I find it so egregious when people say Detroit is becoming gentrified and people are being displaced. For many decades, most of the downtown area, midtown, corktown, river town, etc. were almost completely empty. Many of the buildings in these areas were abandoned or demolished over the years. Now they’re becoming more developed and people and businesses are moving in. So you can’t really say those neighborhoods are being “gentrified” when there were little to no people there to begin with.
booo! "little to no people" aka: people you don't care about or that aren't valued by our corporate system. Those places that seemed empty to you had people living there that couldn't afford to live elsewhere. I lived in the Eastern Market for 10 years, paying $750 a month for a place that could fit up to 5 people sharing the costs. Then I got gentrified out by Sanford Nelson. He bought up as much as he could with all of these ambitious plans, none of them have materialized and now they're just doing a flip on all the properties at a big profit. Many of the places that people got kicked out of 5 years ago haven't been occupied since! So the occupancy rate has gone down while the prices have gone up...
Gentrifying an area should be seen as a desirable thing that brings benefits but there is a peculiar form of snobbery that would prefer to see areas run down as being more desirable
@@amblincork If the people living in run down areas could afford to stay in those areas as they got nicer and more developed, then I wouldn't have a problem with it. That's not what gentrification is. The question is who benefits from development, and to what audience does that gentrification cater to? It's not the poor people who already live there. Saying gentrification should been seen as desirable is another way of saying "I don't care about poor people. They are not desirable."
@@MCAndyTWhy should anyone care about the poor? I’m sick of that attitude. People are poor because they made bad life choices, or were dealt a bad hand in life. Either way, they didn’t develop the skills for success. Somebody sees an opportunity to turn a $hit hole into a nice place and suddenly everyone cries for the poor who are displaced. Cry me a river. If the poor picked up a paintbrush or took pride in their neighborhood and exerted some modicum of effort to make their neighborhood a place that was desirable to live, they would make theirselves rich, and the opportunity for someone else to come in and do the same wouldn’t exist. There is a class that seeks to make things better and looks for opportunities to do that. And they get rich along the way. And there is another class that is lazy and wants to complain about everything and would rather live in squalor than lift a finger to change their predicament. Both classes deserve what they get. Nobody ever gave me $hit. I worked hard in college. Then worked hard in my career. Despite that, living in a high cost of living area, I couldn’t afford a house until the crash during the financial crisis, and even then I could only afford the bottom of the barrel. So I bought the worst house in a decent neighborhood, and spent nights and weekends turning it into the nicest one on the block. It’s called sweat equity. You get out of life what you put into it.
@@MCAndyT I have grown tired of the pseudo socialist babble about these areas - I used to live in one and now the areas has jobs, offices, homes and is the better for it
The bottom line is that suburban sprawl, and the infrastructure to support it, was completely unsustainable in Detroit. And that is important to understand because there are many, many, many other cities that built their suburbs this way, and just a bit of population and job loss in any of them could bankrupt them the same way Detroit was bankrupted. We need to build our cities smarter, denser, and more efficiently.
Denser cities are extremely problematic. Take a look at NYC and LA. Both have massive issues with homelessness, violent and traffic congestion. Humans being packed in next to each other so tightly is not good for a lot of reasons. This is the same philosophy the Soviet system used in a lot of their cities, and it was a proven failure.
Suburbs put a ton of financial strain on the cities they surround. Suburban sprawl is a financial death wish for the major cities that support them. Dallas and Houston are great examples
@@Astrobucks2 those cities are among the least violent large cities in the U.S. actually - and their homelessness issues stem from insufficient housing, not too much density. I urge you to study anything at all about urban planning before trying to comment on it.
Road systems cost far more to maintain than people realise - suburbs often lose money even when full. The tearing up of the tram system arguably quietly triggered the financial rot in Detroit.
Crime is a huge factor as are failing schools and family structures. People move out of declining inner cities because of declining life styles. As more properties become more run down and eventually abandoned tax revenues decline accelerating raising taxes and more properties being abandoned. HUD regulations do not help because of rules requiring full payment of money owed on sale or complete abandonment and stopping the payment of local property taxes.
These exact same dynamics have gutted urban areas around the United States. The way we've built our country around cars has resulted in all sorts of tragedies. I visited 7 countries in Europe back in the summer of 2003, and I was blown away by how futuristic and clean they were, especially the Germanic countries. Every little town in Europe is walkable and connected to bigger places by rail, so you don't get these isolated places where people are trapped by their lack of a car.
I think the idea of what’s futuristic differs. European cities are old and by nature they had narrow streets which forced them to build rail lines and mass transit but the advantage is that walkability is optimal and they have really nice urban spaces that foster communal living. Whereas here in the us futurism is seen as building individual spaces with the latest technology which is why you see many single family units(prolly more than any place in the world) with better built homes but that comes at the cost of walkability(I have found that US homes on average have much better facilities than their European counterparts with some exceptions). Owning a car is much easier here in the US. But I see change happening. We are building more public transit than in the last 40 years with more intercity rail projects also on the horizon. Walkable cities are gaining traction with cities like Minneapolis, DC, Chicago. Santa Monica, New York doing amazing work with road closures, cycling infrastructure, transit oriented development and the movement is gaining traction in places like Houston m Austin too. Things are only going to go up so be optimistic.
@@portcybertryx222The main difference between walkable cities in europe and cities in the us is that, even though there were plans for pretty much every city to tear down streets and buildings in order to build highways and parking places everywhere, many european cities dismissed them (look at Amsterdam its quite famous for that) US cities used to be walkable and had streetcars and all that good stuff but they had to go once cars got trendy
@@Manni4 yup very very true indeed. But tbf the streetcar network that the US had before was antiquated anyway and was a limiter to development in many cases. But in any case they should never have torn those down and modernised some important lines (which is what cities like LA are doing now). The worst part was demolishing cohesive neighbourhoods for building freeways and a real lost opportunity of converting the streetcar rights of way into exclusive bus lanes.
It's crime and the lack of law enforcement. No one wants to live in an unsafe area, no one cognizant anyway. Look at the mass exodus happening in NYC; is that because of cars?
I worked in/near downtown Detroit for almost 40 years. It was sad to watch it's decline. It was also aggravating to watch corrupt and bungling political hacks accelerate the decline.
Corrupt political hacks are what killed the city. The city itself had enough to maintain everything it was doing, but this flow of money changed and so too the population, quite naturally.
Jani my mom was born there and worked at the Vernor’s ice cream parlor. My uncle ran for mayor in the 60’s. Amazing city, but much of it didn’t go away, it just moved to the suburbs. I don’t have to mention Hudson’s. The downtown is reforming thanks to millennials from all over taking advantage of the cheaper housing. I think we are both glad to see the reinvigorated downtown. Detroit was one of the most impressive cities ever created. It’s got some of the most impressive suburbs too although they spread the attractions out now.
thank youuuuu. The came in and took advantage. And now they've been making a living off the poverty for so long (esp with the car insurance being the highest in the nation) they are millionaires and billionaires from it. Due to that its virtually impossible to undo the things they are doing. I believe they like it like this and will only allow so much success for the city to have. They don't want too much of it like it used to be let alone like some other cities, but they want to keep it this way because its profitable.
Detroit is like the city I Use to play in Cities Skylines and SimCity 2013. In the first few months, the city thrives exponentially. Then after a while it shows signs of problems in infrastructure. Later population starts to decline and finally I have to restart everything.
City Skylines in a nutshell: Having traffic Problems? Build a freeway Want to make any high density buildings? Freeway Want to run a train through the city? Nope, got to build that freeway. Want an airport? You guessed it freeway.
I recently decided I would try to live in downtown Detroit, only to find out that any one bedroom apartment (not infested by roaches) costs upwards of 1800 a month. I would love to be a part of Detroit's future, but there needs to be more affordable, safe, and clean housing in the city proper.
@@Shazzyhtown oh, I don't know if I would say it was safe. Definitely not safer then than it is now. Back then downtown pretty much emptied by 6 pm, except on the weekends. It was like a ghost town. If it was safe it was only because no one was around.
Because that would spoil their agenda. The last time Detroit had a Republican mayor was in 1962. There is no single person to blame. Crime, high taxes and car insurance, jobs leaving the city, decades of corruption and greed, what have you. For all intents and purposes, Detroit was doomed from the very beginning, by investing solely in auto manufacturing and little else. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Not saying the city cannot be brought back to its glory days, but as long as the people keep voting for the same policies that led the downfall in the first place, the city is a lost cause.
Trump pardoned the convicted former mayor of Detroit who was serving a decades long sentence in federal prison for corruption, for no apparent reason whatsoever. I wonder why Trump would help a convicted criminal who never gave back the millions he embezzled, out of jail decades early.
yeah the curruption of mayors and city officials dating back to the 1910's, especially those paid by the local orginized crime gangs like the purple gang and the italian mob.
This could be the biggest social urban experiment. Rework the whole city to be friendly to middle class. Construct affordable houses, rework mixed use areas so ppl depend less on cars, use technologies to make the city the city of future, improve roads to provide better public transportation.
Lol. This is a failed experiment. Detroit collapsed because of Democrat politicians. It can't be fixed by Democrat policies. San Francisco will be next.
Yes especially the part of making ppl depend less on cars is sooo important. Like take a look at many European or Asian suburbs, they have stores in neighborhoods which allows for ppl to only walk a short distance to get something as simple as milk. However in the majority of North America (Canada and US) if you live in the suburbs and don't own a car, you're basically screwed as most of the stores are on the main road or in a far distance. I really wish this would change as it could give the suburbs are more lively and fun feel, rather than isolated and inconvenient.
@@farzana6676 Yeah, cities like Amsterdam, Zürich failed tremendously! Imagine take the bicycle to do your groceries or being able to walk there! It's mind blowing for you probably
@@Holland1994D Lol, first of all Amsterdam is a drug infested red light district run by North Africans and Turks. In America you don't need to ride a bike to buy groceries. They get delivered to your door.
7:57 I like how she avoided saying schools, healthcare, infrastructure libraries etc etc, rather just softening the blow by saying pensioners and museums
Yet the video doesn't really touch on that. It uses it as the base of the video, but it's more of a jumping-off point to discuss the large problems facing Detroit. I-375 is really just the tip of the iceberg.
@@frankjones2521 Thumbs up, but I think you meant to say just "I work there", or "I actually work there". I don't think you could figuratively work there.
I loved visiting Detroit twice for car shows downtown. It was a blast. My grandpa was from Detroit and moved to the Dayton area to work for GM. I would love to go back to see more.
It's vastly different than it was 5 years ago. And will be even better in coming years. They have some issues to figure out (like affordable housing), but it'll be fine in the long run.
No, you wouldn't trust me. There are some nicer newer areas and things to do but it is not even close to safe. I've been robbed in broad daylight in a nicer area. I rarely go there anymore because it's so dangerous.
Don't forget to visit the acres and acres of abandoned property and buildings outside the downtown area. See one or two homes standing on one or three blocks of city streets. Make sure you have a full tank of gas before you travel through these vacant places that exist in the big "D." And carry a gun or two. Don't be a victim of crime that IS there in Detroit. Notice that new housing is being in the downtown area. Putting people in shoeboxes instead of putting people in actual homes. There's no grocery stores in the downtown area like Meijer or Kroger. Dan Gilbert, Chris Illitch, and Billy Ford are building a new Emerald City just like in the movie The Whizzard of Oz. It's all smoke and mirrors, folks. The big three of Gilbert, Ford, and Illitch are just ripping off the Detroit citizens using eye candy. They are only in it for making more money on the backs of people who can't really afford to live there in the downtown area. It's a big money trap. 💰 Big scam.😮
A City isn't just a Downtown, an attraction, a venue, a tourist spot, a sporting event...a City is its people, and if Detroit continues losing population then it will continue to fail as a workable city for the majority of its residents. Who REALLY benefits from all these grandiose plans? The investors, politicians, city planners, certain business people & social engineers. Invest in affordable housing, sanitation, public safety, reliable public transportation...invest in the cities core neighbors. Invest in people...not places.
@@a.b.g.8490 Will is surely talking about things like improved education and improved transit in the residential neighborhoods, which leads to access to better jobs. That results in a better economy and potentially less crime.
i believe the "Real" movers and shakers behind the scenes actually like the city like this. They came in decades ago when the city was very looked down upon as well as going thru a hard time and were allowed to flourish and now they are billionaires. A lot of the abandoned messed up properties all around the city, in neighborhoods too, are owned by millionaires and billionaires. So now any real changes people want to do they have to deal with them. Let alone the politicians that hated the city like L. Brooks.
I've visited Detriot in 2019 because Motown Studio Museum was on my bucket list. I've seen the abandoned communities in the outskirts but it if you will just wander around the downtown area it was actually pretty nice and relatively clean. I felt safe walking around. They have nice museums, beautiful skyline, the river park was stunning and the Greektown was very charming. Just comparing the downtown Detriot in other US cities I think Detriot has a lot more to offer. It was worth a visit.
Haha you saw only a small pocket within the city. If you drove around a different area at a different time of day you would not be saying that. If you go to the east side at 3am you better be wearing your bullet proof vest. And how many "Greek" restaurants did you actually see in "Greektown"?
@@rockys7726 he never said it was a nice area outside the tourist downtown zone… I’ve walked around Detroit a lot. A lot of people are still afraid but they also never go to the city unless it’s a sporting event and then they peace out immediately.
I lived in the greater Detroit area for one year. Even though the metro center was in decline, I loved my time there! The former culture was still present. I wish Detroit and the people of Detroit well!
In 2022, Detroit is the comeback city and it's River Walk has been named the nation's finest 2 years in a row. Time magazine has named Detroit one of the 50 best places to visit in the WORLD! The negativity about Detroit is a tool for exploitation for profit!
@@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComeback Ah thank you, Frankai. And I just saw that the Gucci store has just opened on Library street. Gotta save my money and buy something. Lol. Maybe a shirt.
Grew up a few miles north of the east side. Back in 09 I worked for a company cleaning out abandoned and foreclosed homes in the city. Cleaned a gorgeous old home. 8 or 9 beds and as many baths. For less than $10k, I considered buying and fixing it up for my family, until the neighbors warned me about the taxes. Neighbors had houses half the size and paid nearly $4k a year for property taxes. For comparison, the house I bought a few miles away in Eastpointe was $1,500. Smaller home to be fair, but the ridiculous taxes in Detroit have choked out any possibility of keeping the citizens it claims to care about.
Install and maintain your own power and sewer, hire private security, and pray your house don't catch fire (no private fire departments in most places) and then tell me an 8k tax bill (on a mansion, no less) is a bad deal.
Detroit needs to cut taxes and deregulate almost everything before anyone realistically invest in the city. Right now if you want to build a factory in the city it can take 2 years to grab permits. That's insane. Than another year or 2 to build. Meanwhile in Texas for example Tesla got permits in 2 days and built it's factory in 9 months.
