Detroit city really is turning things around

[Voltaire 5,316]

How Detroit Came Fighting Back (city-journal.org)

The city has quietly had effective government for the past decade, ever since the bankruptcy. Mike Duggan has done a helluva job as have the various police chiefs of his tenure: Bettison, White, and Craig.

Granted Coleman Young was a forebearer of the cop-blaming, anti-white rage long before Black Lives Matter appeared on the scene. Detroit had been the poster child of incompetent big cities while he was mayor for five terms from 1974-94 but he's been dead for twenty years. While seemingly every other big city Democrat is copy-catting him into their own toilets, Detroit is climbing out of it. 

If you're looking for a poorly run, big city Democratic sh*thole, you have plenty of better options than Detroit these days. It might not even be Democratic going forward, Chief Craig is popular and is running for mayor as a Republican. Hopefully the black community continues shifting and waking up to what the Democratic Party has been selling them for generations. Finley: Will Detroit elect a Republican mayor? (detroitnews.com)

[MDC 7,428]

I’d read years ago they were basically giving houses away in some neighborhoods in exchange for upkeep and property taxes, and a few neighborhoods were turning into little artist conclaves. Any truth to that @Voltaire?

As the resident of another shiithole city, I’ve always felt a kinship with Detroit and I’m glad to hear it’s on the mend.  

[Voltaire 5,316]

9 minutes ago, MDC said:

I’d read years ago they were basically giving houses away in some neighborhoods in exchange for upkeep and property taxes, and a few neighborhoods were turning into little artist conclaves. Any truth to that @Voltaire?

As the resident of another shiithole city, I’ve always felt a kinship with Detroit and I’m glad to hear it’s on the mend.  

That use to be true but if it still is, I don't know. I doubt it as there's no need anymore. Home prices are rising again, the population loss stabilized a few years ago and is growing. Also, much of the blight has been cleaned up leaving vacant lots and blocks with only a few houses in them.

Detroit is not a vertical city. It spreads way, way out with rows of what used to be occupied one family homes on side streets that feed into the major roads. A lot of those homes went to blight and were removed, such that those formerly neat rows of homes are now more like a jack-o-lantern smile with empty lots and occupied houses mixed together.

[supermike80 1,911]

Detroit is doing great things in small batches. Good restaurants, bars etc.  Brings in the younger crowds, with a little disposable income. The little pockets start and grow.

Meanwhile the city has put real effort into fighting blight and crime.  Theres a lot of work left, detroit is a huge city by sq mileage, but its making great progress 

[kilroy69 1,251]

Dan Gilbert. That is why detroit is turning around. 

[Cdub100 3,909]

Fock going into the city.

[supermike80 1,911]

1 hour ago, kilroy69 said:

Dan Gilbert. That is why detroit is turning around. 

Id say Mike Duggan as well. 

[Frozenbeernuts 2,264]

3 minutes ago, Cdub100 said:

Fock going into the city.

This. I'm glad it's turning around but living in a big city is horrible.

[MDC 7,428]

2 hours ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

This. I'm glad it's turning around but living in a big city is horrible.

Some people aren’t cut out for it.

[easilyscan 925]

Not saying this is accurate, so please don't shoot the messenger.

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[weepaws 3,193]

7 hours ago, Voltaire said:

That use to be true but if it still is, I don't know. I doubt it as there's no need anymore. Home prices are rising again, the population loss stabilized a few years ago and is growing. Also, much of the blight has been cleaned up leaving vacant lots and blocks with only a few houses in them.

Detroit is not a vertical city. It spreads way, way out with rows of what used to be occupied one family homes on side streets that feed into the major roads. A lot of those homes went to blight and were removed, such that those formerly neat rows of homes are now more like a jack-o-lantern smile with empty lots and occupied houses mixed together.

What happen to the people that used to live on those homes that have been removed, homeless?