1.) 500,000 people in Wayne County are on food stamps.
2.) Take the "People Mover" in Detroit, it will take you though what I call the Canyons of Detroit. High rise upon high rise all empty. Rumor is, they are owned by old money waiting for the city to comeback.
3.) The Mayor is offering to pay families to move to higher densed areas of the cities because some are out in areas where the city can't afford to do anything, they don't have the resources to go to a street where only a few families are living and the rest is a ghost town.
4.) The cities 3% Income Tax doesn't help....
Makes sense. The population of Detroit today is less than 50% of Detroit's peak population.
Given the density of housing projects, I would guess that over 60% of the city's housing stock is abandoned or gutted.
“2.) Take the “People Mover” in Detroit, it will take you though what I call the Canyons of Detroit. High rise upon high rise all empty. Rumor is, they are owned by old money waiting for the city to comeback.”
I saw videos where people went into old office buildings. One was a smaller regional stock brokerage firm. It looked like they just left in the 1970s or early 1980s and left everything there. Like Chernobyl.
The high rises you refer to are office or residential? Old money? What old money is left? Ford family? They “ain’t” that rich anymore.
Unless the welfare parasites are moved out to say Chicago to kill that “host” - nothing will ever improve. Detroit could be turned into an adventure park for CCW people to explore on the People Mover. They could ride through, explore the city and have shootouts with gangs.
The fact is they are generally owned by the City, having been confiscated for non-payment of taxes.
Essentially, Detroit's economy is now non-existent. The only employers remaining are governmental -- meaning they consume tax money. There are no meaningful non-government employers -- meaning there is nobody left to pay the taxes that the government consumes.