Local coverage
Project conversations across Macomb County and the Warren metro.
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Center Line
A landlocked enclave completely surrounded by Warren, Center Line's oldest housing dates to its 1925 village incorporation, well before vapor barriers were standard beneath a slab or behind a basement wall.
Local planning notes →Eastpointe
Known as East Detroit from 1929 until residents renamed it Eastpointe in 1992, most of this city's housing predates modern vapor-barrier practice, so wall cavities dry inward and slowly.
Local planning notes →Hazel Park
Named for hazelnut bushes on naturally swampy ground, Hazel Park's Cape Cod bungalows create a distinctive attic-and-crawlspace moisture path that concentrates humidity under the roof.
Local planning notes →Ferndale
Built out from 1920s Sears and Montgomery Ward kit homes through a 1950s bungalow boom, Ferndale's century-old framing needs era-matched drying rather than modern assumptions about how an assembly behaves.
Local planning notes →Oak Park
America's Fastest-Growing City for 1950-1960, Oak Park's slab-on-grade tract homes share the same original vapor-barrier details block after block, so the same problem repeats street by street.
Local planning notes →St. Clair Shores
Built on ground early French settlers called swampland, St. Clair Shores' 14 miles of canals mean ambient humidity is a year-round condition rather than a seasonal one.
Local planning notes →Harper Woods
Incorporated in 1951 from Gratiot Township, Harper Woods packed nearly all its housing into one narrow postwar construction window, so its basements share a single set of weaknesses.
Local planning notes →Grosse Pointe Woods
A lakefront village since 1927, Grosse Pointe Woods carries some of the oldest housing stock in this cluster, predating modern moisture control by several decades.
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