DLBA, Board of Directors
Detroit Land Bank Authority1301 Third Ave. Detroit 48226 (Directions)
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Reporting
Edited and summarized by the Detroit - MI Documenters Team
The board approved a few purchase agreements and the budgets for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.
Good Morning. Today at 10 a.m. EST I will be live-tweeting today’s Detroit Land Bank Authority (DLBA) board of directors meeting on behalf of the @detdocumenters.bsky.social. Follow me at @detroitjcs.bsky.social for more public meetings coverage.
08:03 AM Jun 24, 2025 CDT
ℹ️FYI: The mission of the Detroit Land Bank Authority is to return the city’s blighted and vacant properties to productive use. The board has five (5) directors.
The five (5) DLBA board members are as follows:
• Erica Ward Gerson, Chair
• Richard Hosey, Vice Chair - Finance Committee
• Carol Walters, Treasurer - Finance Committee
• Patricia Pernell-Shelton, Secretary - Community Engagement Committee
• Miranda Morrow-Bartell, Community Engagement Committee
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For today’s meeting at 10 a.m. EST you may dial in by Zoom. 📩 Email inquire@detroitlandbank.org for public comments. Find today’s public meeting agenda here - buildhttps://buildingdetroit.org/events/meetings
It’s 10 a.m. Last week the Finance/Audit committee and the Community Engagement committee meetings were held
on June 17 and 18, respectively.
Next month’s Board of Directors meeting will be held July 22 at 10 a.m. EST
In April, CEO Tammy Daniels informed the board that Detroit City Council cut the budget (i.e. annual city subsidy) for the department in its entirety to $0.00. She referred to City Council’s closing resolution for the FY25-26 budget.
Link to the resolution in next post.
https://detroitmi.gov/sites/detroitmi.localhost/files/2025-05/City%20Council%20Closing%20Resolution%20FY%202026.pdf
City Council closing resolution (fiscal years 2025-2026) that eliminated DLBA’s funding for the Buyback program
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Agency Information
Detroit Land Bank Authority
The Detroit Land Bank is a public authority dedicated to returning Detroit’s vacant, abandoned, and foreclosed property to productive use. Current programs include auction, side lot, community partnership and demolition.
There are about 150 full-time employees at the Detroit Land Bank Authority. While all the names are not available on the DLBA site, Documenters was provided with the following list of some of the board members and staff.
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