I stumbled across this 1995 HUD plan from when the Planning and Development Department was still on the 23rd floor of Cadillac Tower. I can’t figure out why the Detroit Receiving Hospital is not called out as a point of interest, but enjoy seeing many of the community hospitals marked.

From the report:

The City of Detroit’s Consolidated Plan includes a one-year Action Plan for the expenditure of $56,584,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds, $ 14,105,000 in HOME funds, $2,163,000 in Emergency Shelter Grant funds and $1,207,000 in HOPWA funds.

Anti-Poverty Strategy

Detroit has a poverty rate of over 32 percent. It’s unemployment rate, expected to be 11.6 percent in 1995, is nearly double the state and national rates. As a means of reducing and preventing poverty, the City assigns highest priority to attaining full employment for its residents, with special attention given to those with low skills and other special needs. All major development is assessed for maximum potential for temporary and permanent job retention and creation. The City’s community and economic development activities all have the goal of improving the availability of employment and/or access to employment. The City will continue to follow this policy as the major means of combatting poverty. It is realized that training and re-training in many cases are the primary means for equipping persons out of work with the skills to take jobs which become available in the current and future work place.