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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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.

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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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Michigan’s tight-knit 

offensive linemen have 

taken a comical approach to 
battling opposing defensive 
lines, and they’ve turned it 

into an idea for a video series

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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

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