Detroit Social Equity Fall 2026 Check-In

September 17, 2026Updated September 20, 202629 min read

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You handed cash across a Detroit counter this fall. The ticket printed tax. It didn't print whether that shop is social equity, Detroit Legacy, or just another logo.

I wanted that check, not a history class or a pep talk. Here's what actually moved since last year, what's still stuck, and what a shopper can see before they buy. Divine Toke is a sun-grown organic cannabis farm rooted in Detroit, Michigan. We're not claiming a state social-equity license or a city award in this piece. We're neighbors asking whether the equity promise still shows up at the register.

If you want the longer "who benefits" story, that lives in our Detroit cannabis equity explainer. The Black-owned businesses piece covers the movement. Juneteenth and cannabis justice covers the history. This post is the fall 2026 status check.

Detroit's city equity track and Michigan's CRA social-equity program are both still on the books this fall, but the city hasn't posted a new adult-use award round, and a shopper still can't count on a sign at the counter. The state's Social Equity Grant Program ran another $1 million cycle for fiscal year 2026. The city's Office of Cannabis Affairs is live on renewals, office hours, and Detroit Legacy certification. What you can see on a Wednesday night is thinner than the press releases.

Here's the fall snapshot I can source. No invented shop counts. No "we talked to the owner" quotes.

Surface	What stands this fall	What that means on a Detroit night
State CRA social equity	Still open. Fee cuts and grants still exist.	A license class, not a sticker on the jar
FY 2026 grant pot	$1 million, split equally	Cash for licensed, majority-owned, All-Star shops
FY 2026 grant list	114 entities on the live CRA page	Statewide list. Not "114 Detroit stores"
City adult-use awards	Last detailed public round is still Round 2 (Nov. 14, 2023)	No new city award release found for 2025–2026
City office	Office of Cannabis Affairs under Civil Rights, Inclusion & Opportunity	Renewals, change forms, Legacy applications
Counter badge	Optional CRA visibility since March 16, 2023	Many equity shops never opt in
Ownership race share	3.8% Black or African American, December 2020 CRA survey	Still the last official demographic number

All three of these are true at once:

The program didn't vanish. The CRA Social Equity Program still lists applications, renewals, All-Star, and grants.
A license on a 2023 city list isn't the same as an open store with a clerk who can explain ownership.
A shopper still has homework. If you want to spend with equity, you check a state page. You ask. You don't trust a vibe.

I'll stay at the program level. If I can't source a 2026 count, I'll say that. If a business isn't named on a 2026 primary page for the claim I'm making, it stays unnamed.

What Changed Since Last Year's Detroit Equity Posts? #

The state grant list got longer, the All-Star lock stayed, and a 24% wholesale tax started on January 1, 2026. Detroit's last detailed adult-use award announcement is still Round 2 from November 2023. The year added grant paperwork and a heavier tax. The city office is talking renewals. Nobody posted a new city lottery or a new official race-share.

The grant cycle moved. The city award board didn't. #

Last summer we could point at a 2025 grant cycle that listed 103 entities sharing $1 million. The year before that, the 2023–2024 CRA grantee page listed 62. This fall, the live FY 2026 eligible-grantees page lists 114 entities, many with mid-term and final reports already posted.

That climb is real. It's also statewide. Don't read 114 as 114 Detroit storefronts. Some names on that page include Detroit in the DBA. Most don't. A grower in another county can be social equity. A Detroit retailer can be silent about it.

Grant year (CRA pages)	Entities I counted on the official list	Pot (CRA / LARA)
2023–2024	62	$1 million shared equally
2024–2025	103	$1 million shared equally
2025–2026	114 on the live page	$1 million shared equally

LARA's October 22, 2025 note said the FY 2026 pot would be $1 million divided equally. The November 5, 2025 release opened the window November 1–30, 2025. The CRA still uses the same three gates: a valid adult-use license, majority ownership by active social-equity participants, and Social Equity All-Star certification.

If 114 entities split $1 million, the equal-share math is about $8,770 each. That's rent, payroll, or a compliance bill. A build-out and a bank account still sit outside that check.

