Why Detroit Is Tearing Down A Highway
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- The city of Detroit is bouncing back from its legendary 2013 bankruptcy filing. Depopulation driven by the rise of global trade threw the city into insolvency. Since then, Detroit has imposed high property tax rates citywide while awarding abatements to commercial-scale developers. The tax, spending and placemaking policies in Detroit have drawn investors to the city in force, raising the local skyline alongside concerns about gentrification and displacement among the locals.
CLARIFICATION (Aug. 12, 2022): There were 708 housing structures built in Detroit between 2010-2019, not 708 homes as mentioned at 6:44 in the video.
A new wave of development is rippling through downtown Detroit.
“Walking around Detroit in 2008 or 2009 is not the same as walking around in 2022,” said Ramy Habib, a local entrepreneur. “It is absolutely magnificent what happened throughout those 15 years.“
Between 2010 and 2019, just 708 new housing structures went up in the city of Detroit, according to the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments.
Much of the new construction traces back to the philanthropic wings of large local businesses. For example, Ford Motor is nearing completion of a 30-acre mixed-used development at Michigan Central Station. The station sat abandoned for years as the city fell into bankruptcy.
Detroit’s decline into insolvency formed amid 20th century globalization in the auto industry, according to economists. The city’s population fell from 1.8 million to 639,000 in the most recent but controversial count by the U.S. Census. “With the population leaving, with the infrastructure staying in place, it meant strains on the city. Cumulatively, they started to mount over time,” said Raymond Owens III, a former senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
The 2007-08 Great Recession left another round of scars on the city as scores of homes fell into foreclosure. The U.S. Treasury Department has since funded the removal of 15,000 blighted structures in the city. “A lot of Black people are leaving the city. So sometimes that identity can change and shift in certain communities,” said Alphonso Carlton Jr, a lifelong Detroit resident.
Local leaders have used tax and spending policies to advance economic development downtown. In July 2022, the Detroit City Council finalized a tax abatement for the real estate developer Bedrock to finance the $1.4 billion Hudson’s site project. The abatement could be worth up to $60 million over its 10-year span. Bedrock is in a family of companies controlled by billionaire investor Dan Gilbert, who moved several of his businesses downtown in 2010.
Bedrock told CNBC that decision was consistent with the council’s handling of other major developments, due to high local tax rates. One local analysis suggests that in 2020, Detroit’s effective property tax rate on homes was more than double the national average. Detroit’s new tax, spending and placemaking policies have drawn the interests of bond investors in recent years, providing another source of revenue for the local government.
Watch the video above to learn more about Detroit’s escape from bankruptcy.
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Why Detroit Is Tearing Down A Highway
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.
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
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.
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?
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.
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 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.
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.😮
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.
its*
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.
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.
The attitude that "re-development is good, but gentrification is bad" is oxymoronic.
It’s so sad to see all of the gorgeous old homes just wilting away….as a old home lover it breaks my heart
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.
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.
@@bluebee5266 Stop being racist
I’m from Toledo but I go through Detroit about 2-3 times every year to visit family. I love the revitalization of the city and the progress I’ve witnessed over the last 6-8 years. I say when one American city grows and prospers we all do. Toledo has started to do some things too. I’m excited for this whole area (northwest ohio, southeast Michigan) to make a comeback.
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
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🤣
7:57 I like how she avoided saying schools, healthcare, infrastructure libraries etc etc, rather just softening the blow by saying pensioners and museums
What’s important is to make Detroit NOT dependent on one major industry again 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.
Not a mystery developers said hell no, it's crime ridden and couldn't even handle having a grocery store.
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.
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 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.
This was a great informational video. Keep making more like this CNBC!
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 😊
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.
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.
People keep voting D and keep getting the same results. Who'd have thought?
@@gramma677conservative policies
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.
As a Michigan resident, same story for forty years. We are rebuilding Detroit.
Keep voting one party and expect change 🤡🤦
Youre gonna invite gentrification.
@@randomguy7175 negative iq post
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 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
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!!
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.
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
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!
Detroit's comeback is going to be huge! Watch!
I'm excited for Detroit's future.
I visited Detroit in the 90s as a child and I could not believe how my family could live there. It was sketchy then, so I could just imagine what it's like today in 2023.
It’s actually a lot better. I invite you to visit.
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.
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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
"You can either hear about the city or be here" - that's so true. I have lived here for 6 months and I loved it. Before I just heard bad things about it. Super special vibe in DTown - loved it a lot.
The same politicians who now lament the interstates going through their cities would be screaming about exclusion if their cities had been bypassed.
Victim hood mentality. They love it.
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.
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.