@@danrook5757 but humans only think In one generation . A city or country must constantly improve without any dip or people just leave . Nobody is like I'm going to move there because it's cheap and in 30 years if we all work together it could be nice . No people be like I'm going over here where it's allready nice .
lost me at “construction work could kick off by 2027”. my life is going to be halfway done by the time these urgent infrastructure projects will be complete…
In the Detroit-dirty-democrat style, They will double the construction timeline, and quadruple the budgets to drain the working class, and profit their crony's no-bid CONtracts.
@@tomstevens7452 i mean either gretchen whitmer is elected and it takes 7 years just to start construction or a republican is elected and they most likely just build even more highways if anything changes at all. neither is a win lmao
which means they won't happen, basically. This has been going on for years even before covid. And too when would it finish? As long as they NEVER let the company or companies that are doing the i75 work do it then ok. But i imagine it taking years to do it right.
I was born, grew up and lived in Detroit from 1965 till 1998. I watched my city destroyed by corruption, greed, rampant crime, race issues, gangs and finally, financial collapse. I am ashamed of what was allowed to happen to a once thriving city. Personally, I feel that the beginning of the end for Detroit came in the form of the corruption founded in the 20 year long administration of Coleman A. Young, and the subsequent administrations influenced by him. Other cities across the country need to study Detroits rise and fall and avoid the many mistakes that were made.
Actual real elections would fix Detroit and less indoctrination keeping the poor on the plantation and part of the tax base that benefits unfortunately the poor and middle class everywhere is under attack for a new system that removes vehicles and takes property ownership away. This sounds like a test market the fed reserve ready to loan out of thin air 20 years everyone will be upside down on the dole crammed into a mixed use nightmare.
The downfall started way before Coleman Young. 1967 riots FREAKED people out - white and black (I was there, I'm an old man.). The whites fled to the suburbs, true. However, the up and coming black middle and upper classes fled to Atlanta. There were many black professionals that saw the riots and decided NOT to raise their families there.
I'm always in support of removing interstates, but this all comes across with a very top-down, public savior like attitude. Minneapolis has removed their single family home zoning laws, allowing ground up development of ANY kind and systemically relieving the affordability problem through that one smart and unselfish move requiring zero funding. Why is that possibility not even mentioned for Detroit?
With little knowledge of Detroit zoning/real estate demand I would imagine if people are leaving the city there literally isn’t enough demand for a wide scale upzoning to take place. If parts of the city with higher density zoning aren’t being built on, I don’t see why the thousands of abandoned lots would suddenly be developed given an up zoning. I do think up zoning the city would be good, but the city also just needs to be more desirable to developers as well.
@@tfhorsch4527 fixing past mistakes is expensive too. if you upzone you need to build the city smaller. hence fixing the Infastructure. to upzone you need to demolish a lot,and I think demolition gets pricey. regardless, I can't wait to see. the faster they finish the better.
@@tfhorsch4527 the whole point of mixed used zoning is that you can build anything you want, so if you’re not limited to building just a single family home, and nothing else. People and businesses are not limited, and can build other things like triplexes, ground floor businesses with upper floor housing, office spaces, the idea of being able to build what you want isn’t commonplace considering the majority of land dedicated to any sort of development is almost always just single-family housing, which is apparent in the supply crisis happening right now in America which is driving up housing costs (along with other factors of course)
Minneapolis has a surging migrant crisis that has been occurring for over a decade. These are low-skilled, low-wage workers that the city needs to house. So of course the city wants to get rid of single family zoning so they can get as many apartments as possible to house them. Minneapolis has been making poor decisions for it's citizens for nearly 20 years and within the next 20 years it will resemble Detroit in the 1980s.
@@jj4ester366 you framed that as if mixed zoning for people that need housing is a bad thing to invest in, considering the housing crisis supply crisis right now where housing isn’t being built at the rate of demand, that’s a good thing. Development should also exist to bring careers into a neighborhood, they aren’t mutually exclusive to mixed used zoning, mixed use means you can just build whatever you want, whether it be a business, or a house, or both at the same time, rather than it being separated in which people have no other option but to invest in a car, and drive to somewhere to get to work rather than getting somewhere however they please. Besides zoning, you need proper education, to learn skills needed to get to high paying jobs, which Detroit is investing in along with the businesses for people to go to, and is doing the best a cash strapped city can do considering it has to use its money to demolish entire structures that aren’t used any more, and maintain infrastructure for a city built for 2 million, for a population of a few hundred thousand. Rome was not built in a day, it will take decades
Did I miss the part where they discussed tearing down highways? lol. They discussed the problems 375 caused, but then ... nothing. I had to look up a separate article to find out that they're actually planning to deconstruct 375 and turn it into a boulevard.. something this video didn't even bother mentioning as far as I saw...
Despite all this, Detroit is still a very underrated city that maybe one day will overcome its image the media portrays it as. It's not perfect, but it's improving
Its glory is in the past. Media outlets now are promoting Detroit meanwhile irl no one would ever move here from elsewhere. Crime and trash schools will never appeal to any average american
Detroit wasn't unlucky, you had people in power deliberately selling the city to businesses that shipped jobs overseas. With fewer jobs, the citizens (as shown in this video) either protested or left to start new futures elsewhere altogether. Less people means less taxes which means less services and things drag down from there. Don't forget how this started. In San Francisco, where I'm from, it's a blight of gentrification. Nobody can afford to live here but millionaires. They sold the city to corporations and tech companies.
@@jacobzindel987 it's a two party problem not just a Democratic Party problem. You don't have these systemic problems in countries with parliamentary governments!
But they didn't ship the jobs overseas, at least not in the period of the largest downturn. They shipped them to other states where governments gave incentives to build plants so politicians could campaign on how they brought jobs to the state. Meanwhile, Wayne county constantly raised business taxes and the UAW mad it the most expensive place to hire a worker. It wasn't cheap labor in other countries that killed Detroit, it was cheap labor in other parts of the US, and government policies that encouraged businesses to move anywhere else. Most of them just moved 10 to 20 miles away to cities like warren and sterling heights in Macomb and Oakland counties that had tax policies that actually encouraged businesses. It wasn't until the 90's that global trade actually started moving those jobs to other countries.
Detroit needs mixed-use dense walkable neighborhoods. Sprawling car dependent suburbs have high infrastructure costs for low rates of return. If they build more highways and suburbs, they'll simply be repeating the mistakes of the past.
The Strong Towns mentality! My friend lived where commercial spaces existed under multi-level apartments and duplexes. All parking was done in a partial underground and surface level garage. The benefit is that everything there was walkable and contained quite a few things. You didn't really need to drive much. It seemed like a good concept and was pretty nice.
Exactly. The longer we keep looking at Detroit as the shining jewel of the state like it used to be, the longer it is gonna take us to realize the reality that it is just the stinking butthole of the state
I've always wondered if they should just let the city shrink. Maybe even let the surrounding open areas become rural farming areas and maybe even get annexed into the neighboring Michigan towns. Maybe it could be the first time in history when an area changes FROM a city, BACK into farmland, instead of the other way around. Has that ever happened anywhere in the world, in the past 200 years?
The only issue is that you would have to dig up a ton of infrastructure and possibly decontaminate the soil before it becomes remotely viable to farm. However abandoning some of the overbuilt infrastructure or ideally destroying it and then letting nature reclaim it may be needed to balance out the city's ledger. Degrowth is hard but may be needed to let the city recover and regrow.
All through the 70s we'd watch homes get bulldozed and debris (lead, asbestos, etc) filled the abandoned basements. Dirt was then piled on top and grass planted. Farming this land will just create another generation of cancer victims.
All through the 70s we'd watch homes get bulldozed and debris (lead, asbestos, etc) filled the abandoned basements. Dirt was then piled on top and grass planted. Farming this land will just create another generation of cancer victims.
I don't know much about the history of Detroit besides what's in this video and news over the last 5-10 years, but I think a huge factor was Detroit's inability to adapt to changes and diversify their economy to other things besides car manufacturing. this is true in so many other places (cities, countries) around the globe. "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" sort of thing. Best luck to the sisters and brothers in Detroit.
Detroit is in a tricky spiral. It developed infrastructure for a city of 2M people based on the height of the domestic automobile industry. Since 1950, the auto industry died and Detroit experienced a population decline of 65%. Its problems outsize its means.
Pretty much but there is more to it. It used to be nice but once it started going downhill it went downhill very quickly. I think it's beyond saving at this point even with the new additions. I'd live there if it was even close to semi safe. I've been robbed in broad daylight in a nicer area so no way! I can't.
As a native Michigander, You nailed it. Though this wasn’t always the case. For many decades Detroit use to manufacture so many other things other than cars, but as those jobs started to leave, the people and money went with it.
Car manufacturing was a great source of employment for the people of Detroit. They usually paid above market average and had Unions and pensions. Outsourcing these manufacturing jobs destroyed what made Detroit so great in the first place.
Agreed, it’s one of the other. Improve and watch new companies and educated upper class professionals displace some of the poor. Or let it stay a gangsters paradise.
@@lowrider94ss This is something your mom should have taught you. If you dislike the run down part of the city but like the low rents and opportunity for larceny. OK but you can’t also what improvements that come with higher rents and property taxes and costs these in turn force out residents who can’t afford the new higher costs.
I recently visited Detroit, it is an amazing place to visit despite the past challenges and stereotypical attitude....lots of constructions ,art deco structures .... hopefully it keeps its rising 🥰
Detroit is an armpit. A little visit doesn't give you enough time to see the real side of the city, which is rampant crime and racism like you've never experienced anywhere else.
The only thing propping it up is outside money. The problem are the majority of its residents. They're violent, willfully uneducated, and hate to work.
I've never been to the US, but I would think that if the city took the opportunity to plant signficant numbers of trees and turn land over toe forrested parklands, then the city would become very attractive for many people who want to live in a green urban environment.
I was just in that part of Detroit last year. Right where the Lions and Tigers play. Really clean, booming downtown area. I loved seeing the classic Cadillacs driving through the streets. Even the latest Escalades, Tahoe, Suburban, lincolns, Chargers, people in Detroit car wise have it good. It's also really diverse where I was. Go West of that, it's a different world. Really sad to see these living conditions. That city has real potential to be one of America's greatest cities if the city leaders knew how to clean up and actually focus on economic growth. I'm in Chicago, I know what it's like to live and work under horrible leadership. Give it 10 years, I say Detroit will be a top 10 American city.
Eh, maybe 15 years. It'll take a bit for Detroit to come back from the mismanagement of the late 90s and 2000s. That more than the Recession of '08 hit the city hard. I watched it happen from just 30 minutes outside the city. Was so very sad. I'm proud to say I come from Metro Detroit though. We got alot of pride up here, and it's what's kept us going all these years.
They like living that way and resist all attempts at civilization. The problem with Detroit are its people. Their representatives ~fiercely black, always Democrat~ are the reason why it's a dump.
@@Stargazzer811Imo the early 1980s hit the city the hardest, we had a energy and oil crisis, 15% inflation and 16% interest. Detroits metropolitan area didn’t start to decline until the 1980s.
Chicagos problem is more of the state governors if you south of chicago the roads suddenly become horrible and you get blasted by potholes. Thank god Im in Indiana now, Indiana at least cares to fix it’s roads and it has had major road spending since the mid 2000s fixing the roads.
I hope Detroit makes a comeback. My dad grew up there in the 70s and left because he joined the military, but for some reason he still wants to go back. There is a lot of good in Michigan and in Detroit, specifically. People have to work together to make it happen. I wish my dad could go back, but he's been rooted here in California since before my birth when he met my mother. Now the three of us want to appease that homesickness he has, but it's difficult. Detroit needs to make a comeback, because it will show all of us that just because you file for bankruptcy, it doesn't mean there is no room for growth. If individuals can get back on their feet, imagine what a city can do.
Born and raised from the D. The blacks created this city and now that the white man has came to build back better, the black man wants to complain again? They like the way they made our city. Never forget '67 Never Forgive '67
My dad came of age in Detroit in the '30s - '40s. One time in the 90s, he took me around downtown and pointed out all the changes that had happened since then. It was sad, but it doesn't mean that Detroit is doomed. It was a great city then and it can be again.
@@thepatriarchy819 It's amazing that social media continues to provide a megaphone for ignoramuses and haters. This is a problem that damages the country as well as Detroit.
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First off, leave highway. Secondly cant complain about ppl moving from city AND complain about gentrification. You either want ppl to live there or not
The gentrification problem in Detroit is in the neighborhoods that held on through all the bad years and are now seeing moneyed people come back and just buy up their community. The money needs to develop the empty areas, not the ones that the community kept civil.
A city is a construct of the people that live there. Detroit can only bounce back if many quality people (200,000?) bounce back to Detroit and the criminal element is removed. Having lived there in the 50s and 60s, I don't see that happening. There's lots of better places to live.
The criminal element will not be removed. This is a large city and this is america. You can reduce the problem. You don't think that 200,000 quality people would move to this city? That's crazy.
What’s important is to make Detroit NOT dependent on one major industry like was in the past. Detroit should be a place where various industries are developing so in case one industry goes down, the city would not go down too.
In absence of a dominant American auto industry, Detroit needs to capitalize on its international riverfront, Great Lakes trade, and central geographic position on the North American continent in order to succeed. We have to remember that Detroit historically succeeded as gateway connecting midwestern industries to Canada, Upstate NY, and the Atlantic. However, this attribute key to Detroit's relevance is hugely glossed over in the current day. With regard to trade infrastructure, Detroit still has only one international bridge (privately owned), a downtown tunnel, and a seriously outdated rail tunnel. It is said that because of the Jones Act, there is little incentive to make the St. Lawrence seaway passable for modern container ships and ocean liners. Also, mass transit between Detroit and Windsor is nearly nonexistent, not to mention the great opportunity that would be connecting passenger rail service from Buffalo, NY and Quebec City to Chicago. All this would turn Detroit into a major metropolis. People and goods would flood into the city, making it perhaps more attractive than Chicago for attracting international business, as well as manufacturing due to lower transportation costs and "direct access" from the Midwest to Canada, New York, Europe and the Mediterranean. However, these neighborhood improvements and freeway removals are still long overdue. I personally see that the freeways have turned Downtown Detroit into a fortress completely detached from the rest of the city and I'd like to see more continuity in Detroit's urban fabric. Also, the Gordie Howe Bridge is sure to stimulate investment and I am excited to see how that turns out. However, I am doubtful that more freeway dependent trucks and cars are really what the city needs.
If it’s any sign, the 2023 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation is being hosted there. And as far as I can tell there are only good things being said of it, including from APEC’s website; ““Detroit represents the story of United States’ economic revitalization, transformation and resilience,” said Matt Murray, US Senior Official for APEC. “Detroit showcases the importance of cross-border trade with our neighbor, worker-centric trade policies and an advanced manufacturing industry, making it a perfect location for highlighting economic inclusion and innovative growth.” “We are committed to being a good steward of APEC to promote an international economic policy that boosts prosperity both at home and in the region,” Murray added. “APEC has delivered success stories in the past three decades and we want to build on this momentum.””
