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.

 
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Next Five Strategic Plan

 

Ten Years of Impact

Community gardens in former vacant lots
+27,800
vacant lots returned to gardeners
Bringing investment back to the neighborhoods
Cleared vacant structures
+27,468
vacant structures cleared
Opening doors to safer, livable neighborhoods
Restored and rehabbed homes
+11,864
homes rehabbed & restored
Giving families a fresh start
Families with their new homes
+19,400
properties sold, 75% to Detroit residents
Keeping homeownership local
Improved community spaces and parks
+600
community projects completed
Parks, gardens and public spaces improved
 

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

01

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.

02

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.

03

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.

Activities are: Important are Activities we can directly accomplish by other activities or getting their basic responsibilities within the three year timeframe.
Activities are: Necessary are Activities or those we plan to start within what constitute basic (in their timeframe) infrastructure.
Activities are: Significant are Activities we place after and which also have strategic value.
Activities are: Essential are Activities critical to organizational vitality including vital plans daily.

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

 

Special Thanks

TSI CONSULTING GROUP