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The current mayor, David Bing, who was elected in 2009, began tearing down abandoned buildings as part of a revitalization effort for the city, but he lamented what he called a sense of "entitlement" among some residents who he said were unwilling to accept painful moves, such as leaving homes in abandoned neighborhoods and helping repopulate other parts of Detroit.

Hmmmm.....

My family left (fled?) Detroit for the suburbs in ‘65 due to the deterioration of the city in terms of education and increased crime.

Then in 1967 Detroit burned itself to the ground. After that they were foolish enough to elect Mayor Coleman Young, a corrupt city councilman. From that point forward, 1972-73, Detroit entered a spiral death spin of mismanagement and corruption.
Mayor Young tried to revitalize the city with an empty slogan, “Renaissance”. well, it never worked.
Unfortunately, this curse upon Detroit was further reinforced by the influx of better cars from Japan after the 1973 Oil Embargo and Yom Kippur War between Israel and Egypt/Syria.

I left Michigan altogether in 1983 but it is a beautiful Great Lake state with so much to offer and yet, today, we see that it is all over for the city.

Maybe the city can sell off huge tracts of land and bargain prices and encourage investment in businesses or agriculture. The ONLY way Detroit will ever recover is to eliminate the crime fear. Until that happens, Detroit will remain in the Middle Ages.

An appropriate analogy for Detroit is the DEATH GRIP held by the Ford family on the Detroit Lions football team which has lost consecutively since 1958!!
Once they relinquish ownership, Detroit sports fans will be able to breath again and the team will begin winning. The same holds true about how the city is run. The Democrats have run it into the ground. Detroit needs new management, Republican management but the UNIONS will never budge so nothing will change as private sector employees have gotten used to handouts and entitlements while public sector employees have gotten used to graft and corruption, who's going to change that now?