People are buying cheap property in Detroit thinking once the bankruptcy is over things will improve. But the biggest thing wrong with Detroit are the people who live there, and they aren’t going anywhere.
The problem is too many tax cuts for the consumers of city resources.
If people were charged a tax proportional to the burden they put on the city, the dead weight would have been evicted long ago.
Instead the city taxed the producers and gave a free ride to the consumers and government employees.
They would if all welfare benefits were turned off within the borders of Detroit, and you had to leave Detroit to get any.