Try to make it to West Virginia, Alabama and Louisiana. People think this doesn't affect whites as well, which is why they look away without caring. We need solidarity on this issue.
Damn. I feel so sorry for the kids who have to grow up in these environments. It just reminds me to be greatful for all the things I have, knowing that not all kids are lucky.
Guess how much money it costs to clean up the trash in your front yard? 0.00 dollars. These people would live like this no matter the amount of money they had. I'm from Detroit and watched it collapse. I have no sympathy.
@@jessgatt5441 wdym. The kids never chose to grow up there. You don’t get to choose who and what type of family you grow up in. These kids were just born in this environment, they never asked to be born
I was raised in Detroit, its always been a rough city. But it didn't look anything like this growing up, this is so sad to see, im glad my mother moved me down south when I was in HS.
@@rgbforever4561 nah. what happened was GMC, Ford, Chevrolet, etc laid off people way back when the recession hit. A lot of big companies fled elsewhere. That's where it all started.
What a damn shame! I grew up on Detroit's east side from the 1950's through the 1970's. Very familiar with all these areas. Detroit was a great city at that time. I'm heartbroken for what it has become.
I can remember a time this was a city you took your family's to on vacation. Those WERE one nice houses, with new American cars sitting in front. Now it's a example of what BAD political choices will bring.
@@dfamous6036 I hate to say it, Joe, but that's the truth. I grew up near 7 Mile and Harper. I used to date a guy who lived off Chalmers where the first scenes in this video were shot. Made me literally sick to see it now. His house was gorgeous! My parents and grandparents believed every thing the Democrats said. Had them convinced that Democrats cared about working people. Jimmy Carter turned them into Independents who voted Republican and never looked back. I miss Detroit but I know it will never be as I remembered it.
Yes I feel for you my friend must be really hard for you to see these Detroit neighborhoods like they are now, use some of the marijuana revenue, to rebuild these neighborhoods that's what I say
@@ralphmelvin1046 A nice thought, Melvin, but people can't move to a place that is a hostile environment for businesses to thrive. No jobs, no money, no ability to maintain homes or survive, for that matter. The tax revenue Detroit has lost from creating an anti-business, anti-manufacruring attitude is enormous. If Detroit still has a city income tax, they need to get rid of it. Property tax-wise, it's STILL cheaper to live in the suburbs with more and better public services. The whole city government needs an overhaul and the state needs to help too.
@@kathy2trips exactly the state needs to help. And you know who can also help, Dan Gilbert and all these billionaires who live in Michigan, they're busy building new sports arenas, spending money on that. Now I love sports myself but listen this is more important obviously
to imagine that people used to live in those houses once. kids were playing around them, families having barbecues in the back yard, the future was bright. i guess no one ever thought that it would all end up like a war zone..
All because the controllers of the city and state were greedy and made it rain for themselves and their ilk, and all the public will deal with it and so this is entirely about greed and willful ignorance
That's what I always think of too when I watch these videos or drive through run down areas. The history of what once was and the transition to the current
I work up there and from what I hear, the taxes are ridiculous. I'm assuming even if you wanted to fix one up it'd be nearly impossible to afford to live there. It's a shame we can give billions to other countries for the exact same thing that's happening in our own. I cant understand the litter and trash everywhere. Some of the piles I've drove by look like they've been there for months or longer.
All your jobs that were once American - shipped to China, Mexico, Indonesia, India.. et al. Voting for political parties that did NOT put America first is why we have this video.
I got news for ya, no political party has America's interests first. All of them have their own pockets first, and it has been that way for longer than anybody alive today has been. What we lost as a country was the ability to shoot our leaders dead and start over when they got too corrupt.
I've never been to Detroit..... and I was just imagining the once beautiful, safe, sprawling neighborhoods and homes....that once -upon-a-time stood on those decaying, crumbling, crime ridden, and just sad to look at homes. When the video started and he drove past those kids playing....my heart just felt so sad for them living in those horrible conditions. I pray all those kids living in Detroit graduate from high school....and get into a wonderful university or college as far away from Detroit.....and never look back.
this guy is showing off the absolute worst parts of the 140 mile city. detroit has MANY beautiful and historic neighborhoods, filled with mansions, victorian style homes, historic apartments, 200+ repaired beautiful parks for children to play in, renovated or newly constructed recreation centers popping up everywhere, etc. these type of videos only enforce the most negative and dark things of the city and lead people who have never been here to say things like you are and scare them away from even giving the city a chance. it’s disgusting
Believe me there are many of us that remember and have photos of these cities being beautiful once. This is what happens when there are NO Jobs. They sold us all out decades ago.
Go visit please!! They said how the Southside of Chicago was so crazy and messed up. I didn't see it! The media will show you what they want you to see. I live in Charleston SC now and baby let me tell you. Plenty of areas look like people built the house they self without knowledge of. So bring them cameras here please.
And just to think there was a time when those houses were new and people were super happy to live there , this is 100% the result of the political party in charge of that area , when the politicians blame someone else and play the victim agenda .
I’ve seen a clip Somewhere on you tube that does back in the day and find the same street / spot now. Really sad and the place fell to pieces in. Like 15 years…. As soon as the factories closed. Really good lessons in history. The clip is there search Anton speed Detroit timeline and also others blight then and now / before and after comparisons … it should be in the results - u will know it when u see it
The real shame of all this is that before "white flight" in the 1950's and 60's these were all beautiful well kept up neighborhoods... Gee,I wonder what happened?
@@shirley9209 why even question where I was. Reality is prior to the riots of 1967, Detroit was a thriving metropolis full of industry, the riots, the burning buildings caused many to leave . Those who had money left, those who remained were the poor. Capiche?
Again, a lot of those “big homes” are multi-family homes. It doesn’t take away from the rest of your point but most people in Detroit didn’t have big ass houses all to themselves
Back in the early 1950s Detroit was a terrific place to live. I spent 6 weeks with my parents there during a time when work was hard for my father to find in MA. So, he found work there. Detroit was building all new schools, etc. Homes were really kept up, and people were proud to live there.
The 1950s and 60s were the golden age for this once booming city because companies like Ford and General Motors created millions of jobs for automotive workers but flashfoward half century later and the town is now riddled with violent crime and especially unemployment since many employees at the plants were layed off due to economic changes with most of these groups moving to countries like China.
I was just in Detroit last June 2024 and that is what is happening. Community parks and mini farms, greenhouses springing up. Quite green and lots of open spaces.
There are still beautiful parts of Detroit.Don’t let the ruin porn fool you. Go to Palmer Woods,Indian Village,University District to name a few amazing neighborhoods within the city limits.All of what you see is true but there is so much more you don’t see that would surprise you in a good way.Detroit has some of the most amazing architecture left in America.Some of the old homes are true works of art.js
@@puertoricangringo3144 I agree, but the problem with beautiful areas such as Palmer woods etc is that they are surrounded by battle grounds of crime and violence, such as Woodward ave and Highland Park!
You are an eastsider. Right? Go over to Grand River and Schoolcraft. Pretty bleak there too. Then do tours through Palmer Park, Indian Village, and Rosedale Park North.
Have you ever noticed the majority of the houses being saved are brick and mortar? Not the buildings built using framing and sidings of various descriptions, there is a major lesson in that, also roof construction is a major factor on the longevity of a building. Ticy tacky McMansions are not worth much in reality.