Love, Hate, and STRESS sums up my time in Detroit. I love the people, culture, and locations like Belle Isle and the Eastern Market district. I hated the long winters, and finally it was stressful living in an area where there wasn’t a diversified economy. Literally, a lot of benefactors were based upon how many cars were being sold.
A self-inflicted wound needing to be addressed -
I think a lot of people don’t take advantage of educational opportunities as a result of historically working in manufacturing whereby the jobs are often unskilled, but can pay pretty well. However, those tuition options that the bigger companies offer often goes unused. This of course is detrimental because additional education is so important long term, for example the way we work, learn, play, and functionally live now is based upon technology. I will like to see my hometown ready for the generational changes in masses.
I envision seeing Detroit having a high rate of Associate, Bachelor, and Master degree earners. Currently, Detroit is ranking too low in this area. - Which is a consequence for many of its failures. However, there is hope in the fact that the area is becoming a technology hub as once again the automobile is on the frontline of that paradigm. The newer vehicles are coming off the lines with incredible technology built into them, which means we need people ready to design, implement, support, secure, and enhance that technology. Detroit has always been a city of leading innovators from the automobile, the phenomenal architectural infrastructure, to the wonderful music and fine arts scene. It now has to take the right steps to bring itself back to greatness. Attracting skilled people to the city and developing the ones already there is key to revitalizing the city back to its glory; and tearing down that highway - a symbol of bigotry and separation would be instrumental in doing that.
Interstate hwyways instead of reliable trains, destroyed Detroit neighborhoods
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.
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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It is with GREAT PRIDE I can point to a building at 1:07 and say I called it "home" in the 90s. There is a very special warm feeling in downtown Detroit that I've never encountered in another city across the globe.
Count me as a fan of the city, and I hope it comes all the way back. Things are looking up!!!
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
@@wildsidetv313 : actually I was up north in muskoka on the weekend, there’s no crime there
Can't believe they are blaming Detroit problems on a freeway. Boy are they out of touch.
I'm sure Russia probably put it there.
Would a change in building codes go very far in reducing construction costs? Something like building type and minimum square feet?
They have light rails that go all over the city now. It’s growing !!!
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.
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.””
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.
I love that there was no mention of how Union greed contributed to the destruction of manufacturing in this area of the US. That is arguably THE reason the city declined and is in the current state it is in. How no one wants to see this is amazing.
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.
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.
“You can either be here (Detroit) , or you can hear about it. Which do you want to do?”
I think ‘hearing about it’ is enough for me personally. I don’t think I am alone with that decision.
Downtown Detroit is a great place. I live here, and I love it for the most part. Detroit / Michigan summers are hard to beat.. But that is coming from someone who lives here. You could consider that something that you are hearing about.
Everything and every place is not for all people. Everyone in Detroit is not living in the state of poverty, black or white. Life is good for them!
This report answered the question why Detroit will demolish a highway, but I was really interested what the city planners will build in its place. How will the city reroute traffic? This is a bold move by a city. I’m wishing the best for the people living there.
If your interested in learning about how we can make our cities financially strong I highly recommend you watch Not Just Bikes’ ~8 video series called Strong Towns.
@@MasonJarGaming thanks very much for the recommendation. I will check it out.
Highways remove people off of side streets that contain local businesses. Its not like these people wont still be able to get down town. But now they will drive past places they didn't see before and may patronize these local places thus creating growth.
The new plan is badddd. It's an 8 lane monstrosity that is *not* pedestrian friendly, Almost exactly the same infrastructure, only now it's surface level. I don't see how it's gonna be an improvement, especially considering out expensive it will be: th-cam.com/video/7cESS_C0t2M/w-d-xo.html
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
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.
My grandfather grew up in Detroit
Detroit still is Ans can be so so so so so much more aweome
It has the chance to become a great city!
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
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
@@user-Jamie218 Boston and settle didnt get rid of freeways, they both said look we can improve traffic and the overall environment and spur growth by placing the freeway underground, which is the best solution for the traffic from the Detroit Windsor tunnel, area resident and business.
Detroit has subpar public transportation
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.
CNBC, I really enjoyed this video, so I hit the like button!
They never explored the destruction of 375. Detroit’s strongest assets are its sports teams and venues. Traffic is already hard when two events happen at the same time. With 375 gone, it will be impossible to enter or leave the city
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.
As a City resident (born a raised) I’m proud of all the work we are doing to bring it back ❤
Seems like such a beautiful city with rich history. I hope Detroit can be restored one day 😊
Why couldn’t they lock in tax rates for residents that choose to stay in their neighborhood instead of leaving? They might have to keep up their properties better to fit in with new development around them, but they could choose to sell when their property rises in value instead of being forced out.