The CRA grant page also locks how the check can be used. One grant per entity, even if they hold more than one license. Allowed buckets:

Bucket	What the CRA allows	What a shopper can do with that
Employee education	Classes at an accredited school that relate to the business	Ask if anyone on the floor is actually in a class
Business needs	Bills that keep the license legal, including payroll in the FY 2026 to-do list	This is lights-on money, not a new store
Community investment	A donation to a group in good standing that helps the community where the entity sits	Read the report. See if the zip code matches the story

I'm not grading those PDFs shop by shop. The paper exists this fall, which is more than we had when the only public artifact was a press release.

The tax stack got heavier on January 1 #

Michigan Treasury's wholesale marijuana tax page is blunt. A 24% tax on certain adult-use wholesale sales and transfers started January 1, 2026. The money is supposed to go to the neighborhood road fund. Your receipt still prints the 10% retail excise and 6% sales tax. The 24% is upstream. It still hits a small equity operator who buys wholesale or sells into a shop.

We already walked the Q2 cash print in Michigan's $37.38 million wholesale-tax note. The equity angle is simpler: a thin-margin shop doesn't get a social-equity exemption on that 24%. The grant is $1 million statewide. The tax is on the whole adult-use pipeline.

What didn't change, on purpose #

I looked for a 2025 or 2026 Detroit award-round press release that updated the November 14, 2023 Round 2 counts. Didn't find one. The adult-use retailer page is change-of-location and ownership forms. The Office of Cannabis Affairs advertises license-renewal office hours. Office hours and change forms are real work. They still aren't a new lottery.

The last official statewide race-share I can still cite is the 3.8% Black or African American figure from the December 2020 licensee survey. The CRA statistical-report hub has monthly files through August 2026. The landing page doesn't publish a new ownership-by-race number, so there isn't a newer official percent to cite.

So the year moved the grant list and the tax. It didn't move the city's last award headline, and it didn't replace that old demographic snapshot.

Michigan's Cannabis Regulatory Agency still cuts adult-use fees for majority owners who meet one of three paths, and Detroit is on the state's list of 184 disproportionately impacted communities. The live criteria sit on the CRA Social Equity Program page. This is the state layer. Detroit's city license is a second layer. You can have one without the other.

Who qualifies, in plain words #

The CRA asks for majority ownership by people who meet one of these:

Path	What you have to show	Fee cut on the CRA page
Place	Lived in a disproportionately impacted community for at least 5 of the last 10 years	25%
Misdemeanor	A marijuana-related misdemeanor, even if it was later expunged	25%
Felony	A marijuana-related felony, even if it was later expunged	40%
Caregiver	Registered primary caregiver under the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act for at least 2 years between 2008 and 2017	10%

That's the individual path. There's also a place rule for the shop itself. If eligible social-equity owners plan to operate inside a disproportionately impacted community, the fee cut applies to all adult-use licensing fees. If they operate outside one, the extra cut lasts only two years after adult-use licensure. Detroit is inside the map. A lot of Michigan isn't.

The communities page names 184 places. Wayne County includes Detroit, Dearborn, Ecorse, Hamtramck, Highland Park, Inkster, Melvindale, River Rouge, and Wayne. A person from Flint, Pontiac, Benton Harbor, or Muskegon Heights can qualify on residency too. This is a Michigan program that includes Detroit, not a Detroit-only club.

The fee before the discount #

The CRA adult-use fee FAQ still lists a $3,000 nonrefundable prequalification application. A marijuana retailer initial fee is $15,000. A Class C grower or a processor is $24,000. Renewal matches those license-type numbers. Social equity can shrink that check. It doesn't shrink the build-out, the cameras, the bond, or the first inventory. Our licensing cost piece is the longer bill.

All-Star is the extra lock this fall #

The Social Equity All-Star Program is how the CRA scores public plans:

Bronze: publish a social equity plan on the CRA site
Silver: bronze plus a corporate spend plan with diverse suppliers
Gold: silver plus a community reinvestment plan

FY 2026 grant rules require All-Star certification before the grant application counts. That's new pressure compared with "just get licensed." It also creates one of the few public paper trails a shopper can actually open. Bronze plans live on the social equity plans page. Some licensees publish. Some sit on the unpublished list at the bottom. A missing plan on that list is still information. The state doesn't make every equity shop wear a badge.

Silver and Gold add spend and donation plans. Those PDFs can look like a company brochure. Read them anyway. A plan that names a Detroit zip is different from a plan that names "the community" and stops. I'm not grading them here. They're public this fall, and a shopper who cares can open them on a phone in the parking lot.