@@Right-Is-Right Detroit has lost thousands of brick bungalows. Detroit was once a more prosperous city than most of the U.S. Modern houses with synthetic based water and air barriers ought to endure well, although the newer materials have not yet been proven long term. When properly installed and inspected the newer houses should have a long life. Replacing asphalt with polymers ought to make shingled roofs last longer, but metal roof generally last longer than shingles A steeper pitch roof with larger overhang can help prevent water damage. Even the best constructed home needs regular maintenance.
@@timothykeith1367 The only thing you forget is the inspection you mention and the following maintained you do not, such as painting timber siding adds to the overall cost of the home. Making the modern crap you push more expensive over the life of the home. then you still have the problem that the thin shitty materials being pushed are not worth the price they demand and are not good at standing up to storms, adding even more to the lifetime costs. I forgot to mention, I work in the construction industry and would be pushing the newer crap if I was in it for the money, But I prefer to deliver a product to get recommendations for work, not yearly maintenance fees from suckers, that does not seem right.
They know that it's much more profitable to build houses in a new city and have them abandon the old city (creating an avalanche effect) than it is to genuinly improve the old community and therefore the quality of lives of the people who live there. Sad when you think about the memories made in each house and the families that passed through them and the stories they hold. And now they rot like ruins of an ancient world.
Thats Michigan as a whole. Go to the UP and see lots of abandoned houses, towns, factories. Michigan doesn't care about blight like other states. They just let it rot. I live 500 miles north(still in Michigan but past the mackinac bridge) and my neighborhood looks about the same. Trash everywhere, old buildings caving in, spray paint, potholes, bullet holes in signs.
Do you think it's because it is Dems running it now i know the car manufacturing left i live in Cleveland and when the steel company's left. Cleveland decide lots of neighborhoods look like this and we have a leftists city leaders
I grew up around here just east of where the video begins. Hasse and Davison , there's nothing left, the houses are burnt down. It looks like a jungle you can't see sidewalks or the alley. When I grew up it was beautiful, you could play in the alley or the street. How times have changed. so sad
There are still stunningly beautiful parts of the city,and a very vibrant downtown.You just don’t see much of that in TH-cam.Still a long way to go but progress is being made.
Exactly. They keep us divided, red and blue, like gang members. While they are two wings of the same corrupt bird. The real divide is between the haves and the have nots.
You are totally WRONG billionaires had nothing to do with it it was stupid corrupt city politicians who many went to prison for stealing the public funds. Do some research before making stupid analysis
@@longbeachrick4680 Just to see, I looked up the current leadership in the city. The mayor and city council all represent the same crooks that have made Detroit into what this video shows. Detroit hasn’t had fully competent leadership since the mid 1950’s. Given the people haven’t learned to this point, I don’t see them learning in the future. Detroit won’t get any better.
@@yvonneadams9334 the Rethuglikkkan party has a long history of creating and perpetuating poverty. The party that protects the wealthy and oppresses the working class. But they give them permission to hate, and to kkkult folk that's everything. The party whose leader is an unregistered sex offender with a porn star wife. The whole thing is...just throw it away and start over.
So many people spent there whole working life in the public and private sector, in and around Detroit but when they retired they took there retirement and pension checks and moved out of state and are no longer a part of the tax base. Many of those old homes have good lumber and other building material That can be used in new buildings. the way that building material has increased in cost it could be cost effective.
Wow, so sad and completely ruined. A lot of these were such nice homes once upon a time, with whole families who lived and grew up in these places and now they're just ghosts about to be gone. Great video
If those old houses were in the heart of Atlanta , Chicago , LA , San Francisco , NYC or any other major city that's getting gentrified they would be fixed and worth a lot of money right now ...But since they're in a America's toilet bowl city they don't have a chance ..
@@blast4me754 I understand you calling it a toilet bowl, but why? Political corruption? Lost economic opportunity? 85% of the births to impoverished unwed mothers? All that is true, and contributing to the problems,but “toilet bowl” is a facile claim.
It was designed by Democrat politicians such as Lyndon Johnson and Patrick Moynihan. To destroy family , a father must be absent order for single mother to raise and keep having babies out of wedlock. A guy was working 6 days a week to support his family. But baby mother was so upset she kick him out and decide to collect welfare because she was collecting more money from government for having babies. This is modern day crisis. This was design to destroy black families. Bill Clinton made a three strike you are out. If black kid committed 3 minor offense then he must do time in jail. So he can not get a job but could apply for welfare. Do you think he blame Democrats for his misery, he will blame Republicans in a heart beat because he was brainwashed by liberal politicians especially by their own religious leaders. They also get paid by government to keep their own people under water or kept in the plantations. So sad
because the rich businessman & politician want more profit rather then helping their own countrymen , & politician do not care their citizen as long they have the money to put it on their pocket. that what they call u.s & western democracy.
I lived on a street like this on Alter Rd, age birth to 3 years old. I always thank God and my dad for getting us out of there in 1967 after the big riot.
If you believe it, the houses in Detroit was once put together alot better then the houses of today, the old timers put pride in their work rather then fast ass jobs.
@@robertosandoval9094 We give 10 trillion a decade to our military with no pushback. Yet, they've trained everyone to say we're broke. You know what 10 trillion every decade can do for this society? We would have floating cities by now. Instead, since the 70s, we've moved 50 trillion from the bottom 90% to the top 1%.
Can't believe the amount of garbage every where. It looks like at one time it was a nice place to live. Think the partial burned houses would at least be demolished.
This is what happens when people move and they don’t maintain their homes. Usually the most destructive thing is the lack of roof maintenance. Once the water starts entering in, and the rest of the home starts to rot quickly. I remember the 1960s we used to observe that every neglected home had a brand new Cadillac in it. It’s recollections like mine that never make it into the history books. Instead people will re-spin the facts and try to blame somebody else. Even now, any new business that pops up in Detroit is run by an immigrant. The traders just have no desire to do the hard work of a business
I'm from Detroit, born and raised. Most times I see these videos I be thinking, where the fuck is this?? I'm from the west side. But. You can go to any city and look into the worst areas and say, look here yall, it's messed up!! Love mu city!! Encourage all watching to visit.
I looked up the street names... I was born at st. john's hospital. mom and dad and grandparents lived there in the area you're driving around. went to school with family member of randazzo's fruit market... Used to be pretty nice place to live. Later we moved up Schoehnerr Rd. into Warren. Sad to watch the death of Detroit...
I don't know why but your videos in a weird way are therapeutic. Probably due to my nostalgic feelings towards that city. In a future video please drive up Beland street right across from Mt Olivet Cemetery. I lived there as a kid in the 80's between Sauer & Clough St.
I’d like to imagine that at one point in time, these areas were striving and full of life. Those homes were once filled with laughter and love. Shits sad
I grew up in Detroit until I was 14. A year after the riots we moved to the suburbs along with many others. I've gone back only to find empty blocks where there were bustling neighborhoods. So many kids out playing. I can't tell you what a beautiful city Detroit was in the 50's and 60's. It hurts my heart to see what it has become.
You can tell it was good 👍🏻 these are lovely large old houses . Displacement of poor people from the south and car plant closures to foreign countries did this ‼️ and now it’s not just Detroit , so many once boom towns are failing . American politicians need to take a long hard look at their policies , spending , immigration , business , agriculture , manufacturing and housing ‼️‼️ You don’t need to be Biden , Harris or AOC to see this not working all over the country !!!
