DETROIT – Detroit’s first female mayor gave her first State of the City address Tuesday night, laying out ambitious plans from education to crime and housing to neighborhoods.
The main areas Mayor Sheffield focused on were neighborhoods, education, transportation, crime and public safety, seniors and affordable housing.
The conversation that seemed to get the biggest reaction was the mayor’s full-pivot plan to a neighborhood-first policy -- housing, safety, retail, transit and investment.
Watch the full State of the City Address here --> What Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield announced in her first State of the City address
To break down the highlights of Tuesday night’s speech, Portia Roberson, CEO of Focus: HOPE, Jeremy Allen, executive director for the Michigan Chronicle, Mario Marrow with Mario Marrow Associates, and Nushrat Rahman, the Economic Mobility Reporter for the Detroit Free Press and Bridge Detroit, joined Local 4 Live in a roundtable discussion. You can watch the full discussion in the video at the beginning of this article.