Amazing look at what Detroit once was and what it is today. Truly sad and frightening to see how steep the decline has been and how it occurred over a relatively short period.
Until we can speak the truth, we cannot hope to cope.
The videos on YouTube are incredible. Americans traded liberty and freedom for a TV clicker.
>>Truly sad and frightening to see how steep the decline has been and how it occurred over a relatively short period.
It has been a 40 year plus slide. The city proper had major issues going back to the 1960s.
And yet... I was there last summer visiting a couple of suburbs just miles away where I lived in the 50s. Neither more than middle-class then, they're obviously a bit wealthier now -- even the cookie-cutter houses I remember from one then-new mass development have been cared for, improved and differentiated.
Federal “urban renewal” or “affordable housing” funds should no longer go to such former “cities”. The money would be better spent helping residents escape/migrate to the areas with the lowest unemployment rates, best business climates, lowest taxes, most naturally affordable housing markets, etc - none of which would be Liberal run cities.