For once I would like to see the flip side of this Detroit is a huge city. That's meant to hold two million people. Detroit East and West really have some very beautiful neighborhood as well. Beautiful streets that no houses are spaced out, or torn down or burned a sight for sore eyes or abandoned. I know I was a transportation driver for 20 years. And I also was a numerator for the sensors Bureau. Sure you have bad neighborhoods but you also have the beautiful streets and neighborhoods. Let's see some of that for a change.
itd be interesting if you drove around the neighborhoods near hamtramck. the houses are all run down and they're squeezed in together so tight you can't even walk between two houses sideways, it's the weirdest thing ive ever seen as a non urbanite
Now go and show all the areas that have been rebuild go and show how beautiful down town housing and areas look especially at night the D has some nice places to live and some bad just like every other major city in America
The U.S. economy has restructured with out-sourcing, off-shoring, globalization, A.I. and software programs allowing corporations to simply cut large numbers of workers. Jobs left now have no benefits, contracts & pay little... with layoffs coming as soon as HR can figure a way to run even leaner.
I read through the comments in this thread and everyone is quick to blame one political party or the other, one race or the other, one religion or the other and that is the problem and the reason these neighborhoods look the way they do. You all spend so much time blaming one another that nothing ever gets fixed, you all are so intent in proving you have the biggest douchebag in office that you couldn't give two shits about what happens in your lives. There isn't just one thing that caused this, its is a multitude of things that caused these neighborhoods to look this way.
When my dad saved enough he moved us from the projects of Cincinnati to a neighborhood in Detroit just like these. Those homes were beautiful. If you haven't seen pictures from the 70s then you have no way of knowing. Once that neighborhood took on more welfare hood types and went down he moved us to another neighborhood, 7 Mile. Another beauty. And in 10yrs it went down too. Now, most of Detroit looks like this. At 18 I broke the hell out and didn't look back.
Ironically their love of the automobile was one of the primary reasons they ended up as they are now. It wasn't so much the welfare queens that like to have too many children on one income, they are the effect, the main cause was the deindustrialization of inner-city Detroit and then white flight that occurred which meant that the cities tax base, and most of the main employers, all left. The city's only claim to fame was the car industry, and once foreign car markets proved to make better cars, that killed GM, Chrysler, and Lincoln, and thus, Detroit. Once those companies failed, white flight to suburbs occurred. The other issue was building freeways which meant that white Americans didn't have to live in the city at all to work. Instead, they can commute which further hurt Detroit's economy. Lack of public transportation infrastructure also meant that living in the city was not convenient enough for most people which lead to further abandonment. It was death by overreliance on a dying industry, sheer incompetency, complacency by American car companies since they failed to innovate, and a decrease in population that led to Detroit being the shit hole that it is today.
@@colechapman6976 are you kidding me ? you are completely wrong about this, the reason you mentioned is only one of the many reasons why people fled to the suburbs. I am sorry but your comment has a undertone of hatred against cars. stop with your propaganda bullshit. Cars are here to stay. we need them. my job requires that I have a 4x4 truck with a range in gas far exceeding that of any electric car/truck . If government outlaws combustion engine vehicles its my whole livelihood that goes with it
Your dad had a work ethic along with the desire to better himself and his family. Welfare defeats that work ethic and makes people dependent on government. They believe success is measured by how cool your car looks.
I’m Not From Detroit But Gosh It Looks So Depressing In That Area Smh Oh How Blessed I Am To Live In A Good Area In HOUSTON TEXAS I Also Know The Feeling To Live In A Bad Area Oh Has God Brought Me A Long Way🙌🏾💗
Whats most weird for me is a sequence of abandoned houses and then a single clean and nice house with car like you are the only person living in the whole block
The tree aspect. When these places were in their prime, the trees were kept. Great documentary. Each abandoned house was once a family story. There's a double garage at one point, right on the street now overgrown with vines. In its day though, whoever owned it definitely had some fun with that.
Detroit used to be called the Paris of the midwest because of all the trees. They formed a canopy over the streets. They were elm trees and were wiped out by a disease call Dutch Elm Disease. It was an invasive insect that burrowed under the bark and slowly killed the elms.
Detroit was once referred to as the Paris of the West. A truly cosmopolitan city and America's financial hub. Then the Democrats took control. Heartbreaking.
Im 59 , I live in Rochester MI. 25 miles north of this shit hole. The jobs went to the suburbs, the very corrupt Coleman Young/Kwame Kilpatrick ruined the rest of this mess. I am a Realtor, I worked for the banks from 2005-2012 selling these properties to investors for less than 2k! It all went back to this crap when the neighborhoods worth it were cannibalized when the rehabs the Chinese investors started were ruined. It all royally sucks!
Im thinking Detriot would do better to give homeless a house on 5 year defered property tax and give them access to materials to fix it up at what the materials cost the city is what the homeless to homeowner pays . If in 5 years they have not fixed the home up to a livable standered and brought themselves to a level where they can start paying the yearly property tax then the city takes the home back and levels it or offers it to another homelass family. I mean hell it's worth a shot and if the homeless have a home chances are the can get a job or start their own job laws service bbq shack in a empty lot something . It's a hand up not a hsnd out and im sure 3-4 out of 10 will fail due to drugs alcohol and or mental illness but the 6 that do become productive members of the comunity it's a win win . Truth is the only way this city is going to come back is new leaders that are willing to device programs to give people a hand up like go to college full time and the city pays your rent or morgage as long as you are actively enrolled and attending your classes .
When you live in country like I'am living at moment (Croatia), who has been in war like 30 years ago, can't imagine seeing neigborhoods like this one 30 years after. So unsafe and destroyed. Crazy!! What country you have pretty much don't care about it. Sad.
What is it like to live in neighborhoods like this today? There were a few homes that offered a little glimpse of what Detroit was and maybe could be. They were always followed by seemingly endless boarded up, burned out hulks surrounded by mounds of trash and debris. We ask the people who live there to "pull themselves up." How hard is that really? Could you do it? I didn't grow up in Detroit but in another rust belt city. The same thing happened. Industry collapsed and the jobs evaporated. The home that was my family's from about 1910, in a solidly middle-class neighborhood, was torn down, the lot plowed over. It breaks my heart to see my old street. You can blame politicians or big companies. There's plenty of blame for them. But we did it to ourselves, too. What did we do to stop it? Who bought the foreign cars? The phones from China? The clothes from India? The shoes from Vietnam? We did. By doing that, WE exported those jobs that kept cities like Detroit thriving. There's a saying: Sow the wind; reap the whirlwind. We have the crop we planted. If we want to make it better, we need to make better choices. And demand our leaders make better choices. And we need to stop thinking of ourselves and start thinking of our children and their children and their children and on.
I can remember going to to my dad's favorite bar on Friday nights to cash his check , it was on 7 mile and John R. That was in the 60s , now I live on the Arizona, Mexico border in Rio Rico Arizona, two worlds apart...
Detroit's suburbs were once the envy of big city life in America. But all that changed about 55 years ago when the government started regulating business models that once made America prosperous. As regulations increased, companies started moving out of the city taking their business someplace else.
Da tristeza mirar todo un pueblo destruido no se si sea por la violencia o por desempleo o por la gente floja que no quiere trabajar porque estamos en el país más rico para estar en esa situación pero el gobierno debe de hacer algo al respecto porque ese triste para los niños que viven en ese lugar
how about the owners of these empty buildings? in my hometown in Germany theres no chance to get a place to build a house. In detroit there is so much place but no people lol
Many of the owners died, owed taxes, or it was foreclosed. You can buy these houses for as low as $1k. Detroit has a website showing all the abandoned houses for sale.
they are largely abandoned, forfeited properties. you can buy them cheap but there are hidden rules like you must totally rehab the property quickly or they forfeit back the whole thing. there are few takers since it is extremely expensive to rehab these places to meet all code requirements and very few buyers interested in such things to recoup your money. way too risky of an investment.
