• Simplifying the Unsimplifiable: Foreclosure Prevention
• The Properties Left Behind
• Big and Small Ideas to Make Things Better
• How A House Is Like A Cow - From Erin Kelly

3. Name:
Email:
City / Neighborhood / Zip:

4. INCHVESTING SITECONTROL
“Based in Detroit,
LOVELAND Technologies
develops crowdfunding
and social mapping
TALK TO THE STATION WHY DON’T WE OWN THIS?
systems, with a unique
creative culture and brand
that mixes virtual and real,
fun and serious, story and
software. We like some
Disney with our Google.
Expect surprises.”

6. The Auction & Why Don’t We Own This?
2013 Properties @ Risk
2009 - 2013*
2012 Auction
2011 Auction
2009 Live Auction
Source: From Revenue to Reuse: Managing Tax-Reverted
Properties in Detroit, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban
Planning, via Wayne County Website
*But not 2010 b/c I couldn’t find
any photos of the map from that year

7. Recap: The 2012 Wayne County Tax Foreclosure Auction

8. Big Buyers: Benjamin Brothers
Total Cost: $592,810

9. Big Buyers: BelieveInTheD
Total Cost: $2,033,050

10. Cluster of Purchases by BelieveInTheD:

11. United Community Housing Coalition’s Purchases:

12. Auction Roulette
2997 Virginia Park 3268 Virginia Park

13. Stories from the Auction:

14. BRACE YOURSELVES
THE 2013 FORECLOSURE
AUCTION IS COMING

15. Foreclosure Notice Newspaper “Insert”

16. 42,426 Detroit Properties at Risk of Foreclosure
and Inclusion in the 2013 Foreclosure Auction

17. In Development -
Why Don’t We Own This?
Foreclosure Prevention Page:
• Help owners understand the
implications of foreclosure
• Walk owners through their options
• Pay taxes online
• Create a payment plan
• Contact the County for more information
• Contact the United Community Housing
Coalition
• Show when taxes are resolved
• Space for advice and conversation
on each property page, feeding into
larger forum

19. In Development -
Why Don’t We Own This?
Foreclosure Prevention Page:
• Help owners understand the
implications of foreclosure
• Walk owners through their options
• Pay taxes online
• Create a payment plan
• Contact the County for more information
• Contact the United Community Housing
Coalition
• Show when taxes are resolved
• Space for advice and conversation
on each property page, feeding into
larger forum

20. 8,686 Properties Left Behind from 2012 Auction

22. Ideas, Big and Small
Equipping
Detroiters with X- Real-time Social Networking
Merge With City & Crowdfund Crowdfund
Ray Glasses: Information via of Property
County Systems Properties Demolition
SiteControl + Crowdsourcing Owners
WDWOT
Identify the state
Communicate Pursue Focus resources
of properties, Clarify processes,
See the city quickly and easily. revolutionary on ways to
inform people of cooperate in
around you in Help your ways to share eliminate blight
foreclosures, solving problems,
new ways. neighbors and ownership in your while reducing
focus resources share information.
coordinate action. neighborhood. waste.
and energy.