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Hello how are you doing? I hope and pray that you are safe blessed you your family, also always remembering "The Cross of Christ." Keep him first in your life. This video is making me want to cry because just by looking at the abandoned houses filthy trash everywhere. This isn't the way to live at all. I'm just hoping and praying that Detroit will get a brand-new Governor who is a real Conservative, who will send people to go into these abandoned neighbor hoods and tear down all of the old filthy abandoned houses clean up, then rebuilding the neighborhoods reducing crime stop and frisk, the citizens of Detroit deserve better.
0:17 this is so sad, each of these homes is beautifully designed, has unique features, gentle roof lines, welcoming porches, this neighbourhood would have been beautiful 50 years ago.
This is the result of Coleman Young and twenty years of Black Nationalism. They destroyed the greatest economy the world has ever seen. Detroit in 1960 had the world's highest standard of living and per capita earnings anywhere in the world.
This is beyond depressing, and I am haunted by the words my 83 year old aunt told me in 2011 right before she died, " I'm glad that I lived at the peak of this country's greatness and I won't be around to see the continuing decline."
@@timeisup6844 If you know your history well, you would understand that the US has always had foreign and domestic problems. Most of he 80's were not a particularly good time for the US.
My grandmother, mom and I were all born in Detroit. Mom used to say how beautiful it was back then in the 50's and 60's. Safe place to live, prosperous, and every summer we would drive up to Canada to see our aunts, uncles, and cousins. I remember walking up the street to play with friends, beautiful homes on a tree lined street, people sitting on their front porch wave as you go by. Breaks my heart...
I'm nearly 80 years old and in the UK and I find this all so sad. Is it likely that these houses were occupied by car workers? Did the bean counters shut down the factories or move production elsewhere because people were buying European or Japanese cars? I suppose there were many living in these houses who relied on the car workers for their living, and so it goes on. These abandoned houses paint a picture of how the whole world will be once humanity has died out because of the way it has been been made uninhabitable. I shall now go and give my wife a hug to cheer me up!
Detroit homes and way of life created the highest standard of living on the planet and made the USA the number place for quality of life. Is so sad to see how this has been destroyed. Bring on gentrification and jobs
After a tigers day game like 5 years ago I decided to venture into the crappy parts of detroit to see if it was as bad as I’ve heard/seen on videos and let me tell you it was astonishing. He must’ve been in the same area I went, and I wasn’t stopping at any stop signs at all. I drove a good 5 min at least before even seeing another working vehicle. I saw a pack of wild dogs, and that’s when I decided this wasn’t a good place to have any sort of car problems and I got the hell outta there. It almost takes your breath away it’s so surreal that this is in the United States. Shocking to say the least.
@@jaymesnin from the sounds of it, no vehicles at all for 5 minutes even the gangs are not hanging out there... Its just being reclaimed by wilderness slowly but surely.
There are many places that way. Among the opulence of D.C. and Chevy Chase there is unbelievable poverty. One time I went back to the East San Jose neighborhood I grew up in and what I started seeing caused me to put my car into reverse to back out as fast as I could. We were poor but not like that. And everyday I thank my parents, my family and God.
I stayed in Detroit back in 2009 and stopped somewhere between the Michigan Central Railway building and the River Rouge plant on a street full of abandoned stores and businesses, not a single building still in use. It was incredible. However I didn't stay long as I felt very vulnerable. Didn't see a single soul in that area - it was like something from an end of the world sci fi movie.
Was born in Detroit 1967. Lived there my first 5 years. My grandpa was the Detroit Fire Chief. My dad went down to my grandparents house about a year ago and sent me a picture. Hardly recognized it. Broke our hearts. Beautiful houses at one time. Can visualize them remodeled. Would love to have a house like that now. People sitting on their porches, kids riding bikes, talking to neighbors, and the ice cream truck. What a shame….
Remolded? Need to raze entire sections of this area and pt up a gated community. The only way to save Detroit is to level these areas and start over. No section 8 housing.
@@sethpotter9592 “can VISUALIZE”. I understand there’s no practical way to “redo” them as standing. But it would be nice to take those floor plans and replicate them.
I finally caved and left the city six years ago. Decades of watching it slowly die was enough for me. But thanks to you and your videos it helps me remain grounded and not forget...it helps me to continue praying for my roots, for Detroit.
When you have a house or two on blocks that go abandoned, it's proof there's a problem. When you entire streets and blocks going abandoned, that's a crisis. Even with the stuff going on today, this shouldn't be happening inside America.
We have people that care about Detroit in our state and putting the money where their mouth is.if you have never been to Detroit don't make assumptions as it's a dead th-cam.com/video/GnFGYqj2UQAc/w-d-xo.htmlity its far from it
I was born and raised in Detroit when it was a bustling thriving city. The riots in the 60’s took the city right down to its knees. So sad to see the blight that was left behind…
Heart breaking. Especially when you consider that this was once a thriving community with family’s happy to own their own home, kids playing outside, life growing with hopes. So so sad to see this. This has been a slow and painful death. 😢
This is what happens when a city is built on one product as in Detroit's case it was automobiles, and as such the sector employs the majority of the cities workforce, you also have the same thing in a mining town be it in the US, or elsewhere like here in England, once the auto firms move out of Detroit as they did, OR the pit closes the workforce either moves out or stagnates and there is little to no hope of their way of life returning as it was.
