If you can’t pay your property taxes, find out what you can do to avoid foreclosure

You might be surprised to learn that failure to pay your property taxes can cause your home to be foreclosed upon – even if you own your home or continue to make mortgage payments.  Don’t dispair.  Take these actions to help save your home:

• Get answers to Frequently Asked Foreclosure Questions and learn more about tax foreclosure
• Call the treasury department for your city or county
• Dial United Way at 2-1-1 or call these local organizations to see if you qualify for tax payment assistance

Treasury Department Contacts

CITY OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN
Request a hardship application
(313) 224-6674 or visit the Assessor’s Office located in Room 804 of the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center.
City of Detroit – Treasury Department

WAYNE COUNTY, MICHIGAN
(313) 224-6105 Taxpayer Assistance Dept.
Wayne County Treasurer’s Office

Local Organizations for tax assistance

Michigan Department of Human Services

DHS –Wayne County Division
(313) 456-1000
Call this number to get the address and phone number of your local DHS office.

Michigan Veterans Trust Fund, Wayne County Office

(313) 899-1162
If you are veteran with at least 6 months of wartime duty, you may qualify for financial assistance.

Wayne County Veterans Affairs (Soldiers and Sailors Relief Fund)

(313) 224-1862
If you are a veteran with any wartime service and an honorable discharge, you may qualify.

Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS)

(313)  842-7010
Help is available to those who qualify and is not limited to those of Arabic ethnicity.

United Way

Dial 2-1-1 or visit United Way 211
Information and Referral Service