While
the
population
in Detroit has fallen over
recent decades, the Muslim
community in the Detroit
area has grown, in part due to
the influx of refugees. Sally
Howell, director of the Center
for Arab American studies and
associate professor of history
at the University of Michigan-
Dearborn, spoke on the long,
rooted
history
of
Muslim
communities in Detroit at her
lecture Monday evening.
“I noticed in 2010 that if
you look at the census maps
of Detroit, Detroit as most
of you probably realize, is
losing population, bleeding
population for quite some
time now” she said. “The only
zip codes or census tracts that
showed
population
growth
between 2000 and 2010 were
also zip codes or census tracts
where Muslims are living.”
The number of people of
Yemeni, Syrian, Iraqi and
Lebanese, backgrounds have
been
growing
in
Detroit
since
about
2000.
The
After
years
of
struggle,
Detroit’s housing market is
on the rebound — and young
professionals may be the cause.
Following a three-year-long
fall of Detroit’s housing market,
neighborhoods such as Midtown
and Downtown are now seeing
growth in property values.
According to the Detroit Free
Press, Detroit homes sold for
the cheapest they ever have in
2009 — the median listed price
of a home was $7,000 with many
houses going for as low as $1
because of liability of ownership.
However, the median price
just hit an eight-year high of
$165,000 in May of this year.
Several
factors
could
be
contributing to this growth.
Some experts say this new
trend can be attributed to a low
supply of habitable houses, not
neccessarily a resurgence of the
city. Kim Page, a Detroit real
estate expert, said the number of
inhabitable houses in Detroit has
dropped, increasing the value of
houses that are still inhabitable.
“There
are
a
lot
more
buyers moving into the city of
Detroit, especially within the
Downtown and Midtown area,
causing prices to increase maybe
Fertility and gender equality
in Japan are both low — on
Monday,
leading
Japanese
sociologist
Setsuya
Fukuda
asked an audience of about 30
people on campus why.
From a policy standpoint,
parental leave, family policy
and employment opportunity
laws in Japan are surprisingly
comparable to that of nations
in the European Union and
the
United
States,
Fukuda
said. However, but Japan’s
population is shrinking due to
aging and low birthrates, and
social roles may be to blame.
Fukuda
is
a
senior
researcher in the Department
of Planning and Coordination
at Japan’s National Institute of
Population and Social Security
Research. His lecture focused
on issues women face in the
workforce,
and
subsequent
impacts on birth rates, Japan
has
3.45
million
potential
female workers, and Fukuda
cited several to social pressures
that may disincentivize women
from working.
“I personally believe that
gender issues or reconstructing
gender
roles
in
Japan
is
becoming the most important
challenge for Japanese society,”
Fukuda said in an interview
with The Michigan Daily.
He
presented
several
statistics on how Japan’s share
of women in managerial and
leadership positions, as well as
the country’s gender pay gap,
ranked poorly when compared
to other advanced economies.
Fukuda also pointed out that
many women in Japan work
full-time until childbirth and
then return to the workforce as
part-timers after childbirth.
During
his
presentation,
Fukuda
proposed
several
solutions to the issue for a
nation with policies that have
worked elsewhere, but aren’t
working there. Japan’s tax and
social security laws are based
on a model where the man earns
most of the family’s income, but
Fukuda said these laws should
be adjusted to the reality of a
society where more women
want to continue working full-
time along with their husbands
after childbirth.
Japan should also abolish
tax deductions for dependent
spouses who make less than
a certain annual income that
are putting pressure on women
to stay at home or work part-
time to achieve equity, Fukuda
added.
Another solution may be to
implement EU-like labor laws
to strictly regulate working
hours. Fukuda said Japan’s
corporate
culture,
which
stresses loyalty to the company,
is forcing men to frequently
On
a
campus
that
is
overwhelmingly ‘blue,’ student
supporters
of
Republican
presidential
nominee
Donald
Trump are in the minority, with
no official group currently on
campus for supporters, though the
candidate has been endorsed by
the College Republicans.
In a recent Michigan Daily poll
of 1000 students, respondents
indicated overwhelming support
for Democratic nominee Hillary
Clinton — 74.3 percent compared
to only 5.9 percent who said
they would vote for Trump. In
the same survey when third-
party candidates were included,
Libertarian presidential nominee
Gary Johnson received more than
double Trump’s support, with 13.2
percent indicating they would vote
for Johnson.
In Washtenaw County overall,
Trump was also the second
choice, receiving 27.5 percent of
the county’s vote to Ohio Gov.
John Kasich’s 34.1 percent in the
GOP primary earlier this year.
While
being
outnumbered
doesn’t
deter
some
Trump
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See HOUSING, Page 3
MAZIE HYAMS/Daily
Due to future developmen projects. Lucky Kitchen, located on East University Ave., is closed.
When Jenny Wu learned she
would have to sell the Lucky
Kitchen’s
Central
Campus
location to make room for an
apartment high-rise, she wasn’t
surprised.
It has been common knowledge
among the small business owners
along South University Avenue,
Wu said, that large property
developers — attracted by rising
rents largely paid by students —
are seeking to acquire real estate
near Central Campus to erect new
apartments. The change seemed
inevitable.
“We heard over the years that
this was happening, and it was
just bound to happen to us and we
just didn’t know when,” Wu said.
“We were surprised though to be
the first ones to be approached, so
we really didn’t have any choice.”
Originally founded in 1993 near
North Campus and expanding to
East University Avenue in 2001,
Lucky Kitchen has become a staple
of the University of Michigan
community, winning accolades as
students’ top choice for the best
Chinese food on campus.
See TRUMP, Page 3
MAZIE HYAMS/Daily
Setsuya Fukuda, senior researcher at the Department of Research Planning and Coordination, National Institute of Population
and Social Security Research in Japan gives his presentation on Gender Equity in Japan in the School of Social Work Monday.
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battling opposing defensive
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See JAPAN, Page 2
See HOUSING, Page 3
In Detroit,
young people
split housing
market
High-rises in Ann Arbor spark
mixed reactions from residents
STATE
As property values increase, experts
see two economies forming
WILL FEUER
Daily Staff Reporter
New apartment complex on South U. closes down several local businesses
BRIAN KUANG
Daily Staff Reporter
Students
for Trump
on campus
dismantles
ELECTION
Leadership of chapter
graduates and is not
replaced
CALEB CHADWELL
Daily Staff Reporter
Top Japanese sociologist discusses
workplace equality issues for women
Despite relatively progressive policies, country struggles with equity
ISHI MORI
Daily Staff Reporter
Prof. talks
supporting
Muslims in
Michigan
CAMPUS LIFE
Sally Howell discusses
importance of building
communitiy ties
KEVIN LINDER
Daily Staff Reporter