“US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive”
Translation: We’re moving big city liberal trash, gang bangers and fat welfare mommas to exurbia to destroy them next.
One issue missed here concerns deannexation. I recall seeing another story some time ago saying that Flint was considering deannexing certain neighborhoods. That’s fine — if there are large swaths of land with vacant buildings, and the owners are not paying property tax, then I can see bulldozing the land, especially if the properties have gone to tax sale and nobody buys them.
However if a parcel of land is deannexed, then the county rather than the city controls it.
Properties delinquent on property tax, especially vacant buildings, are at high risk of arson.
If the owner objects to his building being bulldozed, that is another story.