Damn, would love to have so much space, in switzerland - Bern, where i live, i need to pay 400 for a small music room and 1400 for a small appartment. having a house like this would be the dream, nice garden, some aaple trees in it, an old wooden house... sadly there is a lot of crime going on, i guess.
Yet here we are helping these other countries with financial assistance jumping into wars that we shouldn't be in etc while we have homeless vets and places like this. I say close the borders stop helping everyone else and clean up our own country and take care of the people here first!!!
Detroit was a nice place to grow up in the 1960's. The playgrounds had alot of kids. Sometimes you could do arts & crafts for a small fee at the park. You could go to the park & play pick up games of baseball or football. They had a basketball court too. I always kept a baseball mitt on my handlebars. Diack Park was my favorite. No adults were involved in our games. We had to be home for dinner & when the street lights went on The 1967 Riot caused white flight. My family moved to another neighborhood, but stayed in the city. I was from the Westside. I think this video is the Eastside? Brightmoor or Blightmoor is on the Westside & is similar.
Honestly, if I was a reasonably wealthy American, I'd buy a couple of these houses as an investment. Those ruined properties are so unbelievably cheap that it's pretty much impossible for them to get any cheaper, so you might get yourself a nice profit in a decade or two, or at worst you will end up with a modest loss. It's almost free real estate.
Add to my comment.... We, as Detroiter's are as much displaced people as others are from other war zones throughout the world. The only difference is that ours was all due to the economics of racism in Detroit. Much quieter except for July 23, 1967. The final stroke.
First off there is no such thing as thr economics of racism. Secondly that is all due to it being the reflection of the people living in the neighborhood. I am sick and tired of everyone saying its always due to racism when in fact it isnt. It is due to the fact that races are different, period. Look up the video about Spanish Lake and see for yourself. That place was a beautiful all white place and then over time became atleast 94% non white and turned into a violent war zone. That is not being racist it is being HONEST, FACTUAL and REAL. We are NOT all the same oeriod!! Being racist is someone who believes they are superior over another race and that the other race is less of a human. Noticing there is a difference and even not wanting to live in the same neighborhoods or whatever is not racist its reality!!
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how do donation help your channel? All you do is drive around monetizing Detroit's poverty
Try to make it to West Virginia, Alabama and Louisiana. People think this doesn't affect whites as well, which is why they look away without caring.
We need solidarity on this issue.
Why isn’t this channel monetized?
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It’s almost like we dropped bombs on ourselves.
That's racist, shame on you!
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@@SevenHunnid no one cares dude
We rebuilt Germany, Japan and the rest of Europe but we can' rebuild our cities.
Damn. I feel so sorry for the kids who have to grow up in these environments. It just reminds me to be greatful for all the things I have, knowing that not all kids are lucky.
Yea, this whole thing is a sad picture.
Guess how much money it costs to clean up the trash in your front yard? 0.00 dollars. These people would live like this no matter the amount of money they had. I'm from Detroit and watched it collapse. I have no sympathy.
@@evilchaperone and how is that the children's responsibility exactly?
You feel sorry for them?? feel sorry for the working whites that are forced to feed them.
@@jessgatt5441 wdym. The kids never chose to grow up there. You don’t get to choose who and what type of family you grow up in. These kids were just born in this environment, they never asked to be born
I was raised in Detroit, its always been a rough city. But it didn't look anything like this growing up, this is so sad to see, im glad my mother moved me down south when I was in HS.
Well that's what happened
Everyone moved away
Leaving abandoned houses for those who couldn't afford to leave
@@rgbforever4561 nah. what happened was GMC, Ford, Chevrolet, etc laid off people way back when the recession hit. A lot of big companies fled elsewhere. That's where it all started.
@@sonofagun5305 I mean that's the reason why everyone moved away
I've seen this street on Fallout 4
where do you think the inspiration of the fallout series came from LOL
@@muftiahmed1900 mad max
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@Tommy Chong How do you deal with radiation?
Was hoping to see some ghouls on the way
What a damn shame! I grew up on Detroit's east side from the 1950's through the 1970's. Very familiar with all these areas. Detroit was a great city at that time. I'm heartbroken for what it has become.
I can remember a time this was a city you took your family's to on vacation.
Those WERE one nice houses, with new American cars sitting in front.
Now it's a example of what BAD political choices will bring.
@@dfamous6036 I hate to say it, Joe, but that's the truth. I grew up near 7 Mile and Harper. I used to date a guy who lived off Chalmers where the first scenes in this video were shot. Made me literally sick to see it now. His house was gorgeous! My parents and grandparents believed every thing the Democrats said. Had them convinced that Democrats cared about working people. Jimmy Carter turned them into Independents who voted Republican and never looked back. I miss Detroit but I know it will never be as I remembered it.
Yes I feel for you my friend must be really hard for you to see these Detroit neighborhoods like they are now, use some of the marijuana revenue, to rebuild these neighborhoods that's what I say
@@ralphmelvin1046 A nice thought, Melvin, but people can't move to a place that is a hostile environment for businesses to thrive. No jobs, no money, no ability to maintain homes or survive, for that matter. The tax revenue Detroit has lost from creating an anti-business, anti-manufacruring attitude is enormous. If Detroit still has a city income tax, they need to get rid of it. Property tax-wise, it's STILL cheaper to live in the suburbs with more and better public services. The whole city government needs an overhaul and the state needs to help too.
@@kathy2trips exactly the state needs to help. And you know who can also help, Dan Gilbert and all these billionaires who live in Michigan, they're busy building new sports arenas, spending money on that. Now I love sports myself but listen this is more important obviously
to imagine that people used to live in those houses once. kids were playing around them, families having barbecues in the back yard, the future was bright. i guess no one ever thought that it would all end up like a war zone..
The people that made it happen knew exactly what they were doing.
All because the controllers of the city and state were greedy and made it rain for themselves and their ilk, and all the public will deal with it and so this is entirely about greed and willful ignorance
That's what I always think of too when I watch these videos or drive through run down areas. The history of what once was and the transition to the current
Is it true that if it’s the rust belt then it’s time to move?
@@kathyinwonderlandl.a.8934 Not sure about that, can't blame someone else for the owners not paying their bills....
I work up there and from what I hear, the taxes are ridiculous. I'm assuming even if you wanted to fix one up it'd be nearly impossible to afford to live there. It's a shame we can give billions to other countries for the exact same thing that's happening in our own. I cant understand the litter and trash everywhere. Some of the piles I've drove by look like they've been there for months or longer.
Demolition companies empty their Semis in them areas saves on Landfill fees.
All your jobs that were once American - shipped to China, Mexico, Indonesia, India.. et al.
Voting for political parties that did NOT put America first is why we have this video.
Those jobs left Detroit for the suburbs and took the tax base with it long before they went overseas.
@@puertoricangringo3144 Yes! That started happening in the 1950’s and the final nail in the coffin were the race riots in the 60’s.
Trump sent jobs overseas. Trump's lines are all foreign based. He made US worse off.
I got news for ya, no political party has America's interests first. All of them have their own pockets first, and it has been that way for longer than anybody alive today has been. What we lost as a country was the ability to shoot our leaders dead and start over when they got too corrupt.