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.
@@ResortDog Before Duggan is was like $12k to demo a defunct vacant house in Detroit. He promised it would become cheaper because he espoused $12k was too expensive. Said he would shop around the country for contractors. Under him it is now over $50k to demo a vacant defunct house in Detroit, and the contractors are his buddies. This is only one of many examples of false promises and corruption committed because of an ignorant general populace voting demographic.
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
Love his background in the Oldsmobile museum.
An Oldsmobile was by Father's first car when he turned 16. He still has the logo that was welding to the back of the car.
Ripping out a freeway, that would be a bad move.
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
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.
In regard to the last question “would I rather be here or hear about it?” I most definitely will rather hear about it. I don’t want to go to Detroit 💀
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.
@@kenb3552 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.
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
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
My grandparents lived in Detroit in the 1940s they said it was a booming city a great place to live ,let hope they can bring back Detroit business.
Great story .power to the people of Detroit. I was down town !!!!! Amazing
The solution to the city’s problems are kinda simple. Rezone to allow more high rise apartments which lowers the price of housing, take the highway the hell out of the inner city while providing more walkable streets, and invest in more public transportation like a revised metro.
All of these would dramatically improve the standard of living while lowering the costs. The problems arose in the first place because the city prioritized the rich suburbanites that moved as soon as their jobs were threatened. They didn’t feel any connection to the city, they were connected to their income.
If the city wants any hope for a better future then they need to reinvest in the people that live there. Use the land from the ruined neighborhoods to build mix zoned apartments. The improvements can only really start there. Investment isn’t gentrification if it improves the communities that live their already rather than appeal to the distant investors.
they just removed the high rises as they turned into rat holes as will anything if you don't know how to keep it up and the people who live in them DON"T
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.
Place keeps getting better and better... the new bridges will tie the city together. The homes are being rebuilt. Bright future for Detroit
Slowly getting better.
My state is going this way. People do not understand, because they are in love with cars,cheap labor and big green lawns.
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 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 blew up into a manufacturing bastion; serving as an incredible example of the third wave of the industrial revolution. The problem was they put their eggs into one basket. Detroit was once full of amazing and larger than life architectural feats. The factories closed. Greed doubled down. The people that could leave did. All that's left is a vacuum of poverty and disparity. The city may grow back, but property tax levels should be recognized as predatory and significantly lowered. Also, Detroit needs industry to keep it going. It needs people to keep it going. If they can't afford to live there, then they won't.
The producers left because the Africans became too violent.
"If you think the problem we created is bad wait 'till you hear our solution" said every government everywhere.
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."
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 was born in Detroit, and moved away at age 12. I've been following the ups and downs of the city since then, and I certainly wish Detroit well. It seems like the very act of getting some action going (yhe Gordie Howe Bridge, the rebuilt Michigan Central Station, the work downtown, the River Walk) bespeak a message that Detroit is still far from a dead issue. Don't forget, Detroit came back fron the 1805 fire. It can come back from the recent blight too.
you can either be here or you can hear about it.
I want to live in Detroit but as long as the city still has lots of corruption and killing. I might just stay hearing about it, for now.
So people complain about the blight city does nothing and its okay. people start moving back and fixing those houses and living in the city and suddenly its gentrification.
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!
@@steve19811 A lot of the blame can be placed on NACTO's pure stupidity!!!
Detroit will rise again, emphasis has to be on sustaining a higher quality of education, and willingness to explore various ways to create revenue.
I am a current Ohio resident getting ready to move right outside of Detroit. It's an absolutely beautiful city and has a real excitement and lots of history. What really saddens me is the gentrification that has taken place up there, wiping out neighborhoods and not putting up the sound walls on 75 until you drive up about 8-9 miles north of downtown. It still seems as tho there is a huge divide between those in the city and those that live in the suburbs. The fact that they want to start another highway in 2027 is kind of ridiculous considering there are already 3 main highways that should be maintained first!! Not to mention, they're building a new US/Canadian bridge. One project at a time Detroit, OK??!!
You totally missed the highway thing. They are looking to tear it out, not build a new one. It needs to go.
@@ChristopherBurtraw Ahh makes sense!
@@katstaff317 in fairness, you didn't miss it. I rewatched and the video isn't clear on it, I had already known about the proposals so I missed the lack of clarity.
I can see why you're moving to Detroit from Ohio. Ohio has nothing to offer citizens in Ohio in the first place. So Detroit eye candy really sparkles in an Ohio dead person's eyes.
Hope you don't become a crime victim when you get to the big "D". You'll be wishing for the green grass of farms back in Ohio. Beware sucker.