I was in Detroit briefly for a daylong seminar. On the way home, thanks to a number of highway exits being closed for construction, we got a tour of the city's more scenic neighborhoods. It looked like a neutron bomb had hit 30 years ago and no one bothered to repair the damage.
They need to get people to move back in if they want to save the city, problem is they can't wrap their minds around the fact that people move to where living is good and the taxes low.
back around 1970 I was in Sarnia Ontario and had to give a lecture the next day in Windsor. We drove over to Michigan and down to Detroit. We thought we'd stop for supper and a movie downtown. We parked at rush hour.
When we cam out of the movie Detroit looked completely deserted. A six lane road had NO traffic, none. It was as if the apocalypse had happened. This wa 35 years ago!!!