Regrid logo, registered trademark
  • Enterprise

    Regrid premium parcel data menu icon Premium Parcels

    • US Parcel Data U.S. Parcels
    • Canada Parcel Data Canadian Parcels
    • global-icon Global Parcels

    Spatial add-ons menu icon Spatial Add-Ons

    • Matched building footprints menu icon Matched Building Footprints
    • Matched secondary addresses menu icon Matched Secondary Addresses
    • Standardized zoning menu icon Standardized Zoning
    • Enhanced property ownership menu icon Daily Ownership Updates

    road icon Roadway ROW

    • Roadway polygons icon U.S. Roadway Polygons

    Data access icon Data Access

    • data-store-2 Coverage Map
    • blog_resources_icon-1 Parcel Schema
    • Bulk files icon Bulk Files
    • Feature Service Feature Service
    • api-icon_2025 Parcel API & Tiles
    • API Sandbox icon Interactive API Sandbox
  • Data Store
  • Regrid App
  • Esri Users
  • Resources

    Support menu icon Support

    • Support site menu icon Support Site
    • Tutorial videos menu icon Tutorial Videos

    Content menu icon Content

    • Blog menu icon Blog
    • Customer stories menu icon Customer Stories
    • Reports menu icon Reports

    Programs menu icon Programs

    • academia_menu-icon Nonprofit & Academia
    • Regrid giving menu icon Regrid Giving
  • Contact Us
Contact Us
  • Enterprise

    Premium Parcels

    • U.S. Parcels
    • Canadian Parcels
    • Global Parcels

    Roadway ROW

    • U.S. Roadway Polygons

    Spatial Add-Ons

    • Matched Building Footprints
    • Matched Secondary Addresses
    • Standardized Zoning
    • Daily Ownership Updates

    Data Access

    • Coverage Map
    • Parcel Schema
    • Bulk Files
    • Feature Service
    • Parcel API & Tiles
    • Interactive API Sandbox
  • Data Store
  • Regrid App
  • Esri Users
  • Resources

    Support

    • Support Site
    • Tutorial Videos

    Programs

    • Nonprofit & Academia
    • Regrid Giving

    Content

    • Blog
    • Customer Stories
    • Reports
  • Contact Us
Michele Oberholtzer

Director of Tax Foreclosure Prevention, United Community Housing Coalition

This post is a part of our Mapping Stories series highlighting how people across the US are using property data

Michele Oberholtzer

“We help people keep their homes.”

 
Tell us a little about you — we want to know more about the work you do.

I lead the tax foreclosure prevention team at UCHC Detroit, which serves thousands of households across Detroit and Wayne County each year to retain homeownership for those at risk of foreclosure. I’m also a writer and an entrepreneur. Most of my career has been in the environmental sector – with a focus on renewable energy, efficiency, clean air, and water in Detroit, New York City, and Durban, South Africa.

 
What got you into your field? We want to get a sense of your journey.

I became obsessed with tax foreclosure as an employee of Loveland back in 2014. It was just a short-term job that changed my life by exposing me to the homes and people directly affected by tax foreclosure. I founded The Tricycle Collective very soon after starting my work with Regrid and continued that work on a voluntary basis for about 2 years until UCHC hired me to lead their tax foreclosure, prevention team. I am still very driven to do this work!

You can read more about me, my work, my writings, my quest for better property ownership in Detroit on my website, a story on The Moth, and in Hamtramck Love Letter.

 
hober2


“Regrid has been a great help for us. Collecting data at the parcel level has helped us to target
our work and increase our impact across a variety of different programs and engagements.”

 
We're sure you are able to help a lot of people through your work at UCHC. We want to learn more about it.

We help people keep ownership of their homes. We help people become the owner of the home they already live in. We help thousands of households each year and they often remain in their housing on a long-term and lifetime basis. The broader effect is more stabilized families, strengthened communities, generational wealth, and all the things that come with that.

 
How do you use Regrid?

We use Regrid to do door-to-door canvassing of residents of foreclosed homes to provide prevention and home-buying options.

Mail is fine, but there’s still nothing like a person-to-person conversation, Regrid helped us get from a massive list to a two-way interactive map that helps us get to people as efficiently as possible and keeps track of our Foreclosure prevention outreach. We also use the tool in our office to document home inspections and all repairs. We are always discovering other ways that it can be useful. Regrid is the land survey app tool we use to effectively gather and deliver information, it brings us to the homes of the people we serve, so we can help them keep those homes and prevent tax foreclosure.

Regrid as an organization has also been a great help for us. Collecting data at the parcel level has helped us to target our work and increase our impact across a variety of different programs and engagements. Every step of the way, the Regrid team has been there to support us. As we've increased our usage of the Regrid app, the Regrid team has added more features and data to help us be more effective and to make surveying more user-friendly for us and our partners.

MORE PEOPLE OF REGRID
Kelli_Chavez
large_atuahene-bernadette-portrait-2
large_giancarlo2
large_sills
large_76814229-98a48a00-67d0-11ea-8094-c1641cc308ff
large_Screen_Shot_2020-06-05_at_2.41.30_PM
large_isaac4
Daron_-_Daron_Sneed
logo

(888) 4RE-GRID

  • Contact Us
  • Customer Support
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use

Subscribe for email updates

Company

  • About Regrid
  • Careers
  • Press

Resources

  • Coverage Map
  • Support Center
  • Reports
  • Regrid Status Page

Enterprise Solutions

  • U.S. Parcels
  • Canada Parcels
  • Parcel & Tiles API

Self-Serve Solutions

  • Regrid Property App
  • Shop the Data Store
  • API Monthly Plans