Council Member Lisa Disch revealed a shocking trend: Ann Arbor lost 4,000 low-income households while gaining 6,000 high-income ones (2013-23), risking a "Manhattan" scenario of income extremes.

Ann Arbor’s affordable housing crisis is pushed further as officials use made up and old data for their new Draft Comprehensive Plan, choosing to ignore realistic and standard SEMCOG projections that are used for everything from transit to water infrastructure.

This data paints a picture of a city rapidly hollowing out its lower and middle-income populations, fostering extreme economic segregation.


Ann Arbor's leaders showcase their profound disconnect between the community’s lived crisisand the city’s data-deficient and out-of-touch planning.