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As Detroit continues to evolve, residents’ opinions need to be part of the conversation about the city’s future.

The Detroit Metro Area Communities Study (DMACS) is an initiative designed to regularly survey a broad, representative group of Detroit residents about their communities, including their expectations, perceptions, priorities, and aspirations. Since 2016, University of Michigan’s Detroit Metro Area Communities Study has used a city-wide survey to help bridge the gap between Detroit officials and re

sidents whose voices may not always be heard in public discussions. Completed by a representative sample of more than 2,000 Detroiters, the ongoing DMACS survey provides valuable insights on the perceptions and attitudes of people who live and work in Detroit. Topics covered include policing, trust in government, access to health care, perceptions of neighborhoods, transportation, race relations, and who benefits most from recent investments in the city. Insights from each wave of the survey can inform city policies and community programming to produce better outcomes for Detroit residents. Following scientific survey methods, the randomly-selected survey participants make up a representative sample that reflects the general population of the City of Detroit. This means the DMACS survey includes the views of typically hard-to-reach populations. Different groups experience changes within the city differently, so it’s important the survey reaches people from a variety of age groups, races, income levels, residents from all city council districts, newcomers as well as longtime residents, renters and homeowners. Survey partners have included the Kresge Foundation, Detroit Health Department, Knight Foundation, Michigan State Housing Development Authority, New Economy Initiative, Community Development Foundation for Southeast Detroit, City of Detroit, and the Strategic Neighborhoods Fund.

12/07/2022

Thank you Bridge Detroit for this important piece about the new Detroit Home Repair Fund.

As quoted in the article, our studies have shown an ongoing crisis in the living conditions of a huge number of Detroiters. Home repairs are desperately needed across the city, and existing options for aid cannot meet the demand.

The Detroit Home Repair Fund is a step in the right direction, but it is already over capacity. More programs providing aid for home repairs are essential to solve this problem, which affects low-income residents and residents of color disproportionately.

It is clear that the need is there, and we hope that the demand for the Detroit Home Repair Fund encourages further investments in home repair for Detroiters!

Gilbert Family Foundation says 5,689 people are effectively in line for aid from the $20 million fund.

13/04/2018

So very grateful to the Knight Foundation for this empowering and exciting grant! For the next three years we are going to help amplify the voices and concerns of Detroiters from every walk of life and every corner of the city on issues ranging from public health to community development to entrepreneurship. Follow our page to keep abreast of new findings!

April 12, 2018Share:FacebookTwitterLinkedInEmailPhoto of RiverWalk in downtown Detroit: licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 from Michigan Municipal League without manipulation. DETROIT—April 12, 2018—To help drive local decision-making that represents the needs and preferences of all Detroit comm...

11/04/2018

Imani Mixon hosts a great new podcast on Michigan Radio about Detroit's MorningSide neighborhood, wrappiing in voices like University of Michigan's Eric Dueweke! Check it out!

This year, Michigan Radio is trying something new. Instead of sending a reporter in to tell stories about MorningSide, we’re inviting the MorningSide

06/04/2018

Join us and the Knight Foundation to celebrate a major grant that will allow us to field survey research in the City of Detroit for the next three years. There will be cool people, neat intel from our previous surveys, ways to get involved in our 2018 rounds, and, mmmmm, breakfast from Avalon International Breads!

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Welcome to DMACS - the Detroit Metropolitan Area Communities Study!

We are a project at the University of Michigan supported by the Institute for Social Research, the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the Poverty Solutions Initiative. Our mission is to provide scientifically valid data on public opinions in the City of Detroit. DMACS helps promote a culture of resident engagement in creating vital neighborhoods by involving stakeholders in the prioritization, collection and dissemination of public opinion information that supports more meaningful and effective community development investments in Detroit.

To ensure that community leaders have access to reliable public opinion data, DMACS fields and reports out on surveys of Detroiters carefully designed to capture the multitude of experiences and perspectives of the residents. We are a research tool for Detroit area decision-makers that is unique in its scale (providing deep intel across the entire city); representativeness (leveraging state-of-the-art scientific methods); and continuity (engaging a consistent panel of respondents year after year).