Duggan was elected in November 2013 with "blight remediation" a key plank in a platform he built around a financial turnaround, economic development and reduced crime rates.The special inspector general for the U.S. Treasury Department’s Troubled Asset Relief Program -- from which Detroit gets its federal blight-relief dollars -- is investigating the city's demolition program. The federally backed program has been tainted by allegations that Mayor Mike Duggan favored demolition contractors who donated to his campaign and by a steep rise in costs.
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