This is the perfect opportunity to fix so many issues american cities suffer from. Detroit could be redesigned to be a walkable city. Removing the highways and implementing public transit could be highly benificial to Detroit and its citezens.
Walkability, and public transport, are the way of the future. This is Detroit's chance to move to a European way of life and become a model for other cities.
Detroit is still beholden to failed policies and hasn't changed the political corruption or processes that keep good businesses out. My son's company just moved to a suburb of Detroit after 50 years in Detroit because of regulations and taxes.
I know...crazy how people who live in major cities think that overtaxing businesses, forcing equity on all contracts, and enabling soft on crime policies will make any city, let alone, Detroit, better......
@@junsu21 I live in western Mass and our roads are terrible BECAUSE of the Big Dig! All the available state funds went to fund continuous cost overruns in the Big Dig! So while they have more available land in Boston and a nice infrastructure, we in the REST of the state helped to pay for it by having our necessary projects delayed or cancelled! Boston truly is the hub of our universe in New England!
No mentioning of the crime rate of Detroit. How about do something about that first, before thinking of building this or that. Doesn't matter what you built if crime rate is high.
Detroit needs to invest in public transportation. It’s too car dependent. A subway system would bring people into the city and give it an additional economic boost
In 2022, Detroit is the comeback city and it's River Walk has been named the nation's finest 2 years in a row! Time magazine has named Detroit one of the 50 best places to visit in the WORLD.
Being a long resident of the city, I can tell you everything about it, and it is a very strange place, the city and its surrounding regions are very interesting, there isn't a lack of things to do for residents and people visiting from ohio, indiana and Ontario, but on the flip, it is a dangerous city because of the thousands of people roaming around with illegal guns committing car jacks, freeway shootings, break-ins, and just causing havoc to citizens, the suburbs are absolutely safer, although some crimes happen there as well. Commuting is a breeze because the traffic flows without all the congestion like in Chicago, NYC or Atlanta, but when traffic does get backed up, drivers become very impatient aggressive and dangerous because we're not used to just sitting in traffic, we're the motor city and like to keep moving. As for the taxes, its insane now, I pay 1900.00 a year to city taxes as a 1099 worker, then around 1800.00 to the state of Michigan which the two are consolidated now so it is just one bill, but that's a lot to pay outta pocket every year. The city has no problem snatching your home property from you for unpaid taxes, get just one year behind and they'll start talking about taking it from you. Energy costs are high, because of the heat you need for winter, and the cool you need throughout the summer. Corruption is high still, even after the bankruptcy and house cleaning, there's still work to do. Police service is horrible, they are trying but they can't keep up with the high crime rates. Three reasons I want to move away is the crime, taxes and brutally cold winters, four months of brutal cold is enough to leave, but I lived down south for one year and experienced all seasons, and the heat was unbearable. There's lots of construction everywhere, even into the residential areas, the city landscape is urban, suburban and rural all within its limits, totally surrounded by built up suburbs. Finally, people always have the wrong perception of Detroit, it truly is no different that what is going on an many other American cities, and people will argue with me about it, oh its cold, oh its high crime...thats all you got coming from a place like Houston, Atlanta, LA, SF, Minneapolis, Seattle, I'll take Detroit any day over these places
The crime has skyrocketed in Atlanta because of people from the "North" moving To the city and the surrounding suburbs. Detroit, Wisconsin, Chicago, Ohio Indiana, New York, Philadelphia Pennsylvania. One thing about if you come to Atlanta or to the South. You commit a crime you are going to jail for a Very long time that's if you don't get killed 1st In the Streets of Atlanta, Everybody has a gun just like a cell phone.
thats the DEM party playbook. Those that remain are controllable and dependent on the politicians. The people then demand non-enforcement of crime and more handout programs.
DETROIT MICHIGAN is making a huge huge come up. It’s affordable and hip. Downtown is now desired to live and businesses are going up like crazy. Move out of NYC!!! Invest here!!
From my first visits to Detroit in 2014 to now, it is astounding how far the city has come. From Ford investing into a downtown historical structure, to small business calling Detroit home, it is humbling seeing this great Michigan city grow once again! I hope Detroit finds an identity that works for the future, just like Pittsburgh did. I do hope Detroit does hang on to some of its older buildings! These were some of the first high-rises in the world!
The problem is Detroit has so much more developable land than Pittsburgh. The scale of the solution needed in Detroit is just massive and it's hard when your city is run under a monoculture of a political party with a long track record of historical corruption.
@@StochasticUniverse10 or 15 years ago they said Pittsburgh's economy was all about education and medical. Now it's technology, education, medical, and finance most likely in that order.
Detroit is one of my favorite cities to visit in the United States. I been to the motor city twice and the city is rich with history and architecture. When I took my mom to my second visit, we volunteered to help plant trees in the city to help this neighborhood with these vacant homes. This city will always hold a special place and I considered moving there to continue to help the city.
That's nice of you but it seems beyond saving. It is not safe. Sure it has history all cities do but most of it is rotting or has been torn down. It used to be really nice a long time ago then it quickly went to hell. I'd live there if it was cleaned up in all areas and if it even close to kind of safe but it just is not. I fear just visiting. I've been robbed in broad daylight so it really is rarely worth the risk and that makes me sad because there are things to do and some nice restaurants and businesses but too much of the city is a hell hole. And idk how it can possibly be returned to a new version of what it once was.
That problem laid with the maintenance costs to constantly replace the damage vs the cost to make a decent place to live to start with when people had no skin in the game or looking death in the face of they said anything or helped the police remove the crime.
It's the people who refused change for a better life. Just went there in July. It's has so much potential, but it's hot mess express. And the amount of regulation that prevents outside investment ensures it will never grow.
ILOVE DETROIT! always wanted to work and live downtown. yeah, it's not what people hear and see on TV. it's a great place where you never know what kind of surprises you'll see, but in a good / weird way. it's the cities character though. I'm glad to see it getting better. still a lot of progress to be made but progress none the less.
I'm definitely on board with the Detroit comeback. Even right now, there's a ton of fun to be had. My 1 concern is how to keep housing still attainable for current residents. Maybe you increase supply by fixing many abandoned units rather than new construction unless you're looking at full neighborhoods that have already been bulldozed. Many individuals are doing this but there's not enough focus outside of Downtown for me.
@@katjerouac As long as the ruling administration is in its current form nothing will change. They’re still back at square one with revenue issues. The main competition is the suburbs and they’re just quite frankly better run.
@@buzzfeedright4154 problem is that the suburbs ARE subsidized by the city. They tend to have all the perks and not the responsibility of paying for utilities.
Affordable housing combined with restructuring the economics of the city around more than just cars. Detroit needs to invest in small businesses. Build the city from the ground up and not just cater to big corporations.
@@ianhomerpura8937 People would wanna live in the city due to the location if it was ran better they would. There’s plenty of room for the type of suburban sprawl that they’ve become accustomed to over generations. Corruption prospers at every corner that’s what stops them from doing it, and I don’t see that changing any time soon unfortunately.
I moved from California to Detroit due to cost constraints about 2 years ago ($600 sq ft for a shack in SoCal wasn’t in the cards). Having lived in downtown San Diego and San Francisco for a number of years, I can say that Detroit isn’t too far away from either of those cities. It’s actually closer to the SD Gaslamp at the beginning of its renovation around the turn of the century. SD and SF both have major issues with gentrification and have pockets of squalor just like Detroit. The difference is that Detroit is improving while California major cities are deteriorating. Not to make this a California v Michigan thing; just stating the obvious and not to judge a book by its cover that you haven’t opened since the HIV/AIDS crisis in the early 90s.
Instead of tearing down an expressway and rebuilding it in a different way, use that money to create affordable housing and new neighborhoods. Nostalgia is not a good reason to waste taxpayer money.
Actually, I-375 is a 1.5 mile highway that serves virtually no purpose. Most of our highways are built in trenches in Detroit & serve as physical barriers to different neighborhoods. The removal of I-375 will physically reconnect the near-East Side neighborhoods of Lafayette Park, Elmwood Park, & others to Downtown. The highway is just about at the end of its life cycle anyways, as it was built back in the 50’s, so tearing it out and building rebuilding a surface street will be a better long term benefit.
Actually, they should replace it with a “woonerf” th-cam.com/video/4SHkp_Agzx8/w-d-xo.html This video shows a good example of good street design with cars still able to access their streets.
they are not proposing tearing them down just to give back to communities that were destroyed it will also serve a purpose of getting people to move into the area to help grow the city. No one wants to live around noise and traffic pollution.
@@giths19 When in Detroit years ago I marveled at what a rundown hole it was, pothole streets, etc. BUT, it had one sparkling smooth six-lane superhighway going directly from downtown Detroit to The Suburbs and also had the COBO hall...
For any of you whom have truly visited the Detroit neighborhoods- not just downtown or little trendy hamlets- there is truly no where to go but up. So the idea to me, that they would be displaced or priced out, is a problem I would personally rather deal with than living in crime ridden areas where sometimes there are 20 abandon houses and 2 inhabited houses on an the whole street. And no, I am not kidding. This exists. All we know is what was tried before, didn't work- for DECADES. Time for something new.
There are untold Acres in the city of Detroit that are just blocks and blocks of empty lots. Look at the area around 2126 Pierce Street and try to tell me who would be displaced by building there.
@@d3athmak3r3 Good point. Most them were just abandon homes that were eventually razed. What they did consider a problem at one point was that you'd literally have streets with just one house, which isn't very cost effective for maintaining infrastructure (water, sewer. trash). So there was discussion about consolidating homes (this was maybe 10-15 years ago). but then you would be displacing people, so I don't think the idea got very far.
The crime has left those empty areas now too. Crime needs people to steal from, and where there aren't any people, the only crime is when the wild dogs rob a chicken coop.
@@FlanaFugue This is true to a degree, but not in all cases. Some of the those areas still have abandoned houses that squatters and addicts move into and commit plenty of violent crimes amongst each other and anyone unfortunate enough to wander through. This is why you want to be extra careful about not getting lost in those hoods- because the ONLY people there now are dangerous and there is no one there that's going to witness it or help you, so it becomes even worse. My buddy flagged down by a woman who appear to be next to a broken down car in one of these areas with almost no one around. When he rolled down his window and asked her if she was ok, he was met at the passengers side window by a man with a gun and was robbed. He was lucky that's all that happened,
The comments section have made it blatantly obvious than 95% of you commenting have never been to Detroit & this video does a poor job of illustrating the progress the city has made post-bankruptcy. Yes, the city is far from perfect, but it’s come along further than what this video is trying to exaggerate.
Exactly. I have worked in the city since about 2006, and I moved here in 2016. The progress made in that time is astonishing, and it's spreading all across the city.
Maybe it's simultaneously true that Detroit has come a long way since bankruptcy and that it is still in a pretty bad spot and has a ton of work to do?
@@krysatheo This is somewhat true and the video does touch on this, but doesn't emphasize it enough. Certain parts of the city have seen huge commercial and residential development that brings absolutely needed revenue to the city. Other neighbor hoods further out are neglected or not considered prime by developers at this point. The government absolutely failed the city, most of the hope will only come in the form of private money and that begins to sprawl outward from the various city centers.
Detroit is safer then before I was robbed at Woodward & Trowbridge (non Detroiter have no clue where this is) in 2014 now I'm down there everyday 2 times a day & nothing happens it's getting better but this didn't happen overnight & it will not be fixed overnight
Perhaps a solution for Detroit and other cities in the Rust Belt would be to transform them into Special Economic Zones like China did, this region has many attractions, including a good location, good logistics infrastructure, consumer market and available labor. It is likely that many foreign and domestic investments would be made and this entire region could be revitalized.
There do have to be jobs to provide a livelihood for all those new people, though. The Rust Belt can't always provide jobs for its existing residents, let alone a whole bunch of newcomers.
@@3markaw There is going to be a mass exodus from the west due to the water crisis. Detroit is a ground floor opportunity that doesn't come around very often.
I agree, but when,& if that happens then the rising cost of living will likely go up even higher. America's allowing it's own citizens to be priced out of a home. There's Capitalism....,& then there's unregulated capitalism. This will get ugly if things don't stabilize.
I lived in Detroit most of my life. I lived there when the law came down on Kwame. I lived there when the city started sinking. When factories shut down, when the city filed for bankruptcy. The high car insurance. I had to leave the city. I still love this city. I go to Detroit every chance I get. I just don't think I could ever live there again.
@@sofly7634 Yes he did. He bought an Escalade on the city credit card for his mistress. He may have been involved in a murder while serving as mayor and had a couple dirty cops carry the murder out. I know he did a lot more just don't remember. I remember the governor at the time came to the city herself and removed him from office and next thing we know the district attorney is filing charges.
Good evening. We are from Ukraine 🇺🇦 Personally for me Detroit has always been a center of automobile industry, it is also famous for film Robocop, and local ice hockey team Detroit Red Wings
Where was the Tearing Down A Highway portion of this video?? It included everything BUT that... If they're talking about removing 375, then Detroit will turn into Pontiac when they installed Wide Track Drive: giving potential visitors no reason to go into the city itself, just around it. Make no sense to me at all... and I was a resident of Detroit and frequent visitor when I lived in the northern burbs
Rents on homes and apartments in the city has gone up big time. Same with business leases on the buildings have sky rocketed. Pushing out long time businesses and residents that stuck with the city for years. This was happening before covid. It's shameful.
@@danrook5757 no technically speaking, if you only look at how much companies there are and how much they make, it is good(lower companies means higher density of monetary gain). However if you look at it for every individual(cause we all live), less jobs is very bad.
@@jillpatton3432 Hmm, so what about the people who live here, that are also rejuvenating detroit? Do you understand how hard that is, especially without access to the same capital that those "others" have access to. I think you are really disrespecting the people who have stayed here and rebuilt this city. I am a teacher here and i find you comment highly disrespectful.
I used to live just north of that freeway and i can guarantee that the city's severe crime problems have nothing to do with the positioning of the freeway. Trust me.
This video doesn't discuss what they're replacing the highway with It's gonna be replaced by a 6 lane boulevard(that reduces to 4 lanes on certain sections), cycle lanes and pedestrian footpaths
@@DKK the same political parties thought highway was a good idea x number of years ago is probably the same one that thinks this new plan is good now- it's probably not going to be people that are hurting right now
In order to save the economy, everyone must go out and buy a $1500 folding phone and sign up for 10 streaming services. Get a $6 coffee every morning in your new ev, throw away all your perfectly good hd tv’s and buy bigger 8k tv’s… that’s really what these companies are banking on
where do the public transit go if giant highways are where the public transit need to be? kinda hard to have both at the same time, hence why most places cut their public transit to build more highways...
@@baileyedwards3711 not sure the best place, but if they want to tear down the highway, they better start digging some subway tunnels. Cause right now the highways are hands down the fastest and most convenient way to travel in Detroit
Robert Moses destroyed inner cities to the point now people can’t envision that there is another way, instead of elevated highways they can start putting all intra city highways in trenches capped by deck parks like klyde warren park in Dallas or Frankie pace park in Pittsburgh paid for through public private partnerships that could spur economic development all along these corridors
@@Fellowtellurianlived in the DMV for 5.5 years. Y'all should've been rebuilt 20 years ago. The community got to be committed to the place. No amount money can fix a place without the people. My hometown knows a few things about blowing money.
