About Our Work
Dream of Detroit is combining community organizing with strategic housing and land development to build a healthy community and empower our neighborhood on the Westside of Detroit.
Here’s what we’ve accomplished so far:
- 8 homes successfully rehabbed and three more in progress.
- 20+ parcels owned by DREAM or community members.
- 50 graduates from our Entrepreneurship Training Program.
- 114 trees planted throughout our neighborhood.
- More than 350 volunteers engaged in 5 years.
- 2,000 attendees at our 2018 DREAM Street Fair.
- Featured in local and national media: The Nation, The Detroit Free Press, The Guardian, WJR NewsTalk, Sapelo Square, AltMuslim, Mad Mamluks, Diffused Congruence.
- Member of Detroit LIVE FREE and the Coalition to End Unconstitutional Tax Foreclosures, with partners throughout the neighborhood and across the country.
Nearly 10 Homes Rehabbed
| Before | After |
“The True Life that God wants for all people—not one people—their true life is a life of cooperation… Community Life!” – Imam W.D. Mohammed
