Next Five: 2025-2030 Strategic Plan
Building a Stronger Detroit Together
A strategic plan is a critical tool to set organizational direction and priorities, drive alignment, simplify decision making, communicate to partners and stakeholders.
Next Five Strategic Plan
Ten Years of Impact
Why Next Five
Since its founding in 2008, the DLBA has evolved to meet the challenges posed by vacant and abandoned properties in Detroit. The DLBA's role expanded significantly in 2014 when most of Detroit's publicly owned residential property was consolidated into the DLBA's inventory. Ten years later, we are at another pivotal point.
Our Process
Research & Analysis
In conducting our research and analysis, we grounded our approach in both internal data and external benchmarking. We leveraged operational insights, program performance metrics, and inventory data to assess DLBA's current capacity, while looking outward to peer land banks for tested strategies and innovative practices.
Community & Engagement
In gathering community input we focused on broad, meaningful input and collaborating with residents and resident-serving institutions.
For more details on our community engagement process see Appendix C: Planning Process Community Engagement Summaries.
Final Plan
During this phase, we collaborated closely with staff, the Advisory Panel, and other partners to refine the draft plan. Building on the insights from research and analysis, and the community priorities identified through engagement, we drafted the Strategic Plan that will guide DLBA's efforts moving forward.
Community Engagement
Public Surveys
740 Respondents
Winter & Spring 2024
Working Sessions
3 Sessions
50 Total Experts
Urban Agriculture & Revitalization
Focus Groups
12 Discussions
2 Focus Rounds
Interviews
25 Interviews
City Staff, Board Members, and Community Partners, current land bank leaders
C&E Events
10 Events
Department of Neighborhood Resource Units Meetings / DLBA Events
Advisory Panel
14 Members
Advisory Panel developed a framework to guide development expertise, Other Land Bank Leaders
Next Five Structure
Next Five's five strategic themes:
- 1. Neighborhood Stabilization
- 2. Asset & Community Collaboration
- 3. Community & Resident Operations
- 4. Performance & Accountability
Within each theme there are goals.
Together, these make up our 'commitment level.'
- 1. Create a strategic replication of residential asset types.
- 2. Deepen quality, affordable housing options.
- 3. Streamline land use and disposition.
- 4. Increase asset investment and development opportunities.
- 5. Provide excellent service and clear information to our community.
- 6. Define and build meaningful shared partnerships with neighborhood and community organizations.
- 7. Improve and sustain efforts to educate about the land sales process.
- 8. Advance organizational capacity and preservation of institutional knowledge and existing partnerships.
- 9. Diversify programming and financing in programming and people leadership opportunities.
- 10. Foster social innovation building along strategic partnership and people-leadership connections opportunities.
Within each goal there are activities and actions.
Together, these make up our 'individual level of action.'
For more information about the activities and actions see full plan.
Each activity has a priority level ranging from important to essential.
Each activity is given an approximate timeframe to get to complete.
Together, these will be described across the five-year timespan.
Each activity has accompanying metrics or being developed, and DLBA will deliver on many of the many activities being completed to measure progress metric both activities and performance through program goals, organizational development, and community engagement activities:
- 1. 80% of all relevant parties have available for one strategic DLBA engagement by 2025.
- 2. 80% of housing units being occupied as live over three years happen as a DLBA property.
- 3. 50% of DLBA-owned properties achieve a competitive and economic strategy in 2026.
- 4. 90% annual increase in the number of commercial and economic development projects the DLBA advances each year.
- 5. Increase each year the number of strategic partnerships.
- 6. 100% of organizational activity aligns over new fiscal Year.
- 7. Ensure first monitoring competitive address all implementation metrics.
- 8. 1% of loss the monitoring program address the implementation metrics.
- 9. The annual growth of secondary national income that grows, Basic Service, and promotes food and housing assistance work.
- 10. The annual and investment work is effective and affirming in the role.
Advisory Panel Members
Alexa Bush
The Kresge Foundation
Chase Cantrell
Building Community Value
Margi Dewar
University of Michigan
Michael Freeman
Genesee County Land Bank Authority
Karen Gage
City of Detroit, Planning & Development Department
Erinn Harris
Department of Neighborhoods
Sarah Hayosh
Detroit Future City
Keegan Mahoney
City of Detroit, Housing & Revitalization Department
Dara O'Byrne
City of Detroit, Planning & Development Department
Madhavi Reddy
Community Development Advocates of Detroit
Tepfirah (Tee) Rushdan
Office of Sustainability, City of Detroit
Sarida Scott
University of Detroit Mercy
Jai Singletary
Office of Council President Pro Tempore
Mike Smith
Invest Detroit