@@1122slickliverpool Detroit lost almost 1.5 million residents since it's peak population and it's neighborhoods have been decimated. I once lived in Ferndale Michigan and am familiar with Detroit.
Globalisation is exactly what nearly killed Detroit. Now planners are needing to rethink and reposition a past fever dream that became an undone reality.
Really..? Not really. The added growth from hipsters is small. The rise in population is largely poor folks reproducing. Detroit is DIRT CHEAP. Because there is NEARLY NO VALUE in properties - what pride does the poor show? None. When the house they're living in get to a point where significant repairs are needed, they just move. Why fix it if it's worth 15-$25,000 at top value....cost FAR MORE to renovate. The only development and "growth" are from the rich. Go on a block run behind those areas and you'll know... 'nuff said.
What's done is done. The huge cost freeway of removal just seems like MORE $ wasted . Why not build new housing with all the thousands of lots already available?
Most of them are polluted, have condemned housing/other buildings, and are owned by private individuals. The only way they get fixed is if zoning laws change and a complete demolition and rebuilding takes place
Priceless! One of the significant reasons for the city's decline was the freeways built through Black Bottom & Paradise Valley and the resulting loss of "vibrant" Black neighborhoods. Yet it seems that this resulted in almost the entire city becoming a "Black neighborhood" which by their reasoning should be a very positive thing... right?
Well, they did, then the real biggest employers of Detroit, the car manufacturers closed down, leaving posts of jobless, both black and white. Those who had the money to pack up and go did. Reminds me of that all white town that depended on coal and is now a drug infested, trodden down relick once coal industry left.
My parents grew up in Detroit in the 1930's and 1940's. When I look at the pictures of them from that time, Detroit is practically unrecognizable. Both of the neighborhoods that my parents grew up in are gone - I mean totally GONE. My mother used to tell me how safe it was for her as a teenager to take the bus at night on her own - and to be outside in her neighborhood in the evening. By all accounts my parents had an idyllic childhood in Detroit. Sad, such a great city collapsed the way it did. I hope it comes back better than it ever was - but that is going to be up to its current citizens.
@@leonardcollings7389 The lifestyle in Detroit began to die in the 1950's and 60's when middle class Detroiters fled the city for the suburbs followed by the civil unrest of the 1970's and the collapse of the American Auto industry in the 1980's. In the 2000's it was the Republican Party that said the US auto industry was dead and left it to die. It was the Democratic Obama administration that said no, it isn't dead, and propped the industry up with federal money until it recovered. AND every nickel of that money was paid back to the federal government WITH interest. Go get an education Lenny.
@@ScottA2345 The seeds of Detroit’s collapse were planted even as the economy boomed and the city grew in the mid-1900s. The Great Migration brought waves of African-Americans, and stoked racial tensions over housing and labor. Walkouts and TRUE RACE riots began as early as 1943, and discrimination would only accelerate from there. White-majority homeowner’s associations fought to maintain de facto segregation by race and class, with support from discriminatory regulations and programs. These groups staged campaigns to keep public housing out of white neighborhoods and to block public school funding. There were even crosses burned throughout the city in 1965. Where these efforts failed, white flight to the suburbs WITH THE BUILDING BOOM OF THE 60S provided the chance to start over with even more control. The ongoing construction of freeways to quickly move people to and from the city’s fringes bolstered this trend.
A as 🇬🇧, trained car mechanic, hearing the history of Detroit with cars, knowing it’s greatness from years gone by and as fans of all of their major sports teams, it really saddens me to see it this way.
Eye opening expose on the challenges Detroit faces. The infrastructure built for a population 3x the size of current is a giant weight on its back. The fact that they have build less than 800 houses in over a decade is staggering, but understandable The bankruptcy was the result of a giant failure to adapt, manage, and govern the city.
A friend of mine lived in the suburbs of Detroit. When the collapse happened in 2009, they both lost their jobs and they put their house up for sale. But with no jobs in town, there were NO families moving into the Detroit area who needed to buy a home. The demand for homes in Detroit was non-existent, so they had to drop the price by over $200K. They never did find a buyer ... they said they reached the point where the market value of the home had dropped below what they owed on it, so they just dropped off the keys at the bank and had to walk away from it. Banker told them "don't feel bad, this is happening every day now".
@@earlmonroe9251 yeah, I know a few people who had that happen to them. I bought my house in 2004 at the peak of the housing bubble, by 2009 it was worth less than half of what I paid for it. I wasn't too concerned, because I expected the market to rebound and I wasn't intending to move any time soon. It took about ten more years for my house to regain its lost value. Thankfully I was able to stay employed so I didn't lose it, but I came close right around the same time your friends lost their house
As a Country we really need Detroit to bounce back positively moving forward and go back to being a big contributor to the United States 🇺🇸 economy I believe in Detroit
this situation is still surreal for me, for example I can't imagine something similar in SF despite the fact that it is a modern version of Detroit a 100 years ago
Seems unlikely to happen to SF now because it’s a small area with not a lot of highways running through it. Los Angeles on the other hand… you can convince me it may happen
@@3ladeRunner It's also about to run short on clean drinking water if they don't make serious changes in the way they get it. That could cause them huge problems within the next few years.
@@formber humans are stubborn but inventive. LA will become way more water efficient. The examples of better efficiency also exist, like Las Vegas and Israel. Most of California’s usable water is used for agriculture.
I grew up in Ontario, Canadian neighbour. Nice to see you on the rebound. A special place to a Auto-Mechanic like myself. My observations, thoughts: Oil-OPEC Auto-Japan Industry-Worldwide I witnessed it from afar. You did it once, You can do it again. Good Luck USA from UK
I am from Detroit. Gotta keep most of Wayne County still stuck in 1990, so they can charge Seattle level rent along the Woodward area renovations from DIA to downtown -a controlled unfair economies of scale for their overpriced real estate / rent in a few select places. The road work is constant and abhorrent, it is a sham, a total racket. The freeway construction is constant, there is constant construction for decades -how can you have that much construction and terrible traffic if the population has decreased by over half -yet it is always h3ll.
We already do that, plus, a good chunk of the aerial footage they’ve shown was from 10-15 years, so a lot of the Downtown adjacent land that was shown already has new buildings, condos, stadiums, & other structures on it. They didn’t show that on here because sensationalism sells in the news media.
You're offering good ideas, those aren't allowed in government. Unless that farm is owned by a special interest group that makes money from it, then it's a great idea!
@@stewlittle13 having condominiums and new buildings doesn't say much about a city. Overused and crowded ones sound proseperous. You can have new vacant cities.
Car centric development is extremely expensive, inefficient, and terrible for health. Detroit needs to get rid of these highways and build mixed use, walkable development coupled with public transport. These will be far cheaper and better for the average person in the long run.
@@thevinceberry The auto industry creates demand. E.g steel, fabrics, glass, aluminum, food etc, the rust belt is the gas to the automotive engine. This creates jobs in other places, its a significant ripple effect.
Most Rust Belt cities can't dig their way out of their problems. Most are overwhelmed with public sector unions. They are also very unfriendly to business that creates revenue. They want their pound of flesh in tax money where neighboring states or cities aren't as greedy. The thing most Rust belt cities lack is a right to work law. That is the first step.
If anything, the ability of Detroit to revitalize itself will be supported by its move AWAY from its crazy over-reliance on the car industry. Putting all its eggs in the one basket of the car industry was the root cause of all of Detroit's problems, and if they don't learn that lesson from their past then they'll be doomed to repeat it.
@@Paonporteur Disagree--if you need a union to get ahead, you are not much of a worker. The only people that benefit from the union are the higher ups, shop stewards and their cronies. When promotion is based on seniority not productivity you lose incentive to outperform.
I lived in metro Detroit. Detroit is a crime wave. It's the people who live in Detroit that are the problem. I moved. Smartest move ever. I'm in silicon valley now. Which is better
Interesting how they didn’t highlight exactly what ignited the 1967 riots that was documented and made a movie about the racial tension near Black Bottom. At that time wypipo used it as time to burn all their homes and businesses to claim insurance policies and move to the suburbs. They also built 375 and 75 and 94 freeway through the heart of the black community. They also planted drugs in the 80s that REALLY took down Detroit. Let’s not forget about de-industrialization that displaced A LOT of jobs. Wages stayed the same. Property value never went up because no real industry (deindustrialization). It’s crazy. We have a tech hub now, and all sports in downtown. Honestly Detroit has to shrink the area. Our community is spread out (white flight). The neighborhoods are so wide. Either bring the community close together and utilize the remaining land for an infrastructure or allow the community to pay monthly for those abandoned lots to create local gardens, parks, rec centers, mini tech bubbles, etc. I know the potential Detroit has, I actually love this city. Born and raised lived on the west side and east side and metro Detroit. I know what this city needs. ❤️
I’m born and raised in Detroit, moved out the state in 2014 and it was the BEST decision. The only way for the city to truly gain and control economic value, is for them to minimize the city greatly and sell the available land so a new city can be established with new and better government.
I find it so egregious when people say Detroit is becoming gentrified and people are being displaced. For many decades, most of the downtown area, midtown, corktown, river town, etc. were almost completely empty. Many of the buildings in these areas were abandoned or demolished over the years. Now they’re becoming more developed and people and businesses are moving in. So you can’t really say those neighborhoods are being “gentrified” when there were little to no people there to begin with.
booo! "little to no people" aka: people you don't care about or that aren't valued by our corporate system. Those places that seemed empty to you had people living there that couldn't afford to live elsewhere. I lived in the Eastern Market for 10 years, paying $750 a month for a place that could fit up to 5 people sharing the costs. Then I got gentrified out by Sanford Nelson. He bought up as much as he could with all of these ambitious plans, none of them have materialized and now they're just doing a flip on all the properties at a big profit. Many of the places that people got kicked out of 5 years ago haven't been occupied since! So the occupancy rate has gone down while the prices have gone up...
Gentrifying an area should be seen as a desirable thing that brings benefits but there is a peculiar form of snobbery that would prefer to see areas run down as being more desirable
@@amblincork If the people living in run down areas could afford to stay in those areas as they got nicer and more developed, then I wouldn't have a problem with it. That's not what gentrification is. The question is who benefits from development, and to what audience does that gentrification cater to? It's not the poor people who already live there. Saying gentrification should been seen as desirable is another way of saying "I don't care about poor people. They are not desirable."
@@MCAndyTWhy should anyone care about the poor? I’m sick of that attitude. People are poor because they made bad life choices, or were dealt a bad hand in life. Either way, they didn’t develop the skills for success. Somebody sees an opportunity to turn a $hit hole into a nice place and suddenly everyone cries for the poor who are displaced. Cry me a river. If the poor picked up a paintbrush or took pride in their neighborhood and exerted some modicum of effort to make their neighborhood a place that was desirable to live, they would make theirselves rich, and the opportunity for someone else to come in and do the same wouldn’t exist.
There is a class that seeks to make things better and looks for opportunities to do that. And they get rich along the way. And there is another class that is lazy and wants to complain about everything and would rather live in squalor than lift a finger to change their predicament. Both classes deserve what they get.
Nobody ever gave me $hit. I worked hard in college. Then worked hard in my career. Despite that, living in a high cost of living area, I couldn’t afford a house until the crash during the financial crisis, and even then I could only afford the bottom of the barrel. So I bought the worst house in a decent neighborhood, and spent nights and weekends turning it into the nicest one on the block. It’s called sweat equity. You get out of life what you put into it.
@@MCAndyT I have grown tired of the pseudo socialist babble about these areas - I used to live in one and now the areas has jobs, offices, homes and is the better for it
The bottom line is that suburban sprawl, and the infrastructure to support it, was completely unsustainable in Detroit. And that is important to understand because there are many, many, many other cities that built their suburbs this way, and just a bit of population and job loss in any of them could bankrupt them the same way Detroit was bankrupted. We need to build our cities smarter, denser, and more efficiently.
Denser cities are extremely problematic. Take a look at NYC and LA. Both have massive issues with homelessness, violent and traffic congestion. Humans being packed in next to each other so tightly is not good for a lot of reasons. This is the same philosophy the Soviet system used in a lot of their cities, and it was a proven failure.
@@Astrobucks2 LA is much less dense on average than NYC and has a reputation for worse traffic. Curious
@@eclogite NYC unlike LA has a robust mass public transportation system. Hence the traffic in LA.
Suburbs put a ton of financial strain on the cities they surround. Suburban sprawl is a financial death wish for the major cities that support them. Dallas and Houston are great examples
@@Astrobucks2 those cities are among the least violent large cities in the U.S. actually - and their homelessness issues stem from insufficient housing, not too much density. I urge you to study anything at all about urban planning before trying to comment on it.
Road systems cost far more to maintain than people realise - suburbs often lose money even when full. The tearing up of the tram system arguably quietly triggered the financial rot in Detroit.
Pittsburgh too-
The people loved their street cars that always ran on time. Busses never ran on time.
It's because you insist on driving everywhere instead of developing local economies
@@evionlast I cycle actually.
Crime is a huge factor as are failing schools and family structures. People move out of declining inner cities because of declining life styles. As more properties become more run down and eventually abandoned tax revenues decline accelerating raising taxes and more properties being abandoned. HUD regulations do not help because of rules requiring full payment of money owed on sale or complete abandonment and stopping the payment of local property taxes.
These exact same dynamics have gutted urban areas around the United States.
The way we've built our country around cars has resulted in all sorts of tragedies.
I visited 7 countries in Europe back in the summer of 2003, and I was blown away by how futuristic and clean they were, especially the Germanic countries.
Every little town in Europe is walkable and connected to bigger places by rail, so you don't get these isolated places where people are trapped by their lack of a car.
Crime and broke cities.
I think the idea of what’s futuristic differs. European cities are old and by nature they had narrow streets which forced them to build rail lines and mass transit but the advantage is that walkability is optimal and they have really nice urban spaces that foster communal living. Whereas here in the us futurism is seen as building individual spaces with the latest technology which is why you see many single family units(prolly more than any place in the world) with better built homes but that comes at the cost of walkability(I have found that US homes on average have much better facilities than their European counterparts with some exceptions). Owning a car is much easier here in the US. But I see change happening. We are building more public transit than in the last 40 years with more intercity rail projects also on the horizon. Walkable cities are gaining traction with cities like Minneapolis, DC, Chicago. Santa Monica, New York doing amazing work with road closures, cycling infrastructure, transit oriented development and the movement is gaining traction in places like Houston m Austin too. Things are only going to go up so be optimistic.
