Shrinking Detroit has 12,000 abandoned homes

AFP ^ | 08/14/05 | AFP

[Redbob]

Never has dawned on anyone there that the city income tax might be a contributing factor to the "white flight"...

Or perhaps the absolutely insane people elected to run the "city."

[BenLurkin]

Well, used to be the abandoned homes would get burned down on October 30th but the city finally put a stop to that (I heard)

[Rodney King]

"Suburbanites are taking the bodies of their relatives out of cemeteries because they're afraid to come to the city," Vogel said. "There are about 400 to 500 hundred (being moved) a year which shows you the depth of racism and fear."

Racism? You mean there actually isn't high crime?

[wbill]

"Suburbanites are taking the bodies of their relatives out of cemeteries because they're afraid to come to the city," Vogel said. "There are about 400 to 500 hundred (being moved) a year which shows you the depth of racism and fear."

I suppose that I'm very prejudiced against people that want to rob and shoot me. I don't like them at all.

[2banana]

Funny how nobody wants to live in the "most liberal city" in America...

[maestro]

....Shrinking Detroit has 12,000 abandoned.....HOUSES

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Lack of regional planning ?

[deadeyedawg]

Liberals have the "dodo touch". Everything the touch turns to poop. Detroit, Chicago, DC, LA, SF, Seattle...

anyone else see a trend here?

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Detroit was recently named the most liberal city in the country based on voting patterns. I guess voting Democrat has really paid off.

[Ken H]

I thought the War on Poverty was supposed to have fixed this sort of thing.

[longtermmemmory]

hmmm cities leaving in order to lower their tax base.

I wonder how many residential areas would like to "leave" a municipality.

Whould people really object if Detroit was UNincorporated?

[paul51]

The city should take large pieces of land by eminent domain, clear it and give it to entrepreneurs who promise to develop it along with incentives and/or tax breaks

[The Raven]

>>I guess voting Democrat has really paid off.

HA !!!!

[Clemenza]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1463549/posts

[Clemenza]

Duplicate thread.

[polymuser]

Detroit, a renaissance mixture of Democrats, unions, and victim-hood.

[longtermmemmory]

homes is better

Abandoned homes have not family gatherings.

Abandoned homes do not have children comming home from school.

Abandoned homes do not raise children

abandoned homes have no future.


abandoned HOUSES can be buldozed for a soon to be deserted Mall.

[Kay Ludlow]

Lack of regional planning ?

Well, if government doesn't plan how our resources are used, then you'll just end up with underutilized resources and sprawl. /sarcasm

[Dead Dog]

which shows you the depth of racism and fear."

PFffft...it ain't racaism, it is lawlessness, and if the criminals are black, so be it. Aint nothing to do with race.

.In his state of the city address, embattled mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said even if 10,000 new homes were built every year for the next 15 years "we wouldn't fill up our city."

Hey Kwame, lower taxes you dpsht! Who the heck names their kid Kwame? 10 to 1 odds they don't speak a lick of Swahili and couldn't find Uganda on a map.