These actions led federal officials to seek lots in the surrounding suburbs to construct housing for Black defense workers, and that ended with a purchase of 170 acres in Dearborn to establish 1400 units of temporary housing (Taylor 252). In response, Dearborn civic leader successfully stalled the creation of the project by filing injunctions. Similarly, in 1962, Hamtramck used federal funds to eradicate the city’s residential neighborhoods with high concentrations of Blacks in order to expand the Chrysler Plant. Federal funds provided through urban renewal were also utilized to remove the homes that mostly consisted of Black occupied and owned to create an expressway to the Chrysler plant.