Did Detroit Open Another Adult-Use License Round? #

No public 2025 or 2026 Detroit adult-use award round showed up on the city pages I checked. The last detailed count is still Round 2 from November 14, 2023. The Office of Marijuana Ventures and Entrepreneurship announcement approved 37 applicants: 13 majority African American–owned, 5 majority women-owned, and 21 with majority owners who are Detroit residents. Sixty-five applications came in. Retailer seats split 15 equity and 15 non-equity.

That release is almost three years old this fall. It's still the city's clearest public scoreboard. A newer round would make a cleaner story. The city pages I checked still stop at 2023.

Round 2 wasn't only retailers. The city split three license types, and the seats were small outside retail:

License type	What it lets you do	What Round 2 actually awarded
Retailer	Sell licensed product to adults	15 equity and 15 non-equity licenses. Zero provisional retailer certificates.
Microbusiness	Grow, process, and sell your own, with a plant cap	2 equity microbusiness provisional certificates. Zero regular micro licenses.
Designated consumption lounge	Host adults to consume on site	1 equity license, 3 equity provisionals, 1 non-equity provisional

Those lounge and micro seats are where a neighborhood operator sometimes tries to skip a wholesaler. They are also the seats that take the longest to open. A 2023 provisional lounge isn't a 2026 Friday night you can walk into unless the city and the state both show it as live. Check current tools. Don't use my table as a nightlife map.

What the city office is doing instead #

The office name on the website is now the Office of Cannabis Affairs, under Civil Rights, Inclusion & Opportunity. The page talks about licensing, a social equity fund from statutory cannabis revenue sharing, and connecting Detroiters to technical help. The announcements I could source this fall are practical:

Virtual office hours
License-renewal office hours
A retailer information page for location and ownership-structure changes
A still-live Detroit Legacy certification application
A pointer to Project Clean Slate for record expungement

The city's license-renewal page says Detroit cannabis licenses expire September 30 each year and renewals are due 120 days prior. The page still doesn't publish who filed.

That's an office doing renewals and change forms. Useful if you already have a license. Still no new 37-name award list.

Why the city had to rewrite the first ordinance #

Detroit's first adult-use design leaned hard on long-term residency. A federal judge called that approach likely unconstitutional. MLive covered the 2021 ruling. The city later split equity and non-equity tracks and lined equity up with the state's disproportionately-impacted-community idea. Legacy Detroiter stayed as a city certification with mentoring and paperwork, not as the only key to a license.

The current Legacy paths, in the city's own words:

Path	What the city asks for
15-year resident	Proof of 15 years in Detroit over the last 30, plus current residency
13-year, low income	13 years plus household income under 80% of Detroit median, listed as $24,716 on the page
10-year plus conviction	10 years plus a marijuana conviction before November 7, 2018
10-year plus parent's conviction	Same residency, plus a parent's marijuana conviction before your 18th birthday

A certification form isn't a storefront. A provisional city certificate isn't a clerk on Livernois. Round 2 said as much by listing provisional certificates next to addresses. Some of those names later show up on the state's FY 2026 grant page. That overlap is interesting, but it's not a tour guide. I'm not treating a 2023 address as a 2026 hours-of-operation claim.

If you want the urban-revival frame, that's growing cannabis in Detroit. This section is only the fall license board.

What Can a Shopper Actually See at the Counter? #

Most Detroit counters won't volunteer social-equity status. The state made visibility optional in 2023, and a lot of licensees never opted in. You can check paper after you get home. You often can't see a badge while you smell the jar.

On March 16, 2023, the CRA and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced a consent form. Adult-use social-equity businesses that want to be public email CRA-SocialEquity@michigan.gov and show up in the "verify a license" tools and the interactive map. Businesses that stay quiet stay quiet. That's still the rule this fall.

So the counter can look like this:

What you hoped to see	What is actually there
A required "social equity" decal	Not required
A city Legacy plaque	Only if that shop chooses to post one
A clerk who can explain ownership	Hit or miss. Ask. Do not assume.
The 24% wholesale tax as its own line	Usually not. You see 10% + 6%.
A state filter you can check on your phone	Yes, if the shop opted in

Three public pages that beat a vibe #

The FY 2026 grant list. If an entity is on it, the CRA already said they have a valid adult-use license, majority social-equity ownership, and All-Star status. You can open the redacted application and see whether they said the money goes to classes, bills, or a neighborhood donation.
The social equity plans page. Bronze All-Star means a published plan. Unpublished names sit at the bottom. A missing plan is information.
The city Office of Cannabis Affairs tools. Licensed-retailer map, state license check, Legacy certification page. Use them. Do not treat a mural as proof.

