Get help with your property taxes:
The Homeowner’s Property Tax Assistance Program (HPTAP – The Exemption) help you not have to pay this year’s property taxes. It must be applied for annually, and it does not automatically renew.
Click here to print the Homeowner’s Property Tax Assistance Application.
The United Community Housing Coalition is a great resource for property tax and mortgage issues.
View UCHC’s flyer explaining the Exemption
Ask about the reduced interest payment agreement
The Step Forward Michigan Program can forgive tax debt that accrued while you owned the home:
View your currently delinquent taxes HERE.
View your current non-delinquent tax bill HERE.
View UCHC’s flyer about property tax payment plans
State Emergency Relief (SER) $2,000 payment
Renter Information and Renter’s Rights
Right of Refusal (buy back foreclosed house)
You can apply for an Distressed Owner-Occupant Extension (DOOE)
Here is the City of Detroit Property Tax Calendar:
- 1st Partial Summer Payment due August 15
(Detroit and Wayne County Operating) - 2nd Partial Summer Payment due January 15
(Detroit and Wayne County Operating) - Full Summer Payment due August 31
(Detroit and Wayne County Operating) - Winter Payment due January 15
(Balance of Wayne County Taxes)
Visit the City of Detroit Treasury Division HERE.
Informational flyers displayed on this page are from http://www.uchcdetroit.org/resources
The following organizations provide free legal aid with regards to taxes:
- United Community Housing Coalition
220 Bagley, Suite 224, Detroit
(313)963-3310 (Detroit Residents Only)
Email: Contact Ted at tphillips@uchcdetroit.org
- Legal Aid and Defender Association:
613 Abbott St. #1
Detroit, MI 48226
313-967-5555
- Michigan Legal Services:
(313) 964-4130
Email: Contact Marilyn at mmullane@michiganlegal.org
- William Booth Legal Aid Clinic-Harbor Light Center
3737 Lawton
Detroit, MI 48208
313-361-6340
(Mainly for mortgage foreclosure.)
651 E. Jefferson Ave. ~ Det. 48226 ~ 313-596-9846
Contact: Joon Sung
If you do not qualify for free legal help, you may contact the Detroit Bar Association, Lawyer Referral Service at
(313) 961-3545.
Possible Financial Help:
Michigan Department of Human Services through the State Emergency Relief (SER) program
(313) 456-1000
To locate the nearest office Wayne County Veterans Affairs:
(313) 224-8162
