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Michigan Cities Resilient During State's Transformation
National League of Cities
April 30, 2012
Several states and thousands of cities face the multiple and
overlapping challenges of economic transformation, population
out-migration, housing price devaluation, mortgage foreclosures and tax
base erosion. Michigan is among those states hit hardest by all of these
forces. Nonetheless, local government leaders are demonstrating
resilience and working to shape the emerging transformations that will
put their cities on the path to long-term sustainable growth and
prosperity.
As part of an ongoing series of reports on
resilient cities, the National League of Cities’ Center for Research
& Innovation presents Resilient Cities in a Transforming State: A Snapshot of Local Action in Michigan.
The study identifies the ways in which local leaders respond to
economic collapse and home mortgage foreclosures by shifting
organizational routines, collaborating across sectors and levels,
identifying and redirecting resources and leveraging new resources from
public and private sources. Insights into city leaders’ actions were
gathered during a Leadership Forum on Neighborhoods and Local Economies,
which brought together federal, state and local decision makers in
Lansing, Mich., to define place-making and create a framework to support
economic growth and prosperity statewide.