A five-minute phone check before you leave the house #

You don't need a binder. You need the shop name as it appears on the license, not the nickname on the awning.

Type the legal name into the FY 2026 grant page search on your phone.
If nothing hits, try the social equity plans list and the unpublished list at the bottom.
Use the state's "verify a cannabis business license" path linked from the 2023 visibility release. Look for the social-equity filter. If the shop never opted in, the filter won't save you.
Cross the name against the city's licensed-retailer map on the Office of Cannabis Affairs page so you aren't driving to a 2023 address that moved.
If two of those pages disagree, believe the newer state license check. Then ask the clerk anyway.

It's boring homework. It's also the only way I know to keep this from becoming a rumor.

A shop only gets named here if I can stand in the door and confirm they're open, opted in, and majority-controlled. A grant PDF can't do that work. A 2026 CRA page can tell you an entity met grant rules. It can't tell you the budtender on duty knows the story, or that the profit split matches the marketing.

What "equity" is not, at the register #

It's not a smell. Sun-grown flower from a Detroit-area farm can be honest and still sit next to a multi-state brand.
It's not a lower tax. Michigan doesn't give shoppers an equity discount at checkout.
It's not a medical claim. A social-equity license is about who owns the box, not whether the flower helps your back.
It's not a guarantee the shop is Black-owned. CRA social equity can be residency, a conviction, or an old caregiver card. Race isn't the only door.

If a clerk can't answer "who owns this place" without a shrug, that's your answer. Spend somewhere that can say it in a sentence.

Why Is the Statewide Ownership Number Still 3.8%? #

Because the Cannabis Regulatory Agency hasn't published a newer official race-share for adult-use ownership interest. The 3.8% Black or African American figure is still the December 2020 licensee survey. The Racial and Ethnic Advisory Workgroup report cites that survey: 79.0% white, 3.8% Black or African American, 1.5% Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin, 4.6% prefer not to answer.

I checked the CRA statistical-report hub for a 2025 or 2026 replacement. Monthly files run through August 2026. The hub doesn't post a new ownership-by-race headline.

CRA's FY2026 annual statistical report ran an adult-use demographic survey: 3,058 sent, 757 responses. There's an identity chart. It still doesn't print a new ownership-by-race percentage. 3.8% from December 2020 stays the last official published number.

That leaves an ugly gap:

Detroit's Round 2 release can say 13 of 37 approved applicants were majority African American–owned.
The state can list 114 FY 2026 grant entities without saying how many are Black-owned.
A shopper in 2026 is still pointing at a 2020 survey when they ask whether legalization changed who owns the licenses.

City award lists and state grant lists are not the same as a demographic census. A majority-African-American city award can sit next to a statewide survey that is six years old. Both can be true. Neither tells you who cashes out after a silent partner takes the real stack. Outlier Media has already flagged paper partnerships. I'm not repeating names from that reporting as if I interviewed them this fall.

The same survey footnote in that report also lists 0.8% American Indian or Alaska Native, 3.8% Asian or Pacific Islander, 6.4% other, and the 4.6% who preferred not to answer. Those slices matter because "not Black" isn't the same as "white-owned chain." A Native-owned shop, an Asian-owned shop, and a prefer-not-to-answer LLC are different stories. The survey still can't tell you who holds the real votes on a board.

If CRA publishes a new race-share after this post, that's a later update. As of this check-in, 3.8% is the last official statewide Black-ownership number I can hang a link on. I'd rather keep the old number with a date than invent a 2026 percentage that looks fresher and isn't real.

What Is Still Stuck for Equity Operators This Fall? #

The stuck parts are the same ones that sink a small shop anywhere in Michigan: cash, tax, and the distance between a license PDF and an open door. Fee cuts and a four-figure grant don't buy a build-out. Optional visibility doesn't fix a bank that won't take the deposit.

The money problem didn't get cute #

Social equity was sold as a repair for neighborhoods that paid the War on Drugs bill. Repair costs more than a 25% discount on a $15,000 retailer fee. The CRA fee table is the cheap line item. Cameras, HVAC, a security contract, first flower, and a lawyer are the rest. We mapped that stack in the real cost of a Michigan license.

