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Eligible Distressed Areas (2011)

Eligible Distressed Areas

Eligible Distressed Areas are those cities, villages and townships which exhibit higher than statewide average levels of economic distress. Applicants for certain competitive MSHDA programming who are located in an Eligible Distressed Area may receive enhancements to their applications. There are no cash awards available to residents, businesses, or local governments based on the Eligible Distressed Areas list.
Section 11 of Public Act 346 of 1966 defines an "eligible distressed area" as one or more of the following:


1. Community Wide:
A community that meets all of the following requirements (formula allocation):
A. The municipality shows a negative population change from 1970 to the date of the most recent federal decennial census.
B. The municipality shows an overall increase in the state equalized value of real and personal property of less than the statewide average increase since 1972.
C. The municipality has a poverty rate, as defined by the most recent decennial census, greater than the statewide average.
D. The municipality has had an unemployment rate higher than the statewide average unemployment rate for three of the preceding five years.
2. Blighted Areas Within a Community:
An area located in a city with a population of at least 10,000 which is either designated as a "blighted area" by a local legislative body or which is determined by the Authority to be blighted or largely vacant by reason of clearance or blight. If the Authority designates the area as blighted, it must determine that private enterprise has failed to provide a supply of adequate, safe, and sanitary dwellings sufficient to meet market demand. In addition, the city must approve the changes in income limits that are associated with this designation by either a resolution or written communication from the higher legislative body of the city or the mayor (Section 11(u)(i)(B)).

3. Neighborhood Enterprise Zone Qualified Communities:
An area located in a local unit of government certified by the Michigan Enterprise Zone Authority as meeting the criteria prescribed in Section 2(d) of the Neighborhood Enterprise Zone Act of 1992. These criteria now include all county seats.

Eligible Distressed Areas April 13, 2011

CITIES


Adrian Albion Allegan Alma Alpena Ann Arbor Bad Axe Bangor Battle Creek Bay City Benton Harbor Bessemer Big Rapids Bronson Buchanan Burton Cadillac Carson City Caspian Center Line Charlevoix Charlotte Cheboygan Coldwater Coleman Corunna Crystal Falls Dearborn Dearborn Heights Detroit Dowagiac Durand East Lansing Eastpointe Ecorse Escanaba Ferndale Flint Gaastra Gaylord Gibralter Gladstone Gladwin Grand Haven Grand Rapids Grayling	Hamtramck Harbor Beach Harper Woods Harrison Harrisville Hart Hartford Hastings Hazel Park Highland Park Hillsdale Holland Houghton Howell Inkster Ionia Iron Mountain Iron River Ironwood Ishpeming Ithaca Jackson Kalamazoo Lake City Lansing Lapeer Lincoln Park Livonia Ludington Manistee Manistique Marine City Marquette Marshall Mason Melvindale Menominee Midland Monroe Mt. Clemens Mt. Morris Mt. Pleasant Munising Muskegon	Muskegon Heights Norton Shores Niles Norway Oak Park Olivet Omer Onaway Owosso Petoskey Pinconning Pontiac Port Huron Portage Reed City River Rouge Rogers City Saginaw Sandusky Sault Ste. Marie St. Ignace St. Johns St. Joseph St. Louis Southfield Standish Stanton Sturgis Tawas City Taylor Three Rivers Traverse City Trenton Vassar Wakefield Warren Wayne West Branch White Cloud Wyandotte Wyoming Ypsilanti

VILLAGES

Atlanta Baldwin Bellaire Beulah Caro Cassopolis	Centreville Eagle River Kalkaska L'Anse Leland Mio	Newberry Ontonagon Paw Paw Roscommon

TOWNSHIPS

Benton (Berrien) Buena Vista (Saginaw) Calumet (Houghton) Carp Lake (Ontonagon) Carrollton (Saginaw) Champion (Marquette) Columbia (Tuscola) Duncan (Houghton) Elba (Gratiot) Elmwood (Tuscola) Emerson (Gratiot) Genesee (Genesee) Marlette (Sanilac)		Minden (Sanilac) Montrose (Genesee) Mt. Morris (Genesee) Oliver (Huron County) Oscoda (Iosco) Pulawski (Presque Isle) Redford (Wayne) Royal Oak (Oakland) Sebewaing (Huron) Sheridan (Calhoun) Spaulding (Saginaw) Turner (Arenac) Wisner (Tuscola)

TOTAL=174 EDAs: 132 Cities, 26 Townships, and 16 Villages