@@portcybertryx222The main difference between walkable cities in europe and cities in the us is that, even though there were plans for pretty much every city to tear down streets and buildings in order to build highways and parking places everywhere, many european cities dismissed them (look at Amsterdam its quite famous for that)
US cities used to be walkable and had streetcars and all that good stuff but they had to go once cars got trendy
@@Manni4 yup very very true indeed. But tbf the streetcar network that the US had before was antiquated anyway and was a limiter to development in many cases. But in any case they should never have torn those down and modernised some important lines (which is what cities like LA are doing now). The worst part was demolishing cohesive neighbourhoods for building freeways and a real lost opportunity of converting the streetcar rights of way into exclusive bus lanes.
It's crime and the lack of law enforcement. No one wants to live in an unsafe area, no one cognizant anyway. Look at the mass exodus happening in NYC; is that because of cars?
I worked in/near downtown Detroit for almost 40 years. It was sad to watch it's decline. It was also aggravating to watch corrupt and bungling political hacks accelerate the decline.
After reading the video title, I was hoping they'd replace I-94 in the city, whose non-existent on-ramps are like Russian roulette
Corrupt political hacks are what killed the city. The city itself had enough to maintain everything it was doing, but this flow of money changed and so too the population, quite naturally.
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Jani my mom was born there and worked at the Vernor’s ice cream parlor. My uncle ran for mayor in the 60’s. Amazing city, but much of it didn’t go away, it just moved to the suburbs. I don’t have to mention Hudson’s. The downtown is reforming thanks to millennials from all over taking advantage of the cheaper housing. I think we are both glad to see the reinvigorated downtown. Detroit was one of the most impressive cities ever created. It’s got some of the most impressive suburbs too although they spread the attractions out now.
thank youuuuu. The came in and took advantage. And now they've been making a living off the poverty for so long (esp with the car insurance being the highest in the nation) they are millionaires and billionaires from it. Due to that its virtually impossible to undo the things they are doing. I believe they like it like this and will only allow so much success for the city to have. They don't want too much of it like it used to be let alone like some other cities, but they want to keep it this way because its profitable.
Detroit is like the city I Use to play in Cities Skylines and SimCity 2013. In the first few months, the city thrives exponentially. Then after a while it shows signs of problems in infrastructure. Later population starts to decline and finally I have to restart everything.
in this case the race riots ruined everything, as long as there is a large population of homies it's not going to come back.
Everything is a cycle
@@ERICK-di1yz doesn’t have to be. Just short sightedness leads to that.
City Skylines in a nutshell:
Having traffic Problems?
Build a freeway
Want to make any high density buildings?
Freeway
Want to run a train through the city?
Nope, got to build that freeway.
Want an airport?
You guessed it freeway.
Hey what laptop do you play skylines on?
I recently decided I would try to live in downtown Detroit, only to find out that any one bedroom apartment (not infested by roaches) costs upwards of 1800 a month. I would love to be a part of Detroit's future, but there needs to be more affordable, safe, and clean housing in the city proper.
What are the safe areas outside of downtown that are cheaper? Every downtown area will be outrageously priced.
I used to live downtown in the mid 1990s. Rent on my apartment was 400 bucks a month, lol
Why would you live in Wayne County where you'll be taxed at a higher rate, exposed to higher crime, and ... etc.
@@christco120 😯😯 wow...and it was safe.
@@Shazzyhtown oh, I don't know if I would say it was safe. Definitely not safer then than it is now. Back then downtown pretty much emptied by 6 pm, except on the weekends. It was like a ghost town. If it was safe it was only because no one was around.
Love how they skipped over the entire corruption issues in Detroit.
Because that would spoil their agenda. The last time Detroit had a Republican mayor was in 1962. There is no single person to blame. Crime, high taxes and car insurance, jobs leaving the city, decades of corruption and greed, what have you. For all intents and purposes, Detroit was doomed from the very beginning, by investing solely in auto manufacturing and little else. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Not saying the city cannot be brought back to its glory days, but as long as the people keep voting for the same policies that led the downfall in the first place, the city is a lost cause.
Positivity!
Trump pardoned the convicted former mayor of Detroit who was serving a decades long sentence in federal prison for corruption, for no apparent reason whatsoever. I wonder why Trump would help a convicted criminal who never gave back the millions he embezzled, out of jail decades early.
It’s the roads fault
yeah the curruption of mayors and city officials dating back to the 1910's, especially those paid by the local orginized crime gangs like the purple gang and the italian mob.
This could be the biggest social urban experiment. Rework the whole city to be friendly to middle class. Construct affordable houses, rework mixed use areas so ppl depend less on cars, use technologies to make the city the city of future, improve roads to provide better public transportation.
Yes please
Lol. This is a failed experiment. Detroit collapsed because of Democrat politicians. It can't be fixed by Democrat policies.
San Francisco will be next.
Yes especially the part of making ppl depend less on cars is sooo important. Like take a look at many European or Asian suburbs, they have stores in neighborhoods which allows for ppl to only walk a short distance to get something as simple as milk. However in the majority of North America (Canada and US) if you live in the suburbs and don't own a car, you're basically screwed as most of the stores are on the main road or in a far distance. I really wish this would change as it could give the suburbs are more lively and fun feel, rather than isolated and inconvenient.
@@farzana6676 Yeah, cities like Amsterdam, Zürich failed tremendously! Imagine take the bicycle to do your groceries or being able to walk there! It's mind blowing for you probably
@@Holland1994D Lol, first of all Amsterdam is a drug infested red light district run by North Africans and Turks.
In America you don't need to ride a bike to buy groceries. They get delivered to your door.
7:57 I like how she avoided saying schools, healthcare, infrastructure libraries etc etc, rather just softening the blow by saying pensioners and museums
I'm almost ½ a century old. Detroit has been said to be "coming back" my whole life. I-375 is the least of their problems.
You obviously haven’t been Detroit especially Downtown
@@LilJessye94 I literally work there, and was downtown Friday.
Yet the video doesn't really touch on that. It uses it as the base of the video, but it's more of a jumping-off point to discuss the large problems facing Detroit. I-375 is really just the tip of the iceberg.
@@frankjones2521 Thumbs up, but I think you meant to say just "I work there", or "I actually work there". I don't think you could figuratively work there.
@@Stratus6 Stop being racist
I loved visiting Detroit twice for car shows downtown. It was a blast. My grandpa was from Detroit and moved to the Dayton area to work for GM. I would love to go back to see more.
It's vastly different than it was 5 years ago. And will be even better in coming years. They have some issues to figure out (like affordable housing), but it'll be fine in the long run.
No, you wouldn't trust me. There are some nicer newer areas and things to do but it is not even close to safe. I've been robbed in broad daylight in a nicer area. I rarely go there anymore because it's so dangerous.
@@marniekilbourne608 You can get robbed in literally any downtown of any city in the world...
@@marniekilbourne608 100 percent true
Don't forget to visit the acres and acres of abandoned property and buildings outside the downtown area. See one or two homes standing on one or three blocks of city streets. Make sure you have a full tank of gas before you travel through these vacant places that exist in the big "D." And carry a gun or two. Don't be a victim of crime that IS there in Detroit. Notice that new housing is being in the downtown area. Putting people in shoeboxes instead of putting people in actual homes. There's no grocery stores in the downtown area like Meijer or Kroger.
Dan Gilbert, Chris Illitch, and Billy Ford are building a new Emerald City just like in the movie The Whizzard of Oz. It's all smoke and mirrors, folks. The big three of Gilbert, Ford, and Illitch are just ripping off the Detroit citizens using eye candy. They are only in it for making more money on the backs of people who can't really afford to live there in the downtown area. It's a big money trap. 💰 Big scam.😮
A City isn't just a Downtown, an attraction, a venue, a tourist spot, a sporting event...a City is its people, and if Detroit continues losing population then it will continue to fail as a workable city for the majority of its residents. Who REALLY benefits from all these grandiose plans? The investors, politicians, city planners, certain business people & social engineers. Invest in affordable housing, sanitation, public safety, reliable public transportation...invest in the cities core neighbors. Invest in people...not places.
Yeah
We need more food stamps
@@a.b.g.8490 Will is surely talking about things like improved education and improved transit in the residential neighborhoods, which leads to access to better jobs. That results in a better economy and potentially less crime.
@@ronhilliard7920 how about some gentrification and immigration from neighbouring cities with already educated people
i believe the "Real" movers and shakers behind the scenes actually like the city like this. They came in decades ago when the city was very looked down upon as well as going thru a hard time and were allowed to flourish and now they are billionaires. A lot of the abandoned messed up properties all around the city, in neighborhoods too, are owned by millionaires and billionaires. So now any real changes people want to do they have to deal with them. Let alone the politicians that hated the city like L. Brooks.
America doesn't do that. Ifv there's no proof l profit to be made, nobody is interested.
I've visited Detriot in 2019 because Motown Studio Museum was on my bucket list. I've seen the abandoned communities in the outskirts but it if you will just wander around the downtown area it was actually pretty nice and relatively clean. I felt safe walking around. They have nice museums, beautiful skyline, the river park was stunning and the Greektown was very charming. Just comparing the downtown Detriot in other US cities I think Detriot has a lot more to offer. It was worth a visit.
Haha you saw only a small pocket within the city. If you drove around a different area at a different time of day you would not be saying that. If you go to the east side at 3am you better be wearing your bullet proof vest.
And how many "Greek" restaurants did you actually see in "Greektown"?
@@rockys7726 he did mention only sound the downtown area
@@MikaelFresco yes but if he goes outside of the pocket it's not a nice area.
@@rockys7726 he never said it was a nice area outside the tourist downtown zone… I’ve walked around Detroit a lot. A lot of people are still afraid but they also never go to the city unless it’s a sporting event and then they peace out immediately.
You just goin less than 5% of downtown🤣
I lived in the greater Detroit area for one year. Even though the metro center was in decline, I loved my time there! The former culture was still present. I wish Detroit and the people of Detroit well!
thank youuuu!!
In 2022, Detroit is the comeback city and it's River Walk has been named the nation's finest 2 years in a row. Time magazine has named Detroit one of the 50 best places to visit in the WORLD! The negativity about Detroit is a tool for exploitation for profit!
@@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComeback
Ah thank you, Frankai.
And I just saw that the Gucci store has just opened on Library street.
Gotta save my money and buy something. Lol. Maybe a shirt.
@@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComebacklol no it hasn’t 😊
The attitude that "re-development is good, but gentrification is bad" is oxymoronic.
No it’s not. Why can’t redevelopment be for the people that live there already? Why do they need to be pushed aside for Californians?
Grew up a few miles north of the east side. Back in 09 I worked for a company cleaning out abandoned and foreclosed homes in the city. Cleaned a gorgeous old home. 8 or 9 beds and as many baths. For less than $10k, I considered buying and fixing it up for my family, until the neighbors warned me about the taxes. Neighbors had houses half the size and paid nearly $4k a year for property taxes. For comparison, the house I bought a few miles away in Eastpointe was $1,500. Smaller home to be fair, but the ridiculous taxes in Detroit have choked out any possibility of keeping the citizens it claims to care about.
Install and maintain your own power and sewer, hire private security, and pray your house don't catch fire (no private fire departments in most places) and then tell me an 8k tax bill (on a mansion, no less) is a bad deal.
I think Detroit has a good chance at having a good future, but it'll take 30 to 40 years of doing things the right way before that happens.
Detroit needs to cut taxes and deregulate almost everything before anyone realistically invest in the city. Right now if you want to build a factory in the city it can take 2 years to grab permits. That's insane. Than another year or 2 to build. Meanwhile in Texas for example Tesla got permits in 2 days and built it's factory in 9 months.
UNDER BIDEN. 100+ years of the damager biden has done to america
Didn’t happen in one generation. Won’t get fixed in one generation
@@danrook5757 but humans only think In one generation . A city or country must constantly improve without any dip or people just leave .
Nobody is like I'm going to move there because it's cheap and in 30 years if we all work together it could be nice .
No people be like I'm going over here where it's allready nice .
Less than that. Give it at least 10 years for sure and it will be back like it’s old days
lost me at “construction work could kick off by 2027”. my life is going to be halfway done by the time these urgent infrastructure projects will be complete…
In the Detroit-dirty-democrat style, They will double the construction timeline, and quadruple the budgets to drain the working class, and profit their crony's no-bid CONtracts.
America in a nutshell lol
And they have a gubernatorial election before that which could change all of it.
@@tomstevens7452 i mean either gretchen whitmer is elected and it takes 7 years just to start construction or a republican is elected and they most likely just build even more highways if anything changes at all. neither is a win lmao
which means they won't happen, basically. This has been going on for years even before covid.
And too when would it finish? As long as they NEVER let the company or companies that are doing the i75 work do it then ok. But i imagine it taking years to do it right.
It’s so sad to see all of the gorgeous old homes just wilting away….as a old home lover it breaks my heart
I was born, grew up and lived in Detroit from 1965 till 1998. I watched my city destroyed by corruption, greed, rampant crime, race issues, gangs and finally, financial collapse. I am ashamed of what was allowed to happen to a once thriving city. Personally, I feel that the beginning of the end for Detroit came in the form of the corruption founded in the 20 year long administration of Coleman A. Young, and the subsequent administrations influenced by him. Other cities across the country need to study Detroits rise and fall and avoid the many mistakes that were made.
Charles want to see the opposite of a city that is beautiful and VERY safe? Vancouver BC or...countries in Europe!
Actual real elections would fix Detroit and less indoctrination keeping the poor on the plantation and part of the tax base that benefits unfortunately the poor and middle class everywhere is under attack for a new system that removes vehicles and takes property ownership away. This sounds like a test market the fed reserve ready to loan out of thin air 20 years everyone will be upside down on the dole crammed into a mixed use nightmare.
It's Putin hand!
The downfall started way before Coleman Young. 1967 riots FREAKED people out - white and black (I was there, I'm an old man.). The whites fled to the suburbs, true. However, the up and coming black middle and upper classes fled to Atlanta. There were many black professionals that saw the riots and decided NOT to raise their families there.
@@climeaware4814 yeah Londonistan
I'm always in support of removing interstates, but this all comes across with a very top-down, public savior like attitude. Minneapolis has removed their single family home zoning laws, allowing ground up development of ANY kind and systemically relieving the affordability problem through that one smart and unselfish move requiring zero funding. Why is that possibility not even mentioned for Detroit?
With little knowledge of Detroit zoning/real estate demand I would imagine if people are leaving the city there literally isn’t enough demand for a wide scale upzoning to take place. If parts of the city with higher density zoning aren’t being built on, I don’t see why the thousands of abandoned lots would suddenly be developed given an up zoning. I do think up zoning the city would be good, but the city also just needs to be more desirable to developers as well.
@@tfhorsch4527 fixing past mistakes is expensive too. if you upzone you need to build the city smaller. hence fixing the Infastructure. to upzone you need to demolish a lot,and I think demolition gets pricey. regardless, I can't wait to see. the faster they finish the better.