The FY 2026 grant helps people who already cleared those gates. You need the license, majority social-equity ownership, and All-Star. If you're still raising money for a build-out, you're not on that 114-name page yet.

Cash is still cash. Cannabis is still mostly a cash business. A social-equity fee cut doesn't open a checking account. I don't have a 2026 CRA count of how many equity shops got a bank. What I can say: the grant rules allow payroll and compliance bills, because those are the bills that hit when a bank says no.

The tax problem got worse in January #

Treasury started the 24% wholesale tax on January 1, 2026. There's no social-equity off-ramp in the guidance I read. A small equity grower or processor who sells wholesale pays into the same road fund as a multi-state company. A small equity retailer still eats the shelf-price pressure. The grant pot is $1 million. The tax sits on the whole adult-use market.

Your Detroit ticket will still look ordinary: 10% excise, 6% sales. The 24% is baked in before you see the jar. That's why a "support equity" night can feel more expensive even when the shop is doing everything right.

The visibility problem is a design choice #

The 2023 visibility release made opt-in the rule. Safety is a real reason. So is not wanting customers. So is a partner who doesn't want the word "equity" on the window. From the shopper side, the result is the same: you can't audit the counter with your eyes.

The city-round problem is time #

Round 2 is still the last detailed public award. A provisional certificate from 2023 can be a store, a delay, or a name that never opened. I don't have a 2026 open-rate for those provisionals. The city's fall pages are renewal and change forms, plain and simple. If a Round 3 window opens later, that's a later post.

What is not stuck #

The CRA program is still accepting social-equity applications and renewals.
Detroit Legacy still has an application form.
Grant reports for FY 2026 are public. You can read how an entity said it spent the check.
Project Clean Slate is still listed on the Office of Cannabis Affairs page. Record-clearing is part of the justice side even when the shop side is messy.

Stuck here means the program is still paperwork, and the night still asks you to do the research. The forms didn't vanish.

How Should a Detroit Shopper Support Equity Without Guessing? #

Check the state list, ask one ownership question, spend like a regular, and skip the shop that treats the question as a vibe. You don't need a lecture. You need a habit that fits a Thursday after work.

A short list you can actually do #

Open the FY 2026 grant page before you go. Search the name on the window. If it's there, you have a 2026 CRA receipt that the entity met majority social-equity ownership and All-Star rules. If it's not there, that doesn't prove they're fake. It only proves they're not on this year's grant list.
Ask the clerk one sentence. "Is this shop majority-owned by people in the state social-equity program or Detroit Legacy?" A good shop can answer. A shrug is data.
Do not treat "Black-owned" and "social equity" as the same sticker. They can overlap. They're not twins. The CRA path can be a conviction, a caregiver card, or five years in a listed community.
Buy what you'll finish. Flower or a 1g joint. A 20-pack is for a house that already knows the lot. Volume isn't justice if the product sits in a drawer.
Come back. One sympathy eighth does less than a monthly jar at a shop that can name its owners.
If you have an old marijuana case, look at Project Clean Slate. That's city infrastructure, not a shop coupon.

What not to do #

Do not demand a clerk diagnose the War on Drugs between customers. That's our Juneteenth post, not their job.
Do not assume a mural, a slogan, or a first name on the menu is an ownership doc.
Do not invent a boycott list from a 2023 address table. Buildings change. Licenses move. Confirm the live state tools.
Do not ask Divine Toke to pretend we hold a social-equity license we have not claimed.

If you want more on how Black-owned shops grew after Round 2, stay with that July guide. If you want the structural "who benefits" map, stay with the May explainer. This fall's job is smaller: know what you can verify tonight.

Divine Toke sells sun-grown organic flower from a Detroit-area Michigan farm. We'll tell you what's in the jar. We won't slap an equity sticker on a night that still needs the CRA page.

If you only have one errand this week, make it this: pick the shop you already use, search the legal name on the FY 2026 grant page, and see if it hits. A hit isn't a halo, and a miss isn't a verdict. It's one more fact than you had when you only trusted the neon.

The state program is open. The city's last detailed adult-use award list is still Round 2. The CRA Social Equity Program still posts applications, renewals, All-Star, and grants. Detroit's Office of Cannabis Affairs is live for renewals and Legacy certification. I didn't find a new city award-round press release for 2025 or 2026.