@@cookieskoon2028 You're part of the problem.
I've never been to Detroit..... and I was just imagining the once beautiful, safe, sprawling neighborhoods and homes....that once -upon-a-time stood on those decaying, crumbling, crime ridden, and just sad to look at homes. When the video started and he drove past those kids playing....my heart just felt so sad for them living in those horrible conditions. I pray all those kids living in Detroit graduate from high school....and get into a wonderful university or college as far away from Detroit.....and never look back.
Because whenever black people go, they bring destruction to that area.
this guy is showing off the absolute worst parts of the 140 mile city. detroit has MANY beautiful and historic neighborhoods, filled with mansions, victorian style homes, historic apartments, 200+ repaired beautiful parks for children to play in, renovated or newly constructed recreation centers popping up everywhere, etc. these type of videos only enforce the most negative and dark things of the city and lead people who have never been here to say things like you are and scare them away from even giving the city a chance. it’s disgusting
More than 30% of the kids there won't even graduate high school.
Not even the homeless squatters seek refuge in that God forsaken place.
Only the certain kind like me
Hey, hey,hey,hey! Detroit is not without it's charm.
Believe me there are many of us that remember and have photos of these cities being beautiful once.
This is what happens when there are NO Jobs.
They sold us all out decades ago.
Not all about jobs. It's about the Blacks living there that destroy good cities.
Even the sun don't wanna look at Detroit
Haha good one
Go visit please!! They said how the Southside of Chicago was so crazy and messed up. I didn't see it! The media will show you what they want you to see. I live in Charleston SC now and baby let me tell you. Plenty of areas look like people built the house they self without knowledge of. So bring them cameras here please.
It's scared to come out 🌥️
I bet the moon is afraid to come out at night.
If you were the sun or the moon why would you want to show yourself to Detroit?
And just to think there was a time when those houses were new and people were super happy to live there , this is 100% the result of the political party in charge of that area , when the politicians blame someone else and play the victim agenda .
It would be cool to see this same video, but from back in the day.
I’ve seen a clip Somewhere on you tube that does back in the day and find the same street / spot now. Really sad and the place fell to pieces in. Like 15 years…. As soon as the factories closed. Really good lessons in history. The clip is there search Anton speed Detroit timeline and also others blight then and now / before and after comparisons … it should be in the results - u will know it when u see it
It was ALOT whiter and cleaner
My grandfather told me years ago that couples would walk the street holding hands all hours of the night.
OH WHEN WHITE PEOPLE LIVED THERE.
I was there then every house full of love 😦
The real shame of all this is that before "white flight" in the 1950's and 60's these were all beautiful well kept up neighborhoods... Gee,I wonder what happened?
Well, day turning in to night.
Hate to say the downfall started with the riots of 1967, buildings burned to the ground and those who left got out of dodge.
@@terrylynn9984 Terry Lynn, exactly during that time where were you?
67 Riots caused white flight. They took their income with them. That's what happened.
@@shirley9209 why even question where I was.
Reality is prior to the riots of 1967, Detroit was a thriving metropolis full of industry, the riots, the burning buildings caused many to leave .
Those who had money left, those who remained were the poor.
Capiche?
All of those big nice homes gone to waste.
Again, a lot of those “big homes” are multi-family homes. It doesn’t take away from the rest of your point but most people in Detroit didn’t have big ass houses all to themselves
@@bluecyclone7077 either way, they going to waste which is a damn shame.
@@yezmirsheppard-halika6892 I mean it’s still cheap to live in the D. You can’t make use of them if you want
They no longer have garages in the NE detroit. What did they do with them ???
Back in the early 1950s Detroit was a terrific place to live. I spent 6 weeks with my parents there during a time when work was hard for my father to find in MA. So, he found work there. Detroit was building all new schools, etc. Homes were really kept up, and people were proud to live there.
The 1950s and 60s were the golden age for this once booming city because companies like Ford and General Motors created millions of jobs for automotive workers but flashfoward half century later and the town is now riddled with violent crime and especially unemployment since many employees at the plants were layed off due to economic changes with most of these groups moving to countries like China.
Back in the '50's anywhere in America was a great place to live.
@@SomeGuyInSandy A golden era that will never return.
@@SomeGuyInSandy New York City (Bronx) was the 1st city that started gone Run Down in the 70s before Detroit
@@SomeGuyInSandy Even Gary, Indiana was a beautiful place to live until MJ became a teenager
imagine this neighborhood in the 50s...
It was great! I grew up there on the west side!
@@Hanover-ek4jy was there gangs back then?
Before divershitty
@@craiglyles4755 ??
@@craiglyles4755 😂 agreed
With all the vacant lots, along with some of the salvageable homes, you could build up alot of urban homesteads and mini farms.
Maybe so but nobody’s wants to live there anymore
It would not be safe, unfortunately.
I was just in Detroit last June 2024 and that is what is happening. Community parks and mini farms, greenhouses springing up. Quite green and lots of open spaces.
That was once a beautiful city!
Then democrats took over
Until Liberal Politicians let it go to Shit!
@@puertorock0828 Yep they pocketed all the money for themselves and now they going to do it to rest of America.
There are still beautiful parts of Detroit.Don’t let the ruin porn fool you.
Go to Palmer Woods,Indian Village,University District to name a few amazing neighborhoods within the city limits.All of what you see is true but there is so much more you don’t see that would surprise you in a good way.Detroit has some of the most amazing architecture left in America.Some of the old homes are true works of art.js
@@puertoricangringo3144 I agree, but the problem with beautiful areas such as Palmer woods etc is that they are surrounded by battle grounds of crime and violence, such as Woodward ave and Highland Park!
You are an eastsider.
Right?
Go over to Grand River and Schoolcraft.
Pretty bleak there too.
Then do tours through Palmer Park, Indian Village, and Rosedale Park North.
I wish they'd make neighbourhoods like this again. Cookie cutter mcmansion-ville is getting old.
Have you ever noticed the majority of the houses being saved are brick and mortar? Not the buildings built using framing and sidings of various descriptions, there is a major lesson in that, also roof construction is a major factor on the longevity of a building. Ticy tacky McMansions are not worth much in reality.
keep voting democrat it's coming
@@Right-Is-Right Detroit has lost thousands of brick bungalows. Detroit was once a more prosperous city than most of the U.S. Modern houses with synthetic based water and air barriers ought to endure well, although the newer materials have not yet been proven long term. When properly installed and inspected the newer houses should have a long life. Replacing asphalt with polymers ought to make shingled roofs last longer, but metal roof generally last longer than shingles A steeper pitch roof with larger overhang can help prevent water damage. Even the best constructed home needs regular maintenance.
@@timothykeith1367 The only thing you forget is the inspection you mention and the following maintained you do not, such as painting timber siding adds to the overall cost of the home. Making the modern crap you push more expensive over the life of the home. then you still have the problem that the thin shitty materials being pushed are not worth the price they demand and are not good at standing up to storms, adding even more to the lifetime costs.
I forgot to mention, I work in the construction industry and would be pushing the newer crap if I was in it for the money, But I prefer to deliver a product to get recommendations for work, not yearly maintenance fees from suckers, that does not seem right.
They know that it's much more profitable to build houses in a new city and have them abandon the old city (creating an avalanche effect) than it is to genuinly improve the old community and therefore the quality of lives of the people who live there. Sad when you think about the memories made in each house and the families that passed through them and the stories they hold. And now they rot like ruins of an ancient world.