@@tfhorsch4527 the whole point of mixed used zoning is that you can build anything you want, so if you’re not limited to building just a single family home, and nothing else. People and businesses are not limited, and can build other things like triplexes, ground floor businesses with upper floor housing, office spaces, the idea of being able to build what you want isn’t commonplace considering the majority of land dedicated to any sort of development is almost always just single-family housing, which is apparent in the supply crisis happening right now in America which is driving up housing costs (along with other factors of course)
Minneapolis has a surging migrant crisis that has been occurring for over a decade. These are low-skilled, low-wage workers that the city needs to house. So of course the city wants to get rid of single family zoning so they can get as many apartments as possible to house them. Minneapolis has been making poor decisions for it's citizens for nearly 20 years and within the next 20 years it will resemble Detroit in the 1980s.
@@jj4ester366 you framed that as if mixed zoning for people that need housing is a bad thing to invest in, considering the housing crisis supply crisis right now where housing isn’t being built at the rate of demand, that’s a good thing. Development should also exist to bring careers into a neighborhood, they aren’t mutually exclusive to mixed used zoning, mixed use means you can just build whatever you want, whether it be a business, or a house, or both at the same time, rather than it being separated in which people have no other option but to invest in a car, and drive to somewhere to get to work rather than getting somewhere however they please. Besides zoning, you need proper education, to learn skills needed to get to high paying jobs, which Detroit is investing in along with the businesses for people to go to, and is doing the best a cash strapped city can do considering it has to use its money to demolish entire structures that aren’t used any more, and maintain infrastructure for a city built for 2 million, for a population of a few hundred thousand. Rome was not built in a day, it will take decades
It's great they're tearing down highways.
We need livable walkable cities for commerce and comfort.
I don't. Greenies are a bane on society.
only if they replace the highway with some good public transit
Did I miss the part where they discussed tearing down highways? lol. They discussed the problems 375 caused, but then ... nothing. I had to look up a separate article to find out that they're actually planning to deconstruct 375 and turn it into a boulevard.. something this video didn't even bother mentioning as far as I saw...
@@naaspam1185 yeah the video title's misleading.
I don't think they should tear it. But to build over it or make a tunnel like Boston to build on top.
Despite all this, Detroit is still a very underrated city that maybe one day will overcome its image the media portrays it as. It's not perfect, but it's improving
Its glory is in the past. Media outlets now are promoting Detroit meanwhile irl no one would ever move here from elsewhere.
Crime and trash schools will never appeal to any average american
Detroit wasn't unlucky, you had people in power deliberately selling the city to businesses that shipped jobs overseas. With fewer jobs, the citizens (as shown in this video) either protested or left to start new futures elsewhere altogether. Less people means less taxes which means less services and things drag down from there. Don't forget how this started. In San Francisco, where I'm from, it's a blight of gentrification. Nobody can afford to live here but millionaires. They sold the city to corporations and tech companies.
All the competent white people left. Auto manufacturing moved to other more competitive states.
The Democrats have run both cities since before I was born.
@@jacobzindel987 it's a two party problem not just a Democratic Party problem. You don't have these systemic problems in countries with parliamentary governments!
But they didn't ship the jobs overseas, at least not in the period of the largest downturn. They shipped them to other states where governments gave incentives to build plants so politicians could campaign on how they brought jobs to the state. Meanwhile, Wayne county constantly raised business taxes and the UAW mad it the most expensive place to hire a worker. It wasn't cheap labor in other countries that killed Detroit, it was cheap labor in other parts of the US, and government policies that encouraged businesses to move anywhere else. Most of them just moved 10 to 20 miles away to cities like warren and sterling heights in Macomb and Oakland counties that had tax policies that actually encouraged businesses. It wasn't until the 90's that global trade actually started moving those jobs to other countries.
The UAW had a big hand in forcing companies to non union / right to work states.
Detroit needs mixed-use dense walkable neighborhoods. Sprawling car dependent suburbs have high infrastructure costs for low rates of return. If they build more highways and suburbs, they'll simply be repeating the mistakes of the past.
The Strong Towns mentality! My friend lived where commercial spaces existed under multi-level apartments and duplexes. All parking was done in a partial underground and surface level garage. The benefit is that everything there was walkable and contained quite a few things. You didn't really need to drive much. It seemed like a good concept and was pretty nice.
Never waste a good crisis. An opportunity for innovative solutions.
Sadly, Detroit is one of the cities most impacted by freeways. They already caused serious isolation and car-friendly development.
Plenty of neighborhoods within Detroit that are walkable on a night out. Neighborhood to neighborhood requires some sort of transportation.
@@josepholdani543 and who were the people that lived there? i bet it wasn't the usual muggers and crack heads
As a Michigan resident, same story for forty years. We are rebuilding Detroit.
Keep voting one party and expect change 🤡🤦
Youre gonna invite gentrification.
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Exactly. The longer we keep looking at Detroit as the shining jewel of the state like it used to be, the longer it is gonna take us to realize the reality that it is just the stinking butthole of the state
@@jneuf861good. That’s how Midwest cities can be saved. Only way is gentrification and pushing prices too high for most people.
I've always wondered if they should just let the city shrink. Maybe even let the surrounding open areas become rural farming areas and maybe even get annexed into the neighboring Michigan towns. Maybe it could be the first time in history when an area changes FROM a city, BACK into farmland, instead of the other way around. Has that ever happened anywhere in the world, in the past 200 years?
The only issue is that you would have to dig up a ton of infrastructure and possibly decontaminate the soil before it becomes remotely viable to farm.
However abandoning some of the overbuilt infrastructure or ideally destroying it and then letting nature reclaim it may be needed to balance out the city's ledger. Degrowth is hard but may be needed to let the city recover and regrow.
@@popcornone2702agreed, but it’s much harder to do this in practice. And Hugh corruption would make that that impossible I feel like
All through the 70s we'd watch homes get bulldozed and debris (lead, asbestos, etc) filled the abandoned basements. Dirt was then piled on top and grass planted.
Farming this land will just create another generation of cancer victims.
All through the 70s we'd watch homes get bulldozed and debris (lead, asbestos, etc) filled the abandoned basements. Dirt was then piled on top and grass planted.
Farming this land will just create another generation of cancer victims.
I don't know much about the history of Detroit besides what's in this video and news over the last 5-10 years, but I think a huge factor was Detroit's inability to adapt to changes and diversify their economy to other things besides car manufacturing. this is true in so many other places (cities, countries) around the globe. "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" sort of thing.
Best luck to the sisters and brothers in Detroit.
Detroit is in a tricky spiral. It developed infrastructure for a city of 2M people based on the height of the domestic automobile industry. Since 1950, the auto industry died and Detroit experienced a population decline of 65%. Its problems outsize its means.
Pretty much but there is more to it. It used to be nice but once it started going downhill it went downhill very quickly. I think it's beyond saving at this point even with the new additions. I'd live there if it was even close to semi safe. I've been robbed in broad daylight in a nicer area so no way! I can't.
Detroit is a major tech hub, additionally Microsoft and Google have offices in downtown Detroit
As a native Michigander, You nailed it. Though this wasn’t always the case. For many decades Detroit use to manufacture so many other things other than cars, but as those jobs started to leave, the people and money went with it.
Car manufacturing was a great source of employment for the people of Detroit. They usually paid above market average and had Unions and pensions. Outsourcing these manufacturing jobs destroyed what made Detroit so great in the first place.
Can’t have it both ways. Either improve the city-gentrification or watch it rot and high property taxes makes it worse
Agreed, it’s one of the other. Improve and watch new companies and educated upper class professionals displace some of the poor. Or let it stay a gangsters paradise.
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@@lowrider94ss This is something your mom should have taught you. If you dislike the run down part of the city but like the low rents and opportunity for larceny. OK but you can’t also what improvements that come with higher rents and property taxes and costs these in turn force out residents who can’t afford the new higher costs.
@@Dog.soldier1950 there are ways to generate a more natural social gradient without making such an abrupt one which allows people to adjust ...no?
@@vanhoot2234 Cuba has done it. Everyone is poor
I recently visited Detroit, it is an amazing place to visit despite the past challenges and stereotypical attitude....lots of constructions ,art deco structures .... hopefully it keeps its rising 🥰
Detroit is an armpit. A little visit doesn't give you enough time to see the real side of the city, which is rampant crime and racism like you've never experienced anywhere else.
The only thing propping it up is outside money. The problem are the majority of its residents. They're violent, willfully uneducated, and hate to work.
I've never been to the US, but I would think that if the city took the opportunity to plant signficant numbers of trees and turn land over toe forrested parklands, then the city would become very attractive for many people who want to live in a green urban environment.
@@BDub2024 That's been tried over and over, never worked. Detroit's problem is crime and it ain't going anywhere.
Hope you got to visit our amazing Detroit Institute of Arts and headed out to Dearborn to see The Henry Ford!
I was just in that part of Detroit last year. Right where the Lions and Tigers play. Really clean, booming downtown area. I loved seeing the classic Cadillacs driving through the streets. Even the latest Escalades, Tahoe, Suburban, lincolns, Chargers, people in Detroit car wise have it good. It's also really diverse where I was. Go West of that, it's a different world. Really sad to see these living conditions. That city has real potential to be one of America's greatest cities if the city leaders knew how to clean up and actually focus on economic growth. I'm in Chicago, I know what it's like to live and work under horrible leadership. Give it 10 years, I say Detroit will be a top 10 American city.
Eh, maybe 15 years. It'll take a bit for Detroit to come back from the mismanagement of the late 90s and 2000s. That more than the Recession of '08 hit the city hard. I watched it happen from just 30 minutes outside the city. Was so very sad. I'm proud to say I come from Metro Detroit though. We got alot of pride up here, and it's what's kept us going all these years.
They like living that way and resist all attempts at civilization. The problem with Detroit are its people. Their representatives ~fiercely black, always Democrat~ are the reason why it's a dump.
@@Stargazzer811Imo the early 1980s hit the city the hardest, we had a energy and oil crisis, 15% inflation and 16% interest. Detroits metropolitan area didn’t start to decline until the 1980s.
Chicagos problem is more of the state governors if you south of chicago the roads suddenly become horrible and you get blasted by potholes. Thank god Im in Indiana now, Indiana at least cares to fix it’s roads and it has had major road spending since the mid 2000s fixing the roads.
I hope Detroit makes a comeback. My dad grew up there in the 70s and left because he joined the military, but for some reason he still wants to go back. There is a lot of good in Michigan and in Detroit, specifically. People have to work together to make it happen. I wish my dad could go back, but he's been rooted here in California since before my birth when he met my mother. Now the three of us want to appease that homesickness he has, but it's difficult. Detroit needs to make a comeback, because it will show all of us that just because you file for bankruptcy, it doesn't mean there is no room for growth. If individuals can get back on their feet, imagine what a city can do.
Born and raised from the D. The blacks created this city and now that the white man has came to build back better, the black man wants to complain again? They like the way they made our city. Never forget '67 Never Forgive '67
My dad came of age in Detroit in the '30s - '40s. One time in the 90s, he took me around downtown and pointed out all the changes that had happened since then. It was sad, but it doesn't mean that Detroit is doomed. It was a great city then and it can be again.
@@thepatriarchy819 It's amazing that social media continues to provide a megaphone for ignoramuses and haters. This is a problem that damages the country as well as Detroit.
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First off, leave highway. Secondly cant complain about ppl moving from city AND complain about gentrification. You either want ppl to live there or not
The gentrification problem in Detroit is in the neighborhoods that held on through all the bad years and are now seeing moneyed people come back and just buy up their community. The money needs to develop the empty areas, not the ones that the community kept civil.
A city is a construct of the people that live there. Detroit can only bounce back if many quality people (200,000?) bounce back to Detroit and the criminal element is removed. Having lived there in the 50s and 60s, I don't see that happening. There's lots of better places to live.
The criminal element will not be removed. This is a large city and this is america. You can reduce the problem. You don't think that 200,000 quality people would move to this city? That's crazy.
What’s important is to make Detroit NOT dependent on one major industry like was in the past. Detroit should be a place where various industries are developing so in case one industry goes down, the city would not go down too.
In absence of a dominant American auto industry, Detroit needs to capitalize on its international riverfront, Great Lakes trade, and central geographic position on the North American continent in order to succeed. We have to remember that Detroit historically succeeded as gateway connecting midwestern industries to Canada, Upstate NY, and the Atlantic. However, this attribute key to Detroit's relevance is hugely glossed over in the current day. With regard to trade infrastructure, Detroit still has only one international bridge (privately owned), a downtown tunnel, and a seriously outdated rail tunnel. It is said that because of the Jones Act, there is little incentive to make the St. Lawrence seaway passable for modern container ships and ocean liners. Also, mass transit between Detroit and Windsor is nearly nonexistent, not to mention the great opportunity that would be connecting passenger rail service from Buffalo, NY and Quebec City to Chicago. All this would turn Detroit into a major metropolis. People and goods would flood into the city, making it perhaps more attractive than Chicago for attracting international business, as well as manufacturing due to lower transportation costs and "direct access" from the Midwest to Canada, New York, Europe and the Mediterranean.
However, these neighborhood improvements and freeway removals are still long overdue. I personally see that the freeways have turned Downtown Detroit into a fortress completely detached from the rest of the city and I'd like to see more continuity in Detroit's urban fabric. Also, the Gordie Howe Bridge is sure to stimulate investment and I am excited to see how that turns out. However, I am doubtful that more freeway dependent trucks and cars are really what the city needs.
Well said!
If it’s any sign, the 2023 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation is being hosted there. And as far as I can tell there are only good things being said of it, including from APEC’s website;
““Detroit represents the story of United States’ economic revitalization, transformation and resilience,” said Matt Murray, US Senior Official for APEC. “Detroit showcases the importance of cross-border trade with our neighbor, worker-centric trade policies and an advanced manufacturing industry, making it a perfect location for highlighting economic inclusion and innovative growth.”
“We are committed to being a good steward of APEC to promote an international economic policy that boosts prosperity both at home and in the region,” Murray added. “APEC has delivered success stories in the past three decades and we want to build on this momentum.””
This is the perfect opportunity to fix so many issues american cities suffer from. Detroit could be redesigned to be a walkable city. Removing the highways and implementing public transit could be highly benificial to Detroit and its citezens.
Walkability, and public transport, are the way of the future. This is Detroit's chance to move to a European way of life and become a model for other cities.
there will be no city unless crime is dealt with and thugs are put out
@@Chahlie Rural is the future, shut up.
Metro detroit/downtown NEEDS a subway system👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
@@TheOwl22 rural is why taxes are so high. To live in a rural area the infrastructure costs significantly more therefore increased taxes to sustain it
Detroit is still beholden to failed policies and hasn't changed the political corruption or processes that keep good businesses out. My son's company just moved to a suburb of Detroit after 50 years in Detroit because of regulations and taxes.
I know...crazy how people who live in major cities think that overtaxing businesses, forcing equity on all contracts, and enabling soft on crime policies will make any city, let alone, Detroit, better......
@@steve19811 exactly. As Forrest Gump said,"Stupid is as Stupid does."
Not a mystery developers said hell no, it's crime ridden and couldn't even handle having a grocery store.
I am hoping Detroit see a rise they have been talking about it for a long time.
