TELLING DETROIT'S STORY - TAKING CHARGE OF OUR STORY: WHERE THE DETROIT REGION HAS BEEN, WHERE WE ARE AND WERE WE INTEND TO GO.

Myth: Government is ineffective and people improved their station in life through their hard work.

Fact: The Federal Housing Administration helped to create post-war affluence by subsidizing home mortgages that enabled potential home buyers to access capital cheaply for the first time.  These programs helped many immigrants buy homes and move from the city to middle class neighborhood in the suburbs.

According to David Freund, public authority must now be harnessed to create opportunity as it did in the past.