Thats Michigan as a whole. Go to the UP and see lots of abandoned houses, towns, factories. Michigan doesn't care about blight like other states. They just let it rot. I live 500 miles north(still in Michigan but past the mackinac bridge) and my neighborhood looks about the same. Trash everywhere, old buildings caving in, spray paint, potholes, bullet holes in signs.
Crap. Didn't know it was as bad in the rural Red areas up there as it is shown in Blue Detroit. I thought only the Deep South was like that.
Come into Cheboygan from Roger's City .Unreal grew up there.Was up there a couple weeks ago.Drove around Cheboygan it is a dump.
Do you think it's because it is Dems running it now i know the car manufacturing left i live in Cleveland and when the steel company's left. Cleveland decide lots of neighborhoods look like this and we have a leftists city leaders
Flint is also pretty bad too in fact worse than Detroit since there was a huge water crisis that hit 3 years ago in 2018.
I dont know where you live but it's not a sh__hole in the UP
Finding some copper in one of these homes would be like finding a balloon in a needle factory
Lmfao u said it my freind,,long gone,along with the alluminuim sidings
Sad. Feel sorry for whoever lives there,
Probably rodents are in charge.
2:41 probably Jeff Bezos scoping out the area to put a new distribution center.
Yeah , you never know
To late they're already building a Amazon head quarters there
I know the dude, Insurance salesman.
I grew up around here just east of where the video begins. Hasse and Davison , there's nothing left, the houses are burnt down. It looks like a jungle you can't see sidewalks or the alley. When I grew up it was beautiful, you could play in the alley or the street.
How times have changed. so sad
That's when WHITES lived there.
People used to make great effort to move to Detroit. Look at it 70 years later.
There are still stunningly beautiful parts of the city,and a very vibrant downtown.You just don’t see much of that in TH-cam.Still a long way to go but progress is being made.
Once black ppl went all out in Detroit it became the worst looking city in Michigan
@@puertoricangringo3144 But don't forget what blacks did to Detroit along with your eyes being focused on the future.
This looked like a nice, prosperous neighborhood once upon a time. All went downhill when Detroit lost it's claim of being the world car capital.
This is what happens when billionaires sell out the middle class of a nation.
Exactly. They keep us divided, red and blue, like gang members. While they are two wings of the same corrupt bird. The real divide is between the haves and the have nots.
You are totally WRONG billionaires had nothing to do with it it was stupid corrupt city politicians who many went to prison for stealing the public funds. Do some research before making stupid analysis
@@longbeachrick4680 Just to see, I looked up the current leadership in the city. The mayor and city council all represent the same crooks that have made Detroit into what this video shows. Detroit hasn’t had fully competent leadership since the mid 1950’s. Given the people haven’t learned to this point, I don’t see them learning in the future. Detroit won’t get any better.
Yep (sorry to turn it into politics) but I bet it was Democrats that helped sell out the people
@@yvonneadams9334 the Rethuglikkkan party has a long history of creating and perpetuating poverty. The party that protects the wealthy and oppresses the working class. But they give them permission to hate, and to kkkult folk that's everything.
The party whose leader is an unregistered sex offender with a porn star wife. The whole thing is...just throw it away and start over.
Для полноты пейзажа не хватает валяющихся на улице трупов.
There all in the vacant or bushes or back parking lots.
So many people spent there whole working life in the public and private sector, in and around Detroit but when they retired they took there retirement and pension checks and moved out of state and are no longer a part of the tax base. Many of those old homes have good lumber and other building material
That can be used in new buildings. the way that building material has increased in cost it could be cost effective.
Is it just me or at 7:34 to 7:35 you cocked a gun , I mean I don’t blame you though🤣🤣
When trash is put on the curb in most Towns, the city picks up the trash. Why is Detroit not picking up the trash in this area? Thanks very much.
Wow, so sad and completely ruined. A lot of these were such nice homes once upon a time, with whole families who lived and grew up in these places and now they're just ghosts about to be gone. Great video
If those old houses were in the heart of Atlanta , Chicago , LA , San Francisco , NYC or any other major city that's getting gentrified they would be fixed and worth a lot of money right now ...But since they're in a America's toilet bowl city they don't have a chance ..
@@blast4me754 I understand you calling it a toilet bowl, but why? Political corruption? Lost economic opportunity? 85% of the births to impoverished unwed mothers? All that is true, and contributing to the problems,but “toilet bowl” is a facile claim.
It was designed by Democrat politicians such as Lyndon Johnson and Patrick Moynihan. To destroy family , a father must be absent order for single mother to raise and keep having babies out of wedlock. A guy was working 6 days a week to support his family. But baby mother was so upset she kick him out and decide to collect welfare because she was collecting more money from government for having babies. This is modern day crisis. This was design to destroy black families. Bill Clinton made a three strike you are out. If black kid committed 3 minor offense then he must do time in jail. So he can not get a job but could apply for welfare. Do you think he blame Democrats for his misery, he will blame Republicans in a heart beat because he was brainwashed by liberal politicians especially by their own religious leaders. They also get paid by government to keep their own people under water or kept in the plantations. So sad
because the rich businessman & politician want more profit rather then helping their own countrymen , & politician do not care their citizen as long they have the money to put it on their pocket. that what they call u.s & western democracy.
I lived on a street like this on Alter Rd, age birth to 3 years old.
I always thank God and my dad for getting us out of there in 1967 after the big riot.
Why you moved great decision of your father he had the opportunity t sold the house
Some of the houses looked like they would've been good in the times they were first built
Many of those homes have good bones, despite their current conditions.
If you believe it, the houses in Detroit was once put together alot better then the houses of today, the old timers put pride in their work rather then fast ass jobs.
Would love to know what it looked 50 years ago and the demographic then.
Id hate to be that Amazon prime driver rolling thru that craphole @2:42
They do not slow done for a drop off...
Throw the Package out the window and keep going.
Crazy to see how desolate Detroit has become when at a time is was one of the biggest thriving metropolis
imagine criticizing other countries for their problems of poverty when home is like this
Imagine giving to other countries when home is like this. #LetsGoBrandon
imagine stealing from other countries and keeping your people this poor still. #imperialism #colonialism #capitalism
@@robertosandoval9094 We give 10 trillion a decade to our military with no pushback. Yet, they've trained everyone to say we're broke.
You know what 10 trillion every decade can do for this society? We would have floating cities by now.
Instead, since the 70s, we've moved 50 trillion from the bottom 90% to the top 1%.
Can't believe the amount of garbage every where. It looks like at one time it was a nice place to live. Think the partial burned houses would at least be demolished.
The rich white congressmen who criticize other countries' poverty think that places like these ARE other countries
This is what happens when people move and they don’t maintain their homes. Usually the most destructive thing is the lack of roof maintenance. Once the water starts entering in, and the rest of the home starts to rot quickly. I remember the 1960s we used to observe that every neglected home had a brand new Cadillac in it. It’s recollections like mine that never make it into the history books. Instead people will re-spin the facts and try to blame somebody else.
Even now, any new business that pops up in Detroit is run by an immigrant. The traders just have no desire to do the hard work of a business
That's crazy, it's like mfs just got up and left , it's crazy to think at one time all of these homes were occupied 🤷♂️
That's when people care and self respect for one another.
Because they did get up and leave
My old neighborhood is in shambles now! During the 60s this was a resilient blue collar neighborhood!!!!! God Almighty!!!
