MIHELP — Michigan Higher Education Land Policy Consortium

PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS AND TOOLS

One of the goals of the Michigan Higher Education Land Policy Consortium is to disseminate information. Here you can find a variety of reports, publications, presentations and other tools to help inform discourse on metropolitan issues.

Book on "Sustaining Michigan: Metropolitan Policies and Strategies"

The MIHELP Consortium released “Sustaining Michigan: Metropolitan Policies and Strategies” to link critical, cutting-edge scholarship to pressing issues facing Michigan's metropolitan communities and to increase an understanding of the key economic, environmental, social and political reasons for why change is underway, the challenges to the current system, and the difficulty for Michigan in making substantive changes. The book is available for purchase through Michigan State University Press for “$24.95 plus tax.

Presentations available from 2008 MIHELP Consortium Symposium

A diverse group of insightful community leaders, educators and legislators led a conversation on “Rescuing Low Performing Cities: Policies to Deal with Cities that Empty Out” at a MIHELP Symposium on Monday, November 17, 2008, in Detroit. The symposium focused on city depopulation, its impacts and the strategies that could reverse the trend or soften the negative effects of city decline. It showcased the work of academic researchers and others, including elected officials and practicing professionals. Download the presentations at MIHELP Symposium.

Urban Policy Research Series Posters and Power points

In 2007, policy research was commissioned on priority topics identified by the Urban Core Mayors. The MSU Center for Community and Economic Development (CCED), in partnership with the MIHELP consortium, connected Michigan’s elected leaders with its finest urban scholars to address the critical urban policy issues facing our state to support local and state policy development for cities. Power point presentations and posters are available for download here.

State of the Cities Report and Data

State of Michigan Cities: An Index of Urban Prosperity, an official publication of MIHELP is available here in several formats for the use of students, staff, academics or other interested individuals.