As long as it took Detroit to decline, it will take the same amount of time for it to recover and revitalize.
Detroit should be replacing the highway with a smaller car footprint street, not a 9 lane atrocity that MDOT wants to shove on us.
Most engineers are fools who have no clue how to create a street that is for people.. not for cars.....
@@steve19811 The irony is the roads they design aren't even good for cars.
They should study what Boston did when it demolished a highway and moved it underground
@@junsu21 I live in western Mass and our roads are terrible BECAUSE of the Big Dig! All the available state funds went to fund continuous cost overruns in the Big Dig! So while they have more available land in Boston and a nice infrastructure, we in the REST of the state helped to pay for it by having our necessary projects delayed or cancelled! Boston truly is the hub of our universe in New England!
Detroit is a car-centric city and you want them to just avoid that point?
No mentioning of the crime rate of Detroit. How about do something about that first, before thinking of building this or that. Doesn't matter what you built if crime rate is high.
Right there's a reason why the city went from having a million people to only 600,000
Detroit needs to invest in public transportation. It’s too car dependent. A subway system would bring people into the city and give it an additional economic boost
In 2022, Detroit is the comeback city and it's River Walk has been named the nation's finest 2 years in a row! Time magazine has named Detroit one of the 50 best places to visit in the WORLD.
Lol Time magazine is just a website.
Being a long resident of the city, I can tell you everything about it, and it is a very strange place, the city and its surrounding regions are very interesting, there isn't a lack of things to do for residents and people visiting from ohio, indiana and Ontario, but on the flip, it is a dangerous city because of the thousands of people roaming around with illegal guns committing car jacks, freeway shootings, break-ins, and just causing havoc to citizens, the suburbs are absolutely safer, although some crimes happen there as well.
Commuting is a breeze because the traffic flows without all the congestion like in Chicago, NYC or Atlanta, but when traffic does get backed up, drivers become very impatient aggressive and dangerous because we're not used to just sitting in traffic, we're the motor city and like to keep moving.
As for the taxes, its insane now, I pay 1900.00 a year to city taxes as a 1099 worker, then around 1800.00 to the state of Michigan which the two are consolidated now so it is just one bill, but that's a lot to pay outta pocket every year. The city has no problem snatching your home property from you for unpaid taxes, get just one year behind and they'll start talking about taking it from you. Energy costs are high, because of the heat you need for winter, and the cool you need throughout the summer. Corruption is high still, even after the bankruptcy and house cleaning, there's still work to do.
Police service is horrible, they are trying but they can't keep up with the high crime rates.
Three reasons I want to move away is the crime, taxes and brutally cold winters, four months of brutal cold is enough to leave, but I lived down south for one year and experienced all seasons, and the heat was unbearable.
There's lots of construction everywhere, even into the residential areas, the city landscape is urban, suburban and rural all within its limits, totally surrounded by built up suburbs.
Finally, people always have the wrong perception of Detroit, it truly is no different that what is going on an many other American cities, and people will argue with me about it, oh its cold, oh its high crime...thats all you got coming from a place like Houston, Atlanta, LA, SF, Minneapolis, Seattle, I'll take Detroit any day over these places
Seattle and Atlanta >>>> Detroit and those other cities you mentioned
@@akolyt Seattle and Atlanta have the highest hiv rate and combined with all that was said about Detroit...bottomline Detroit is on a rise !!!
Climate change has dramatically reduced "brutally cold" winters in Detroit.
The crime has skyrocketed in Atlanta because of people from the "North" moving To the city and the surrounding suburbs.
Detroit, Wisconsin, Chicago, Ohio Indiana, New York, Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
One thing about if you come to Atlanta or to the South. You commit a crime you are going to jail for a Very long time that's if you don't get killed 1st In the Streets of Atlanta, Everybody has a gun just like a cell phone.
@@crunchmaneslice276 i'm not going to get hiv just by walking through those cities
It is the safety concern that will tear down any community.
When people feels they are not safe, they will move once the oppurtunity comes.
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@TNerd they already moving with or without the highway, for once let do something new.
thats the DEM party playbook. Those that remain are controllable and dependent on the politicians. The people then demand non-enforcement of crime and more handout programs.
DETROIT MICHIGAN is making a huge huge come up. It’s affordable and hip. Downtown is now desired to live and businesses are going up like crazy.
Move out of NYC!!! Invest here!!
Does this mean detroit will have alot of towers like other cities ?
From my first visits to Detroit in 2014 to now, it is astounding how far the city has come. From Ford investing into a downtown historical structure, to small business calling Detroit home, it is humbling seeing this great Michigan city grow once again! I hope Detroit finds an identity that works for the future, just like Pittsburgh did. I do hope Detroit does hang on to some of its older buildings! These were some of the first high-rises in the world!
Yes, but the inner city needs big big money and big big rebuilding.
The problem is Detroit has so much more developable land than Pittsburgh. The scale of the solution needed in Detroit is just massive and it's hard when your city is run under a monoculture of a political party with a long track record of historical corruption.
And the gentrification is focus on downtown and midtown only. There are still so many deserted area that no one will care about
Wait, what is Pittsburgh's identity? lol
@@StochasticUniverse10 or 15 years ago they said Pittsburgh's economy was all about education and medical. Now it's technology, education, medical, and finance most likely in that order.
Detroit is one of my favorite cities to visit in the United States. I been to the motor city twice and the city is rich with history and architecture. When I took my mom to my second visit, we volunteered to help plant trees in the city to help this neighborhood with these vacant homes. This city will always hold a special place and I considered moving there to continue to help the city.
That's nice of you but it seems beyond saving. It is not safe. Sure it has history all cities do but most of it is rotting or has been torn down. It used to be really nice a long time ago then it quickly went to hell. I'd live there if it was cleaned up in all areas and if it even close to kind of safe but it just is not. I fear just visiting. I've been robbed in broad daylight so it really is rarely worth the risk and that makes me sad because there are things to do and some nice restaurants and businesses but too much of the city is a hell hole. And idk how it can possibly be returned to a new version of what it once was.
@@marniekilbourne608 Dang, you're saying 600K+ people are beyond saving? harsh
@@MCAndyT Live there like I do, then you'll understand.
@@KingfishStevens-di9ji I do live here, yo! Right near the Ambassador Bridge
@@MCAndyT keep you doors locked.
The corrupt city government is to blame and does nothing to solve the affordable housing problem in Detroit.
That problem laid with the maintenance costs to constantly replace the damage vs the cost to make a decent place to live to start with when people had no skin in the game or looking death in the face of they said anything or helped the police remove the crime.
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Downtown Detroit in particular is quite nice. Even many of the surrounding neighborhoods are making a revival and feel much more lively and safe!
Move to Detroit suburbs, have some kids, send them to Detroit school system. Should be great.
It's the people who refused change for a better life. Just went there in July. It's has so much potential, but it's hot mess express. And the amount of regulation that prevents outside investment ensures it will never grow.
What a narrowminded comment
I agree. Detroit’s my home, but there are many things that prevent it from reaching its potential.
As a City resident (born a raised) I’m proud of all the work we are doing to bring it back ❤
ILOVE DETROIT! always wanted to work and live downtown. yeah, it's not what people hear and see on TV. it's a great place where you never know what kind of surprises you'll see, but in a good / weird way. it's the cities character though. I'm glad to see it getting better. still a lot of progress to be made but progress none the less.
I'm definitely on board with the Detroit comeback. Even right now, there's a ton of fun to be had.
My 1 concern is how to keep housing still attainable for current residents. Maybe you increase supply by fixing many abandoned units rather than new construction unless you're looking at full neighborhoods that have already been bulldozed. Many individuals are doing this but there's not enough focus outside of Downtown for me.
Detroit is the perfect place to restart precisely because of this. They need to focus on renter oriented housing rather than single family homes.
@@katjerouac As long as the ruling administration is in its current form nothing will change. They’re still back at square one with revenue issues. The main competition is the suburbs and they’re just quite frankly better run.
@@buzzfeedright4154 problem is that the suburbs ARE subsidized by the city. They tend to have all the perks and not the responsibility of paying for utilities.
Affordable housing combined with restructuring the economics of the city around more than just cars. Detroit needs to invest in small businesses. Build the city from the ground up and not just cater to big corporations.
@@ianhomerpura8937 People would wanna live in the city due to the location if it was ran better they would. There’s plenty of room for the type of suburban sprawl that they’ve become accustomed to over generations. Corruption prospers at every corner that’s what stops them from doing it, and I don’t see that changing any time soon unfortunately.
I moved from California to Detroit due to cost constraints about 2 years ago ($600 sq ft for a shack in SoCal wasn’t in the cards). Having lived in downtown San Diego and San Francisco for a number of years, I can say that Detroit isn’t too far away from either of those cities. It’s actually closer to the SD Gaslamp at the beginning of its renovation around the turn of the century.
SD and SF both have major issues with gentrification and have pockets of squalor just like Detroit. The difference is that Detroit is improving while California major cities are deteriorating. Not to make this a California v Michigan thing; just stating the obvious and not to judge a book by its cover that you haven’t opened since the HIV/AIDS crisis in the early 90s.
Instead of tearing down an expressway and rebuilding it in a different way, use that money to create affordable housing and new neighborhoods. Nostalgia is not a good reason to waste taxpayer money.
Actually, I-375 is a 1.5 mile highway that serves virtually no purpose. Most of our highways are built in trenches in Detroit & serve as physical barriers to different neighborhoods. The removal of I-375 will physically reconnect the near-East Side neighborhoods of Lafayette Park, Elmwood Park, & others to Downtown. The highway is just about at the end of its life cycle anyways, as it was built back in the 50’s, so tearing it out and building rebuilding a surface street will be a better long term benefit.
Actually, they should replace it with a “woonerf”
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This video shows a good example of good street design with cars still able to access their streets.
they are not proposing tearing them down just to give back to communities that were destroyed it will also serve a purpose of getting people to move into the area to help grow the city. No one wants to live around noise and traffic pollution.
@@giths19 When in Detroit years ago I marveled at what a rundown hole it was, pothole streets, etc.
BUT, it had one sparkling smooth six-lane superhighway going directly from downtown Detroit to The Suburbs and also had the COBO hall...
This was a great informational video. Keep making more like this CNBC!
For any of you whom have truly visited the Detroit neighborhoods- not just downtown or little trendy hamlets- there is truly no where to go but up. So the idea to me, that they would be displaced or priced out, is a problem I would personally rather deal with than living in crime ridden areas where sometimes there are 20 abandon houses and 2 inhabited houses on an the whole street. And no, I am not kidding. This exists. All we know is what was tried before, didn't work- for DECADES. Time for something new.
“Whom” is not correct in this situation. Overcorrecting to the point of being incorrect. 😉
There are untold Acres in the city of Detroit that are just blocks and blocks of empty lots. Look at the area around 2126 Pierce Street and try to tell me who would be displaced by building there.
@@d3athmak3r3 Good point. Most them were just abandon homes that were eventually razed. What they did consider a problem at one point was that you'd literally have streets with just one house, which isn't very cost effective for maintaining infrastructure (water, sewer. trash). So there was discussion about consolidating homes (this was maybe 10-15 years ago). but then you would be displacing people, so I don't think the idea got very far.
The crime has left those empty areas now too. Crime needs people to steal from, and where there aren't any people, the only crime is when the wild dogs rob a chicken coop.
@@FlanaFugue This is true to a degree, but not in all cases. Some of the those areas still have abandoned houses that squatters and addicts move into and commit plenty of violent crimes amongst each other and anyone unfortunate enough to wander through. This is why you want to be extra careful about not getting lost in those hoods- because the ONLY people there now are dangerous and there is no one there that's going to witness it or help you, so it becomes even worse. My buddy flagged down by a woman who appear to be next to a broken down car in one of these areas with almost no one around. When he rolled down his window and asked her if she was ok, he was met at the passengers side window by a man with a gun and was robbed. He was lucky that's all that happened,
The comments section have made it blatantly obvious than 95% of you commenting have never been to Detroit & this video does a poor job of illustrating the progress the city has made post-bankruptcy. Yes, the city is far from perfect, but it’s come along further than what this video is trying to exaggerate.
Exactly. I have worked in the city since about 2006, and I moved here in 2016. The progress made in that time is astonishing, and it's spreading all across the city.
Maybe it's simultaneously true that Detroit has come a long way since bankruptcy and that it is still in a pretty bad spot and has a ton of work to do?
@@krysatheo This is somewhat true and the video does touch on this, but doesn't emphasize it enough. Certain parts of the city have seen huge commercial and residential development that brings absolutely needed revenue to the city. Other neighbor hoods further out are neglected or not considered prime by developers at this point. The government absolutely failed the city, most of the hope will only come in the form of private money and that begins to sprawl outward from the various city centers.
I live here.
@@kaliboosebaydoun7494 in the TH-cam comments section? 🤔
Detroit is safer then before I was robbed at Woodward & Trowbridge (non Detroiter have no clue where this is) in 2014 now I'm down there everyday 2 times a day & nothing happens it's getting better but this didn't happen overnight & it will not be fixed overnight
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Woodward and Trowbridge -- ain't that Highland Park? Highland Park is rough.
@@nickycheese no it's Detroit
Perhaps a solution for Detroit and other cities in the Rust Belt would be to transform them into Special Economic Zones like China did, this region has many attractions, including a good location, good logistics infrastructure, consumer market and available labor. It is likely that many foreign and domestic investments would be made and this entire region could be revitalized.
the solution is to end welfare.
The Rust Belt is really positioned to explode in population and development due to rising rents in already established metro areas.
There do have to be jobs to provide a livelihood for all those new people, though. The Rust Belt can't always provide jobs for its existing residents, let alone a whole bunch of newcomers.
Not only lower rents. The midwest has limitless fresh water unlike the west which is burning.
@@StochasticUniverse maybe with the rise of remote work we’ll see more people move there
@@3markaw There is going to be a mass exodus from the west due to the water crisis. Detroit is a ground floor opportunity that doesn't come around very often.
I agree, but when,& if that happens then the rising cost of living will likely go up even higher. America's allowing it's own citizens to be priced out of a home. There's Capitalism....,& then there's unregulated capitalism. This will get ugly if things don't stabilize.
I lived in Detroit most of my life. I lived there when the law came down on Kwame. I lived there when the city started sinking. When factories shut down, when the city filed for bankruptcy. The high car insurance.
I had to leave the city. I still love this city. I go to Detroit every chance I get.
I just don't think I could ever live there again.
Did the law come down on Kwame or did he break some laws??
@@sofly7634 Yes he did. He bought an Escalade on the city credit card for his mistress. He may have been involved in a murder while serving as mayor and had a couple dirty cops carry the murder out.
I know he did a lot more just don't remember. I remember the governor at the time came to the city herself and removed him from office and next thing we know the district attorney is filing charges.
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Personally for me Detroit has always been a center of automobile industry, it is also famous for film Robocop, and local ice hockey team Detroit Red Wings
And Motown.
Robocop was filmed in Monesson, PA.
