“...into a handful of desireable neighborhoods.”
I don’t know Detroit very well at all. I only know what I’ve read about here on FR.
Are there actaully some desireable or respectable neighborhoods in Detroit? I thought the entire city was pretty much a wasteland - except for the downtown area.
Detroit is confusing. There are multiple separate municipalities that exist next to or within Detroit - Royal Oak, Southfield, etc. which are acceptable to q1uite nice, but I think these are not part of Detroit proper.
Some areas within Detroit look like the shelled villages and towns of Belgium during WWI. I don’t know the details, the article spelled out an attempt to move people (voluntarily) out of the wasteland areas into better parts of Detroit.
Perhaps some Michigan FReeper can help explain it.
That's a really good question.
Downtown isn't bad. Palmer Woods/Palmer Park (Where Conyers lives), Rosedale Park, Indian Village area, and Boston Edison are upper income areas. I'll gaurantee that they aren't moving the relocation's there.
There aren't a lot of good working class areas there anymore. Some areas were always rough, but even Parkland has gone way downhill in the past 10 years.