This is too sad! Those houses and neighborhoods were probably such nice family homes with gardens and flower beds, kids playing and riding their bikes, and dogs barking - unbelievably tragic. 😪😭😥
@@TheoneGodfather city mgmt was going into decline , my father retired from the city in 71 and got tired of the weather . 67roits didn't help , but he wanted to do his 25yrs.
This has been going on for decades. My father was born in 1929 and raised there. For kicks, our family decided to visit his childhood home back in the early 1980's. Needless to say, the house was in disrepair and the neighborhood just wasn't the same. I can't imagine what it looks like now, or even if it's still standing.
In 2010 I drove through my mother’s childhood neighborhood in Dayton. The houses, probably 100 years old then, we’re still occupied but didn’t look much better than these Detroit homes. The electric streetcar wires were still in place overhead, but the houses were rotting. I look at photos made there in the 40s when it was thriving. Very sad.
There's not much in America that makes me want to cry. But all the beautiful architecture in Detroit is one thing I want to bawl my eyes out for! 😢 This is arguably some of the best architecture in the country. When I was in high school architecture class, I did a rendering of a proud Detroit house.
@@maggiemae7539 life isn’t all about what something can do to help you, the lost of these beautiful homes is sad. It’s a reflection on society and choices people have made that impacted the life of a city.
This is what happens when you send manufacturing and other jobs to other countries just to save a buck. These neighborhoods were once alive and thriving. Wish we could see old pictures or home movies of these neighborhoods before the jobs went away. Pretty disappointed America! 😢🇺🇸
I am speechless! It was like watching a horror film, such beautiful houses that are shadows of themselves. Please don't take offence of my question, but how did this happen and where did all the people go? Who ever is responsible for allowing communities to fall apart like this should be jailed!
As I kid in the early 70's many of my relatives lived in those neighborhoods that were kept immaculate. It is weird to think of how I and my cousins would spend nights sleeping on the upper porches, walk to the bakeries or little stores that seemed to be on the corner of every 4th block. We used to sneak around, open the little wooden doors and sift through the dirt under those porches and find old coins from as far back as 1910 as they were kept in good condition in the dry dirt. We figured that a lot of inebriated men coming home from the bar would lose their coins while pulling out their door keys and the coins ended up rolling through the slats in the boards. I would imagine that there are still a lot of valuable coins laying in the dirt under those porches even today.
The failure of the manufacturing industry in this city was certainly a big driver for these acres of abandoned homes - but another significant factor here is that widespread sprawling suburban development is not financially sustainable. Property taxes for detached, low density residential zoning do not cover the cost of maintaining the sprawling infrastructure they require. If you look up "Strong Towns", they have some fantastic data that shows why this kind of sprawling, car-dependent suburban development kills city finances, and why urbanization/densification is a much healthier form of city land use.
@@j3steven Faulty reasoning. You're essentially saying "a significant factor" for these "acres of abandoned homes" is that fact that they are "sprawled" out in the typical single-family detached layout, because that affects city finances. But the finances weren't affected until after the homes were abandoned. You're putting the cart before the horse. Dense housing isn't a defense against urban decay, just look at NYC in the 70s and 80s.
@@Justinw303 Three quick points in reply: (1) The city's finances WERE affected before the homes were abandoned, but just not as visibly. The influx of revenue from industrial sources kept the irresponsible urban sprawl afloat - until it didn't. In states where it is legal for municipalities to go bankrupt, there are instances where replacement of water/power infrastructure bankrupted the municipality because its suburban sprawl was unsustainable. (2) Ironically, the 70s/80s urban decay in NYC was largely caused by the abandonment of the city's good transit/walking infrastructure in favour of poorly planned car-dependant infrastructure, such as the bulldozing of dense neighbourhoods in favour of the installation of freeways. This was not healthy for the city. However, these denser neighbourhoods were able to bounce back in a way that Detroit's suburbs were not able to. (3) Single-family detached car-dependant neighbourhood layouts are typical in NA, where restrictive Euclidean zoning is pervasive, and medium density neighbourhoods are illegal to build. Thankfully, this is slowly changing. But this style of development is not typical in many other areas of the world, where cities have lots of medium to high-density neighbourhoods, which are built in more sustainable ways that incorporate active infrastructure and good public transit.
There's some sections of Detroit where the city should just fence off whole areas and turn off all utilities until they can be bulldozed. Then they can forest or farm the areas, right-sizing the city to the current population. I saw it for many years, and there are many good sections, but there's also many areas that need to be re-purposed.
That's a great idea---I'm looking at this footage and thinking "Where the HELL are the City Officials, the Mayor, anyone in local officialdom that gives even one damn? Why not at least clear these abandoned houses out---and re-use what can be salvaged? Vintage woodwork, bricks, whatever."
