Shrinking Detroit has 12,000 abandoned homes

AFP ^ | 08/14/05 | AFP

[Dead Dog]

Poverty won due to superior tactics and a more coherent ideology.

[alloysteel]

Will the last person to leave Detroit please turn out the lights....

We shall have all this housing available for the refugees from Iraq that shall come swarming to our shores when the successor to President George W. Bush assumes office and summarily withdraws the US troops from the Middle East.

[Uncle Joe Cannon]

One day... ten, twenty, or maybe thirty years from now.. Detroit will turnaround and have an urban revival. And people will be saying "I wish I had invested in Detroit real estate in 2005!"

[Disambiguator]

Perhaps the biggest challenge to luring the middle class from the area's swank suburbs is overcoming racial tensions

I love these codified statements. The real issue here is black-on-white crime, but of course nobody is going to come out and say that.

[Tulane]

Good point...

[Ron in Acreage]

The legacy of PC multicultural liberalism reaps its rewards.

[BluH2o]

A few years ago my wife and I were visiting Detroit. Having
a little extra time we decided to drive over to the Grosse Pointe area and drive along Lake Shore Drive. This is an affluent area of Detroit with beautiful homes. We then drove west off Lake Shore to gain access to I-94. Just a few blocks in off Lake Shore Drive we drove thru areas that were completely blighted ... what struck us was the contrast between Grosse Pointe and the area immediately west of it ... the contrast was shocking.

[Tulane]

You might be right.

[Ron in Acreage]

socialists rejoice! it worked! Liberal democrats have done what not even the Klan could do.

[One Proud Dad]

"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."

We think alike. A few years ago we had a young man wearing the green, yellow, and red everyday to work. He was always talking activism stuff, blah, blah. One day I asked him what the colors stood for and he couldn't tell me. I said "figures" and walked away laughing. Just reaffirms to me that the black leaders ( not all of course I mean JJ and Al et. al. ) teach only what is necessary to cause unrest and unhappiness.

[Black Tooth]

You clearly have never been to these regions.

The west coast cities, LA, Seattle and SF are paradise compared to Detroit, Chicago, DC. I've recently been to all of them, and there is just no comparison.

The west coast cities are like shinning cities on the hill compared to the likes of Detroit.

[longtermmemmory]

I think regional planning translates to "keeping neighborhoods from abandoning the municipality of detroit."

I am sure the politicians are thinking they did not tax them enough.

[joesnuffy]

It's racism when you refuse to allow yourself to be attacked by perps because of their color...

Which of course we say is the reason you won't let perps of color attack you...

We demand that you allow perps of certain racial affiliation to attack you...& you will carry cash and you will not cancel your credit cards before 21 days post theft..

[deadeyedawg]

I've been there. Was born in the People's Republik of Kalifornia. Never been back after I PCS'd from Camp Pendleton.

I was referring to the high taxes, high crime, etc, inherent to a lib run area.

[Dead Dog]

How did the nice Mr. Keyes state it: "Race Baiting Poverty Pimps". That pretty much explains it.

A purchased army of chronically ignorant voters, midlessly sacrificing themselves at the alter of the Great Donkey. ...how I'd explain it with a touch of melodrama.

[JimRed]

Next step: encourage urban homesteading by well armed and trained veterans returning from the Gulf. Gentrify! This to preclude the Muslims from getting the same idea in motion. I'm surprised they haven't started it yet.

[JimRed]

The people who remain are mostly black -- 83 percent -- and mostly working class, with 30 percent of the population living below the poverty line according to the US Census Bureau.

I'll bet you two thirds of those below the poverty line are not "working class", but welfare. Until those who actually are working class stand up to the bums and the thugs and turn out the leftist politicos who enabled the downfall, nothing will improve. < /rant >

[Youngman442002]

The Conservitive city is Provo Utah..I think a study between the two is advised for the Democrats...maybe they could learn something.....Religion, family, schooling, job/work, all those ugly consertative ideas...oh and by the way..they work

[golfboy]

In the news last week, there was a story that Detroit is now the Most Liberal city in the U.S., followed by Gary, Indiana. On the "most conservative" side of the page was Salt Lake (or Provo) Utah - sorry for my forgetful memory.

Looking at the two lists, it amazed me to see the correlation between the most liberal cities, and the highest crime rates vs. the most conservative and the lowest crime rates.

Did anyone else pick up on that?

[The Duke]

Hey, why don't we just turn the entire city into a prison?
Oh...wait...it already is!