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.
Are those sections paying taxes to the City of Detroit?
The real estate crash is changing things rapidly. I can get a house in Southfield and Redford for under 25K
My recommendation to those moving to Southeast Michigan. Stay North of 14 mile or West of Haggerty. Detroit's spreading out.
Well Psalm, I’m a former Michigan Freeper. Lost job, moved form one Socialist utopia to another (Maryland)
The city of Detroit is surrounded by Metro Detroit suburbs. Most of the immediate surrounding suburbs are older communities and are a few decades behind Detroit for not being very good places to live. TH enext ring can go either way. South of the city is old fashioned Blue Collar. North and west is for the most part very nice. Some extremely affluent.
The next ring contains two cities in the top ten safest list.
This plan is actually pretty sane. I used to do repair work on welfare houses in Detroit, 15 years ago and I said then that total destruction is really the only solution. Mayor Bing is a businessman who is not tied to political interests and seems to be making the tough decisions. While he will never bring Detroit back, I think stuff like this will at least make it habitable.