I'm from Detroit, born and raised. Most times I see these videos I be thinking, where the fuck is this?? I'm from the west side. But. You can go to any city and look into the worst areas and say, look here yall, it's messed up!! Love mu city!! Encourage all watching to visit.
I looked up the street names... I was born at st. john's hospital. mom and dad and grandparents lived there in the area you're driving around. went to school with family member of randazzo's fruit market... Used to be pretty nice place to live. Later we moved up Schoehnerr Rd. into Warren. Sad to watch the death of Detroit...
Thank your democrats / communists
You can keep your Camdens and Newarks, your Garys and your East St. Louises, nobody does it like the "D".
I don't know why but your videos in a weird way are therapeutic. Probably due to my nostalgic feelings towards that city. In a future video please drive up Beland street right across from Mt Olivet Cemetery. I lived there as a kid in the 80's between Sauer & Clough St.
Wow Ben Crandall! I also lived on Beland, off of 7 mile!
I’d like to imagine that at one point in time, these areas were striving and full of life. Those homes were once filled with laughter and love. Shits sad
I grew up in Detroit until I was 14. A year after the riots we moved to the suburbs along with many others. I've gone back only to find empty blocks where there were bustling neighborhoods. So many kids out playing. I can't tell you what a beautiful city Detroit was in the 50's and 60's. It hurts my heart to see what it has become.
I wonder how some of those streets looked like in their heyday.
Not like this.....(born and raised)
I know it was beautiful, clean and prosper. Is sanding and heartbreaking, what a disaster.
You can tell it was good 👍🏻 these are lovely large old houses . Displacement of poor people from the south and car plant closures to foreign countries did this ‼️ and now it’s not just Detroit , so many once boom towns are failing . American politicians need to take a long hard look at their policies , spending , immigration , business , agriculture , manufacturing and housing ‼️‼️ You don’t need to be Biden , Harris or AOC to see this not working all over the country !!!
🏍️ Just drive over to a white neighborhood nearby. Take a look. 👀
For once I would like to see the flip side of this Detroit is a huge city. That's meant to hold two million people. Detroit East and West really have some very beautiful neighborhood as well. Beautiful streets that no houses are spaced out, or torn down or burned a sight for sore eyes or abandoned. I know I was a transportation driver for 20 years. And I also was a numerator for the sensors Bureau. Sure you have bad neighborhoods but you also have the beautiful streets and neighborhoods. Let's see some of that for a change.
I've seen some Gorgeous in Detroit.
Areas
Yo charlie go to Memphis in the same area young Dolph was killed
itd be interesting if you drove around the neighborhoods near hamtramck. the houses are all run down and they're squeezed in together so tight you can't even walk between two houses sideways, it's the weirdest thing ive ever seen as a non urbanite
Give a HOOT! Don't POLLUTE! 🦉
Plant some trees today
Some big lots there. My mind runs rampant thinking what you could do with all that space if it wasn’t such a dangerous place.
I LOVE sound car🎶🚗
Me to
Of sound car and sound mind.
2jz
Damn that is insane, can’t believe there is also
trash everywhere
country with a $1000,000,000,000.- a year dEfEnsE budget..
Whose government has flooded the streets with drugs and guns and are watching us destroy ourselves and each other.
Now go and show all the areas that have been rebuild go and show how beautiful down town housing and areas look especially at night the D has some nice places to live and some bad just like every other major city in America
Auto factories closed, took a lot of money away from Detroit.
The U.S. economy has restructured with out-sourcing, off-shoring, globalization, A.I. and software programs allowing corporations to simply cut large numbers of workers. Jobs left now have no benefits, contracts & pay little... with layoffs coming as soon as HR can figure a way to run even leaner.
Im sure Governor Whitmer can fix this.😅😅😅😅
I read through the comments in this thread and everyone is quick to blame one political party or the other, one race or the other, one religion or the other and that is the problem and the reason these neighborhoods look the way they do. You all spend so much time blaming one another that nothing ever gets fixed, you all are so intent in proving you have the biggest douchebag in office that you couldn't give two shits about what happens in your lives. There isn't just one thing that caused this, its is a multitude of things that caused these neighborhoods to look this way.
When my dad saved enough he moved us from the projects of Cincinnati to a neighborhood in Detroit just like these. Those homes were beautiful. If you haven't seen pictures from the 70s then you have no way of knowing. Once that neighborhood took on more welfare hood types and went down he moved us to another neighborhood, 7 Mile. Another beauty. And in 10yrs it went down too. Now, most of Detroit looks like this. At 18 I broke the hell out and didn't look back.
If u were from the projects of Cincinnati you were the "welfare hood type" too. 🙄
Ironically their love of the automobile was one of the primary reasons they ended up as they are now. It wasn't so much the welfare queens that like to have too many children on one income, they are the effect, the main cause was the deindustrialization of inner-city Detroit and then white flight that occurred which meant that the cities tax base, and most of the main employers, all left. The city's only claim to fame was the car industry, and once foreign car markets proved to make better cars, that killed GM, Chrysler, and Lincoln, and thus, Detroit. Once those companies failed, white flight to suburbs occurred. The other issue was building freeways which meant that white Americans didn't have to live in the city at all to work. Instead, they can commute which further hurt Detroit's economy. Lack of public transportation infrastructure also meant that living in the city was not convenient enough for most people which lead to further abandonment.
It was death by overreliance on a dying industry, sheer incompetency, complacency by American car companies since they failed to innovate, and a decrease in population that led to Detroit being the shit hole that it is today.
@@colechapman6976 WOW! you are one of the rare people who are paying attention!!
@@colechapman6976 are you kidding me ? you are completely wrong about this, the reason you mentioned is only one of the many reasons why people fled to the suburbs. I am sorry but your comment has a undertone of hatred against cars. stop with your propaganda bullshit. Cars are here to stay. we need them. my job requires that I have a 4x4 truck with a range in gas far exceeding that of any electric car/truck . If government outlaws combustion engine vehicles its my whole livelihood that goes with it
Your dad had a work ethic along with the desire to better himself and his family. Welfare defeats that work ethic and makes people dependent on government. They believe success is measured by how cool your car looks.
I’m Not From Detroit But Gosh It Looks So Depressing In That Area Smh Oh How Blessed I Am To Live In A Good Area In HOUSTON TEXAS I Also Know The Feeling To Live In A Bad Area Oh Has God Brought Me A Long Way🙌🏾💗
Whats most weird for me is a sequence of abandoned houses and then a single clean and nice house with car like you are the only person living in the whole block
The tree aspect. When these places were in their prime, the trees were kept. Great documentary. Each abandoned house was once a family story. There's a double garage at one point, right on the street now overgrown with vines. In its day though, whoever owned it definitely had some fun with that.
Detroit used to be called the Paris of the midwest because of all the trees. They formed a canopy over the streets. They were elm trees and were wiped out by a disease call Dutch Elm Disease. It was an invasive insect that burrowed under the bark and slowly killed the elms.
There's your answer to all the homelessness !!.
Detroit was once referred to as the Paris of the West. A truly cosmopolitan city and America's financial hub.
Then the Democrats took control.
Heartbreaking.
How much is your tire bill?
Im 59 , I live in Rochester MI. 25 miles north of this shit hole. The jobs went to the suburbs, the very corrupt Coleman Young/Kwame Kilpatrick ruined the rest of this mess. I am a Realtor, I worked for the banks from 2005-2012 selling these properties to investors for less than 2k! It all went back to this crap when the neighborhoods worth it were cannibalized when the rehabs the Chinese investors started were ruined. It all royally sucks!
