More than 40 years after her family was forced from their home, Sallie Sanders received the keys to a new house built to settle one of the longest-running cases of housing discrimination in the US.

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Hamtramck agreed in 1980 to develop 200 family housing units to make up for violating the civil rights of blacks whose neighborhoods were targeted by white officials to make way for urban renewal projects in the 1960s.

Hamtramck still hasn’t met that goal, although officials predict it will by next year. The city of 23,000 is now extremely diverse, with immigrants from the Middle East, Africa and Bangladesh passing by a statue of Pope John Paul II in the historically Polish community.

“Everyone here practices their culture without fear or hesitation,” said Shahab Ahmed, one of three Muslims on the city council.

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