Check the CRA tools, then ask. Don't wait for a window sticker. Visibility is optional under the March 16, 2023 CRA release. The FY 2026 grant list is a stronger 2026 receipt if the name is on it. A clerk who can't answer "who owns this" in one sentence is also an answer.

Legacy is a Detroit city certification. CRA social equity is a statewide license-fee and grant track. Legacy paths on the city page use long Detroit residency (15 years, 13 years plus low income, or 10 years plus a marijuana conviction). CRA paths use five years in one of 184 listed communities, a marijuana conviction, or an old caregiver card. A shop can have one, both, or neither.

Did Detroit award a third adult-use license round in 2026? #

Not in any city press release I could source for this check-in. The last detailed public count is still Round 2 on November 14, 2023: 37 approved, 13 majority African American–owned. The adult-use retailer page this fall is change forms, not a new lottery.

How many entities are on the CRA FY 2026 grant page? #

I counted 114 unique names on the live eligible-grantees page. That page is here. LARA said the FY 2026 pot is $1 million, split equally. Don't read 114 as 114 Detroit shops. It's a statewide list.

Why do articles still cite 3.8% Black ownership? #

Because that's still the last official published percentage. The REAWG report quotes a December 2020 licensee survey: 3.8% Black or African American ownership interest. Monthly files on the 2026 statistical-report hub run through August 2026 and don't replace it. CRA's FY2026 annual statistical report ran an adult-use demographic survey (3,058 sent / 757 responses) with an identity chart, and it still doesn't print a new ownership-by-race percentage.

Does the 24% wholesale tax show on my Detroit receipt? #

Usually no. You see the 10% retail excise and 6% sales tax. The 24% wholesale tax started January 1, 2026, and hits an earlier sale or transfer. It can still raise the shelf price. There's no social-equity checkout exemption in the Treasury guidance I read.

No. Equity is about who qualifies to own the license, not a required discount. A small shop still pays security, testing, and the same tax stack. A grant share of about $8,770 (if 114 split $1 million) doesn't force a cheaper eighth. Pay for the flower you want. Don't expect a justice sale tag.

Yes. CRA posts the eligible list and, for FY 2026, many applications plus mid-term and final reports. Start at the grant program page. Earlier cycles are archived: 62 names for 2023–2024 and 103 for 2024–2025.

We're not claiming a CRA social-equity license or a Detroit city award in this article. Divine Toke is a sun-grown organic cannabis farm rooted in Detroit, Michigan. We sell flower, 1g pre-rolls, and a 20-pack. If you want the shop, use the shop. If you want an equity license, use the CRA and city pages above.

What can I do this week if I care about equity? #

Search one shop name on the FY 2026 grant list, ask one ownership question, and buy something you'll actually smoke. If you have an old marijuana case, start with Project Clean Slate via the Office of Cannabis Affairs. One sympathy eighth is weaker than a monthly habit at a shop that can name its owners.

Yes, on the live CRA criteria page: 10% caregiver, 25% residency or misdemeanor, 40% felony. Confirm on the Social Equity Program page before anyone writes a check. Shops inside a listed community can keep the cut on all adult-use fees. Shops outside one get the extra cut for two years after licensure.

A Fall Check, Then a Regular Jar #

The equity promise is still a program this fall. Most Detroit counters still leave it off the ticket. The state ran another $1 million grant. The city is renewing licenses. The last official race-share is still 2020. Your job, if you care, is the boring one: look the name up, ask the question, spend like you mean to come back.

If you're curious to try sun-grown flower from Divine Toke, a Detroit-area Michigan farm, start at the shop. We sell flower, 1g pre-rolls, and a 20-pack (20 × 1g at $120). There's no equity cultivar on the menu. Smell the jar. Read the sheet.

I'll keep checking the CRA grant page and the city office when they move. If a Round 3 list lands, or CRA posts a new race-share, that's a new post. This one is the September 2026 board: a longer statewide grant list, a heavier wholesale tax, a city in renewal mode, and a counter that still won't label the night for you.

Until then, treat the program as homework, not as a halo.

Michigan still has the rules. Detroit still has an office. The jar in your hand still needs a name you can look up.

Keep these open if you want the longer chapters:

This article is for educational purposes only. It is not legal advice, licensing advice, or medical advice. Always confirm current CRA and City of Detroit rules on the official pages before you apply, spend, or plan a business.

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Detroit Social-Equity Check-In This Fall

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What Changed Since Last Year's Detroit Equity Posts? #