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The development is aimed to make good on a federal judge’s ruling and welcome back displaced African-American families who filed a class-action lawsuit saying they were pushed out 37 years ago.
The city's housing fund has about $3.6 million earmarked to provide the subsidized housing for plaintiffs, said Albert Bogdan, a private consultant working with the city and plaintiffs in the decades-old lawsuit. More than $2.6 million from Wayne County and the federal government also will support the court order, he said.
The Grand Haven-Dyar homes are priced from $115,000 to $143,000.
About 60 of the homes are expected to be built in the next two years, with groundbreaking Dec. 5. Others will be built as needed, depending on how many families want to move back.
City Manager Donald Crawford said the housing development is Hamtramck's largest in more than 35 years. Hamtramck has more than 400 developable lots -- including parcels in Grand Haven-Dyar -- that haven't generated tax revenue for decades. Officials hope the development will spur others.
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