Detroit is running out of abandoned homes.

Over the past decade, thousands of abandoned homes have been salvaged and rehabilitated, providing Detroiters access to affordable housing options. While the declining number of abandoned homes may sound like good news — and it mostly is — it presents an unfamiliar problem: there’s simply not enough housing. To meet current and future housing needs, Detroit must create thousands of new units each year. We can no longer rely on rehabilitation alone to expand the city’s housing supply and support housing affordability.

As Detroiters start voting (absentee ballots went out on Sept. 25, and early in-person voting begins Oct. 25), they will select the leadership that will guide our city through its next chapter — and Detroit’s next mayor will face a

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