[hcmama]

Amazing look at what Detroit once was and what it is today. Truly sad and frightening to see how steep the decline has been and how it occurred over a relatively short period.

[nathanbedford]

It is equally amazing, or should be but it is not, that no discussion in polite company can be conducted concerning the disintegration of Detroit-or virtually any other American inner city for that matter-that is not politically correct.

Until we can speak the truth, we cannot hope to cope.

[Frantzie]

The videos on YouTube are incredible. Americans traded liberty and freedom for a TV clicker.

[FreedomPoster]

>>Truly sad and frightening to see how steep the decline has been and how it occurred over a relatively short period.

It has been a 40 year plus slide. The city proper had major issues going back to the 1960s.

[sionnsar]

Amazing look at what Detroit once was and what it is today.

And yet... I was there last summer visiting a couple of suburbs just miles away where I lived in the 50s. Neither more than middle-class then, they're obviously a bit wealthier now -- even the cookie-cutter houses I remember from one then-new mass development have been cared for, improved and differentiated.

[Wuli]

Federal “urban renewal” or “affordable housing” funds should no longer go to such former “cities”. The money would be better spent helping residents escape/migrate to the areas with the lowest unemployment rates, best business climates, lowest taxes, most naturally affordable housing markets, etc - none of which would be Liberal run cities.