Where was the Tearing Down A Highway portion of this video?? It included everything BUT that...
If they're talking about removing 375, then Detroit will turn into Pontiac when they installed Wide Track Drive: giving potential visitors no reason to go into the city itself, just around it. Make no sense to me at all... and I was a resident of Detroit and frequent visitor when I lived in the northern burbs
Rents on homes and apartments in the city has gone up big time. Same with business leases on the buildings have sky rocketed. Pushing out long time businesses and residents that stuck with the city for years. This was happening before covid. It's shameful.
Isn’t this good for the economy
@@danrook5757 no technically speaking, if you only look at how much companies there are and how much they make, it is good(lower companies means higher density of monetary gain). However if you look at it for every individual(cause we all live), less jobs is very bad.
i DONT SEE HOW THAT IS A PROBLEM you can buy a home in detroit for 1 dollar.the best turn key 34k
@@dknowles60 what's the catch lolll
@@Zb_Calisthenic i see it is to hard for you to use google not to many catches very bad roads very high property taxes you may need a full auto Ak 47
For the past 50 years, Detroit's biggest problem has always been Detroiters.
Exactly..and as they move out, others are moving in and rejuvenating Detroit.
It's definitely about mindset.
@@jillpatton3432 Hmm, so what about the people who live here, that are also rejuvenating detroit? Do you understand how hard that is, especially without access to the same capital that those "others" have access to. I think you are really disrespecting the people who have stayed here and rebuilt this city. I am a teacher here and i find you comment highly disrespectful.
@@eddielacrosse2 .. fair point. Didn't mean to denigrate the good folks that stayed and worked to rebuild. My apologies.
As a Detroit that lives in Lafayette Park this is a damn honest assessment of what is going on.
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I also live in Lafayette Park. I agree. But people will take their own words for it and not from people who actually stay here.
I lived in Lafayette Park when it was first built 1963. It was great back then.
I used to live just north of that freeway and i can guarantee that the city's severe crime problems have nothing to do with the positioning of the freeway. Trust me.
Preach!!
This video doesn't discuss what they're replacing the highway with
It's gonna be replaced by a 6 lane boulevard(that reduces to 4 lanes on certain sections), cycle lanes and pedestrian footpaths
good point
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@@DKK the same political parties thought highway was a good idea x number of years ago is probably the same one that thinks this new plan is good now- it's probably not going to be people that are hurting right now
@@DKK disagree
In order to save the economy, everyone must go out and buy a $1500 folding phone and sign up for 10 streaming services. Get a $6 coffee every morning in your new ev, throw away all your perfectly good hd tv’s and buy bigger 8k tv’s… that’s really what these companies are banking on
I think Detroit is banking on people buying Ford pickup trucks, haha. Buying a $1,500 phone might help someplace, but it's not Detroit.
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Don’t start tearing down highways if you don’t have a good public transportation system
where do the public transit go if giant highways are where the public transit need to be? kinda hard to have both at the same time, hence why most places cut their public transit to build more highways...
@@baileyedwards3711 not sure the best place, but if they want to tear down the highway, they better start digging some subway tunnels. Cause right now the highways are hands down the fastest and most convenient way to travel in Detroit
Robert Moses destroyed inner cities to the point now people can’t envision that there is another way, instead of elevated highways they can start putting all intra city highways in trenches capped by deck parks like klyde warren park in Dallas or Frankie pace park in Pittsburgh paid for through public private partnerships that could spur economic development all along these corridors
Detroit has subpar public transportation
Count me as a fan of the city, and I hope it comes all the way back. Things are looking up!!!
My city is rebuilding itself brick by brick. It's a very rare opportunity to rebuild a major city. Its actually very exciting personally.
Baltimore is just sitting over here quietly waiting
@@Fellowtellurianlived in the DMV for 5.5 years. Y'all should've been rebuilt 20 years ago. The community got to be committed to the place. No amount money can fix a place without the people. My hometown knows a few things about blowing money.
The neighborhoods of Detroit are generally horrible. Hundreds of residential.blocjs are wiped out
@@timothykeith1367 I don't get the point of your comment.
@@1122slickliverpool Detroit lost almost 1.5 million residents since it's peak population and it's neighborhoods have been decimated. I once lived in Ferndale Michigan and am familiar with Detroit.
With deglobalization happening, I see cities like Detroit flourishing again and that's great for locals and the US as a whole.
Globalisation is exactly what nearly killed Detroit. Now planners are needing to rethink and reposition a past fever dream that became an undone reality.
Agreed!
"deglobalization".. are you on drugs?
Really..? Not really. The added growth from hipsters is small. The rise in population is largely poor folks reproducing. Detroit is DIRT CHEAP. Because there is NEARLY NO VALUE in properties - what pride does the poor show? None. When the house they're living in get to a point where significant repairs are needed, they just move. Why fix it if it's worth 15-$25,000 at top value....cost FAR MORE to renovate. The only development and "growth" are from the rich. Go on a block run behind those areas and you'll know... 'nuff said.
Lol. That's not happening.
What's done is done. The huge cost freeway of removal just seems like MORE $ wasted .
Why not build new housing with all the thousands of lots already available?
Most of them are polluted, have condemned housing/other buildings, and are owned by private individuals. The only way they get fixed is if zoning laws change and a complete demolition and rebuilding takes place
We have given Israel 128 billion while we have city’s like Detroit
Priceless! One of the significant reasons for the city's decline was the freeways built through Black Bottom & Paradise Valley and the resulting loss of "vibrant" Black neighborhoods. Yet it seems that this resulted in almost the entire city becoming a "Black neighborhood" which by their reasoning should be a very positive thing... right?
Well, they did, then the real biggest employers of Detroit, the car manufacturers closed down, leaving posts of jobless, both black and white. Those who had the money to pack up and go did.
Reminds me of that all white town that depended on coal and is now a drug infested, trodden down relick once coal industry left.
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I wish Detroit the very best. Unfortunately, wishes don’t help problems like this.
Detroit is a city that I am rooting for! However, it has a lot of abandoned neighborhoods and buildings.
I hope to see Detroit succeed and maybe New Orleans can learn from its success.
My parents grew up in Detroit in the 1930's and 1940's. When I look at the pictures of them from that time, Detroit is practically unrecognizable. Both of the neighborhoods that my parents grew up in are gone - I mean totally GONE.
My mother used to tell me how safe it was for her as a teenager to take the bus at night on her own - and to be outside in her neighborhood in the evening. By all accounts my parents had an idyllic childhood in Detroit. Sad, such a great city collapsed the way it did.
I hope it comes back better than it ever was - but that is going to be up to its current citizens.
The lifestyle in Detroit died in the 1950s when Democrats started running the city.
@@leonardcollings7389 The lifestyle in Detroit began to die in the 1950's and 60's when middle class Detroiters fled the city for the suburbs followed by the civil unrest of the 1970's and the collapse of the American Auto industry in the 1980's.
In the 2000's it was the Republican Party that said the US auto industry was dead and left it to die.
It was the Democratic Obama administration that said no, it isn't dead, and propped the industry up with federal money until it recovered. AND every nickel of that money was paid back to the federal government WITH interest.
Go get an education Lenny.
@@ScottA2345 The seeds of Detroit’s collapse were planted even as the economy boomed and the city grew in the mid-1900s. The Great Migration brought waves of African-Americans, and stoked racial tensions over housing and labor. Walkouts and TRUE RACE riots began as early as 1943, and discrimination would only accelerate from there. White-majority homeowner’s associations fought to maintain de facto segregation by race and class, with support from discriminatory regulations and programs. These groups staged campaigns to keep public housing out of white neighborhoods and to block public school funding. There were even crosses burned throughout the city in 1965. Where these efforts failed, white flight to the suburbs WITH THE BUILDING BOOM OF THE 60S provided the chance to start over with even more control. The ongoing construction of freeways to quickly move people to and from the city’s fringes bolstered this trend.
@@leonardcollings7389 people were discriminating against the crime.
Blessings to Detroit I hope they do bring the city back up
A as 🇬🇧, trained car mechanic, hearing the history of Detroit with cars, knowing it’s greatness from years gone by and as fans of all of their major sports teams, it really saddens me to see it this way.
@@gramma677conservative policies
Eye opening expose on the challenges Detroit faces. The infrastructure built for a population 3x the size of current is a giant weight on its back.
The fact that they have build less than 800 houses in over a decade is staggering, but understandable
The bankruptcy was the result of a giant failure to adapt, manage, and govern the city.
Not fewer than 800 houses. Fewer than 800 housing structures. Subtle but major difference.
A friend of mine lived in the suburbs of Detroit. When the collapse happened in 2009, they both lost their jobs and they put their house up for sale. But with no jobs in town, there were NO families moving into the Detroit area who needed to buy a home. The demand for homes in Detroit was non-existent, so they had to drop the price by over $200K. They never did find a buyer ... they said they reached the point where the market value of the home had dropped below what they owed on it, so they just dropped off the keys at the bank and had to walk away from it. Banker told them "don't feel bad, this is happening every day now".
@@earlmonroe9251 yeah, I know a few people who had that happen to them. I bought my house in 2004 at the peak of the housing bubble, by 2009 it was worth less than half of what I paid for it. I wasn't too concerned, because I expected the market to rebound and I wasn't intending to move any time soon. It took about ten more years for my house to regain its lost value. Thankfully I was able to stay employed so I didn't lose it, but I came close right around the same time your friends lost their house
As a Country we really need Detroit to bounce back positively moving forward and go back to being a big contributor to the United States 🇺🇸 economy I believe in Detroit
Crime is a topic clearly avoided in this video.
I thought all the crime areas are empty
Everybody and their mama know about Detroit and crime. That doesn't need to be discussed over and over again and plus crime is everywhere
@@misfittv313 : actually I was up north in muskoka on the weekend, there’s no crime there
this situation is still surreal for me, for example I can't imagine something similar in SF despite the fact that it is a modern version of Detroit a 100 years ago
Seems unlikely to happen to SF now because it’s a small area with not a lot of highways running through it.
Los Angeles on the other hand… you can convince me it may happen
@@kennethridesabike LA has unbeatable weather and major ports connecting us to Asia.
@@3ladeRunner California is experiencing major drought. Climate refugee experts mark Michigan as a destination for displaced climate refugees.
@@3ladeRunner It's also about to run short on clean drinking water if they don't make serious changes in the way they get it. That could cause them huge problems within the next few years.
@@formber humans are stubborn but inventive. LA will become way more water efficient. The examples of better efficiency also exist, like Las Vegas and Israel. Most of California’s usable water is used for agriculture.
I grew up in Ontario, Canadian neighbour. Nice to see you on the rebound. A special place to a Auto-Mechanic like myself.
My observations, thoughts: Oil-OPEC Auto-Japan Industry-Worldwide I witnessed it from afar. You did it once, You can do it again.
Good Luck USA from UK
You're a robot...?
@@nightslasher9384 real, I am in the UK now.
It will be back
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Detroit will be back
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I am from Detroit. Gotta keep most of Wayne County still stuck in 1990, so they can charge Seattle level rent along the Woodward area renovations from DIA to downtown -a controlled unfair economies of scale for their overpriced real estate / rent in a few select places. The road work is constant and abhorrent, it is a sham, a total racket. The freeway construction is constant, there is constant construction for decades -how can you have that much construction and terrible traffic if the population has decreased by over half -yet it is always h3ll.
Road work is the only industry left in this state. They literally build them to fall apart so they have a continuous revenue stream
Detroit has a lot of nice land, maybe they should do more urban farming
We already do that, plus, a good chunk of the aerial footage they’ve shown was from 10-15 years, so a lot of the Downtown adjacent land that was shown already has new buildings, condos, stadiums, & other structures on it.
They didn’t show that on here because sensationalism sells in the news media.
Not much sustainability in urban farming. I think it's a nice concept, but I don't it fixes anything.
You're offering good ideas, those aren't allowed in government. Unless that farm is owned by a special interest group that makes money from it, then it's a great idea!
@@stewlittle13 having condominiums and new buildings doesn't say much about a city. Overused and crowded ones sound proseperous. You can have new vacant cities.
They allow for this in Toronto Canada
Car centric development is extremely expensive, inefficient, and terrible for health. Detroit needs to get rid of these highways and build mixed use, walkable development coupled with public transport. These will be far cheaper and better for the average person in the long run.
Good overview. I’m going to be moving to Detroit this summer, and I’m really excited about it.
we need to hear more about Detroit bc I think it will serve as a huge indicator to how the Midwest’s rust belt will be revitalized
Na..not every cities have a auto industry to support their revitalization
@@thevinceberry The auto industry creates demand. E.g steel, fabrics, glass, aluminum, food etc, the rust belt is the gas to the automotive engine. This creates jobs in other places, its a significant ripple effect.
Most Rust Belt cities can't dig their way out of their problems. Most are overwhelmed with public sector unions. They are also very unfriendly to business that creates revenue. They want their pound of flesh in tax money where neighboring states or cities aren't as greedy. The thing most Rust belt cities lack is a right to work law. That is the first step.
If anything, the ability of Detroit to revitalize itself will be supported by its move AWAY from its crazy over-reliance on the car industry. Putting all its eggs in the one basket of the car industry was the root cause of all of Detroit's problems, and if they don't learn that lesson from their past then they'll be doomed to repeat it.
@@Paonporteur Disagree--if you need a union to get ahead, you are not much of a worker. The only people that benefit from the union are the higher ups, shop stewards and their cronies. When promotion is based on seniority not productivity you lose incentive to outperform.
I lived in metro Detroit.
Detroit is a crime wave. It's the people who live in Detroit that are the problem. I moved. Smartest move ever. I'm in silicon valley now. Which is better
Nothing says expertise about the living conditions and problems of Detroit like living in Farmington Hills.
@@scotchrobbins if I lived in Detroit I wouldn't be alive to write this post to you
Interesting how they didn’t highlight exactly what ignited the 1967 riots that was documented and made a movie about the racial tension near Black Bottom. At that time wypipo used it as time to burn all their homes and businesses to claim insurance policies and move to the suburbs. They also built 375 and 75 and 94 freeway through the heart of the black community. They also planted drugs in the 80s that REALLY took down Detroit. Let’s not forget about de-industrialization that displaced A LOT of jobs. Wages stayed the same. Property value never went up because no real industry (deindustrialization). It’s crazy. We have a tech hub now, and all sports in downtown. Honestly Detroit has to shrink the area. Our community is spread out (white flight). The neighborhoods are so wide. Either bring the community close together and utilize the remaining land for an infrastructure or allow the community to pay monthly for those abandoned lots to create local gardens, parks, rec centers, mini tech bubbles, etc. I know the potential Detroit has, I actually love this city. Born and raised lived on the west side and east side and metro Detroit. I know what this city needs. ❤️
I don’t want to live any closer to you people than I have to
I’m born and raised in Detroit, moved out the state in 2014 and it was the BEST decision. The only way for the city to truly gain and control economic value, is for them to minimize the city greatly and sell the available land so a new city can be established with new and better government.