Pretty much everyone disagrees with me but I personally think Detroit is in better shape for a recovery than many cities. They have the advantage of already being at the bottom.
They have light years to go but they have turned toward the more rational democrat choices in recent elections. Mayor Bing doesn’t get invited to union events because he’s no friend of theirs. Another sign is the skyrocketing justifiable homicide rate. People who are defending themselves are taking on major personal responsibility.
On the other hand there are constant enticements to toward liberal stupidity like farming in Detroit which is nothing more than a scam to collect billions in soil restoration grants.
Detroit has the same problem our areas that are “ripe for recovery” have in NJ: the working people fled, following the jobs, and as long as all that remains are government wards who can collect their welfare checks there anyway, nobody will expose themselves to the danger proximity to those people brings.
Asbury Park at the Jersey Shore was supposed to have such a rebirth, but they wouldn’t relocate the welfare locusts (and they’ve begun demolishing some of the half-finished buildings they heralded as signs of the revival 20 years ago). Parts of Jersey City HAVE had a rebirth, via gentrification and re-location.
...it took a hell of a lot of Leftist corruption and mismanagement to make it the monumental money pit it is today.
If the Detroit dumasses would just vote once or twice like they gots some damn sense Motown could recover and be a big boom town again almost overnight.
Detroit has no hope. Why?
Because there is no change in the business conditions. Let’s put aside the quality of life, crime and other issues for a moment that determine whether people want to locate there. Consider whether businesses want to locate in Detroit. Has anything changed that will attract businesses?
I don’t see it. No businesses, no jobs. No business base, no tax base, and so on.
You need enough of a tax base. Do they have that? Nothing else matters. Are there enough paying in to support the govt. that is paying out to those not paying in? Provide necessary services as well? I think there are cities out there beyond help. Compton is beyond help. They don’t have a tax base. They have recipients.