This guy's a gangster? His real name's Clarence And Clarence lives at home with both parents. And Clarence's parents have a real good marriage
😂😂😂
Im thinking Detriot would do better to give homeless a house on 5 year defered property tax and give them access to materials to fix it up at what the materials cost the city is what the homeless to homeowner pays . If in 5 years they have not fixed the home up to a livable standered and brought themselves to a level where they can start paying the yearly property tax then the city takes the home back and levels it or offers it to another homelass family. I mean hell it's worth a shot and if the homeless have a home chances are the can get a job or start their own job laws service bbq shack in a empty lot something . It's a hand up not a hsnd out and im sure 3-4 out of 10 will fail due to drugs alcohol and or mental illness but the 6 that do become productive members of the comunity it's a win win .
Truth is the only way this city is going to come back is new leaders that are willing to device programs to give people a hand up like go to college full time and the city pays your rent or morgage as long as you are actively enrolled and attending your classes .
It isn't a WAR ZONE ... It's a TRADE WAR ZONE. And we know who the war was with.
When you live in country like I'am living at moment (Croatia), who has been in war like 30 years ago, can't imagine seeing neigborhoods like this one 30 years after. So unsafe and destroyed. Crazy!! What country you have pretty much don't care about it. Sad.
This how Saginaw Michigan look
What is it like to live in neighborhoods like this today? There were a few homes that offered a little glimpse of what Detroit was and maybe could be. They were always followed by seemingly endless boarded up, burned out hulks surrounded by mounds of trash and debris. We ask the people who live there to "pull themselves up." How hard is that really? Could you do it?
I didn't grow up in Detroit but in another rust belt city. The same thing happened. Industry collapsed and the jobs evaporated. The home that was my family's from about 1910, in a solidly middle-class neighborhood, was torn down, the lot plowed over. It breaks my heart to see my old street.
You can blame politicians or big companies. There's plenty of blame for them. But we did it to ourselves, too. What did we do to stop it? Who bought the foreign cars? The phones from China? The clothes from India? The shoes from Vietnam? We did. By doing that, WE exported those jobs that kept cities like Detroit thriving.
There's a saying: Sow the wind; reap the whirlwind. We have the crop we planted.
If we want to make it better, we need to make better choices. And demand our leaders make better choices. And we need to stop thinking of ourselves and start thinking of our children and their children and their children and on.
This is God's forsaken land
This Planet!!
Did God forsake them, or did the people that created this disgrace forsake Him?
There's a huge housing shortage, sad to see these gorgeous homes that have been left to fall apart
I can remember going to to my dad's favorite bar on Friday nights to cash his check , it was on 7 mile and John R. That was in the 60s , now I live on the Arizona, Mexico border in Rio Rico Arizona, two worlds apart...
Detroit's suburbs were once the envy of big city life in America. But all that changed about 55 years ago when the government started regulating business models that once made America prosperous. As regulations increased, companies started moving out of the city taking their business someplace else.
Nonsense. Regulation affects ALL cities and very few look like the bombed out hell hole that Detroit is. You have no idea WTF you are talking about.
The good news is evil always loses. The problem is how long will it take & how many lives will be lost.
Da tristeza mirar todo un pueblo destruido no se si sea por la violencia o por desempleo o por la gente floja que no quiere trabajar porque estamos en el país más rico para estar en esa situación pero el gobierno debe de hacer algo al respecto porque ese triste para los niños que viven en ese lugar
The war zone has a shiny new Popeye's though!
right next to it is a Churches Chicken !!!!
Teach some people in these areas some trades, and give them jobs repairing/renovating these neighborhoods "build back better" the correct way
how about the owners of these empty buildings? in my hometown in Germany theres no chance to get a place to build a house. In detroit there is so much place but no people lol
no people ? dont you see them there in the video ?
Many of the owners died, owed taxes, or it was foreclosed. You can buy these houses for as low as $1k. Detroit has a website showing all the abandoned houses for sale.
they are largely abandoned, forfeited properties. you can buy them cheap but there are hidden rules like you must totally rehab the property quickly or they forfeit back the whole thing. there are few takers since it is extremely expensive to rehab these places to meet all code requirements and very few buyers interested in such things to recoup your money. way too risky of an investment.
Could you imagine, if your a white guy, driving through there, and your BMW, breaks down...
It’s nice to see some of the houses getting fixed up!
Only to be F'd up again
Gentrification
Only in neighborhoods by Grosse Point
For sale 1$ but you need to pay property taxes
@@skatemetal5062 What percentage of the $1 value do you have to pay per annum in property tax?
We Must Pray For Detroit And Cast The Devil Out For A Blessed Righteous Living In Jesus Name Amen
Damn, would love to have so much space, in switzerland - Bern, where i live, i need to pay 400 for a small music room and 1400 for a small appartment. having a house like this would be the dream, nice garden, some aaple trees in it, an old wooden house... sadly there is a lot of crime going on, i guess.
Yet here we are helping these other countries with financial assistance jumping into wars that we shouldn't be in etc while we have homeless vets and places like this. I say close the borders stop helping everyone else and clean up our own country and take care of the people here first!!!
Someone needs to put this 4:01
Into these 4:06
Not that hard.
Detroit was a nice place to grow up in the 1960's. The playgrounds had alot of kids.
Sometimes you could do arts & crafts for a small fee at the park.
You could go to the park & play pick up games of baseball or football.
They had a basketball court too.
I always kept a baseball mitt on my handlebars.
Diack Park was my favorite.
No adults were involved in our games. We had to be home for dinner & when the street lights went on
The 1967 Riot caused white flight.
My family moved to another neighborhood, but stayed in the city.
I was from the Westside.
I think this video is the Eastside?
Brightmoor or Blightmoor is on the Westside & is similar.
@chamberizer: I grew up in Brightmoor in the 60s and 70s. It's a disaster as well.
It's too bad that D 12 burnt most of that shit down 🤔
This was all due to criminal activity… if there was law and order this place would have been a wonderful place.
Honestly, if I was a reasonably wealthy American, I'd buy a couple of these houses as an investment. Those ruined properties are so unbelievably cheap that it's pretty much impossible for them to get any cheaper, so you might get yourself a nice profit in a decade or two, or at worst you will end up with a modest loss. It's almost free real estate.
yeah, but how do you get rid of the chocolate neighbors ? do you like gunshots at 3 am ?
You would spend more money trying to keep it together that’s the problem. Detroit needs jobs that’s the only thing that will bring the people back.
The problem is city taxes and insurance costs are exorbitant.
@@fft2020 you get slapped up in front of your kids, no one cares what you have to say shhh lol
Add to my comment....
We, as Detroiter's are as much displaced people as others are from other war zones throughout the world.
The only difference is that ours was all due to the economics of racism in Detroit.
Much quieter except for July 23, 1967.
The final stroke.
First off there is no such thing as thr economics of racism. Secondly that is all due to it being the reflection of the people living in the neighborhood. I am sick and tired of everyone saying its always due to racism when in fact it isnt. It is due to the fact that races are different, period. Look up the video about Spanish Lake and see for yourself. That place was a beautiful all white place and then over time became atleast 94% non white and turned into a violent war zone. That is not being racist it is being HONEST, FACTUAL and REAL. We are NOT all the same oeriod!! Being racist is someone who believes they are superior over another race and that the other race is less of a human. Noticing there is a difference and even not wanting to live in the same neighborhoods or whatever is not racist its reality!!
They will be doing home removal for years!