I actually think that there are some places where they have done exactly that... but its expensive to tear down old houses and you need to do it right or they will polute the land... and you cant farm on poluted land or where there is a big ol pile of bricks ... not to mention those old brick buildings are not so easy to tear down because... well made of bricks lol.
My parents were born and raised in Detroit. Lived there in the 1930s and 1940s. We have pictures from their time there. It was once a thriving well-maintained city. Their neighborhood was filled with homes anyone would have been proud to live in. Now, their entire section of town has been leveled. No homes, no buildings, just empty fields crisscrossed by unused streets. So very sad. :(
My late mother was born in Detroit in 1921. Grew up in a big house like these were. My aunt stayed in the house till the early 80’s and told us that it was common for break-ins. She acted like it was as normal as a car driving down the street. So sad.
This is sad, whole neighborhoods abandoned. I wish our government would invest as much money for our housing crisis as they send overseas to people that hate us.
Remember Trump was the first to sign something that would actually benefit POC when Ice Cube joined forces with him but they immediately got rid of him thereafter 😕
Why can’t some Americans admit that trump lost, he is a loser. His supporters keep saying there is loads of proof, yet still none produced after all this time. So what if the dems had cried foul after trump won in 2016, and the dems said for years that it was only because of ‘dead voters’ who voted for him. What a load of shit! Trump LOST, Biden won, now get over it and move on.
Wow! As someone who is familiar with the vacant building issue, this video is what St. Louis looked like 10 years ago. While they still have a long way to go, St Louis has come along way, primarily through demolition.
Bonjour je suis de France je vie dans un endroit magnifique en France 👍je connais pas Détroit mais ça me rends triste 😢 ou sont passés les humains ?? Dire qu’ils vivaient là était heureux mais pourquoi ce pays ou la France vas si mal !!! En fait je sais pourquoi !!!
What's the problem, he just showed you several hundred homes for as cheap as you can get. Buy an entire block and wall it off, your own private compound in Detroit. It comes with a life times supply of firewood!
I was born and raised in Detroit in the 50s and 60s on the east side. Those houses were so beautiful. Everybody had green grass back then families taught their kids how to act and to stay off peoples green grass. None of the houses we live in are there any more? It makes me cry when I drive through there long time ago.
I really appreciate YTubers like yourself are going out there and showing the plight of American cities. From California to New York, we got a problem. We've all been duped into believing that by sending our industries and tax dollars to other countries around the world , we're doing a good and noble thing. Except for one problem. We forgot to take care of ourselves. We need to take our country back.
Sadly the argument that the problem is too many jobs have gone overseas is true but not simple to fix. My wife buys SAS shoes made in America. Around $170 a pair. Can families with kids afford these prices? We can't have the highest salaries and standard of living. Too many here still couldn't afford American made products. Most of the rest of the world for sure couldn't. The push to raise minimum wages etc has just caused runaway inflation. Is anyone really any better off now? We need well thought out solutions with cooperation between businesses and governments. We now just have politicians pushing soundbites with NO real workable solutions. But the American voters just accept that.
@@DrummerDanVa true but is it going to help to give up? I try to buy American made but buy less products. People will spend $150 to $300 on Chinese made tennis shoes. There are American made products that can be purchased that are better quality too. Every little bit helps. We also need to stop buying from these globalist companies. I'm almost totally free from Proctor and Gamble. I buy my laundry goods, household cleaning goods, bath, body and hair care and even facial and make-up products from a much smaller company. I found that their products are better too. Plus the products are delivered once a month. I don't spend anymore than what I would if I shopped at the grocery store. Usually $60.00 to $100.00 a month. It's a company called ( melaleuca). I think that's the spelling. Whenever possible, I buy from a local farmers market and I think in terms of what's in season. If blueberries are in season, I buy a bunch and freeze. Mind you, I'm a cheapskate, living in one of the most expensive areas of the nation. I've found great clothes and furniture at second hand stores. Even if they came from China in the first place, the second time around, China is out of the equation. I'm proud to say that I have never bought a pair of Nikes.
There aren’t enough people to fill the jobs we have open NOW. Without the Chinese and other countries making our stuff we’d be even more screwed. You want to make that problem worse?
what a beautifil architecture. Not to compare to those soul-less buildings from today. It's a pity. And heartbreaking to see, what kind of effect wrong rulers can take. God bless you all!
This reminds me of so many villages that are now entirely abandoned in Uttarakhand, India. Mostly because it's mountainous region with few jobs. The abandoned villages have now been reclaimed by the forest.
I’m 65. My first Canadian home was in Windsor in 1958 (I was 2 yrs old - Irish born) Detroit was THE city to live in, when I was a kid! Best zoo, world class museums, incredible INCREDIBLE, music scene! It’s a heart breaker to see this sort of footage - and there is no shortage of it on TH-cam. Cleveland, Buffalo, Gary, Toledo - all the same. And the Canadian side is only a few years behind - Hamilton, Windsor, St Catherine’s etc. - all “rust belt” relics. This is what happens when our elected officials send middle class manufacturing jobs overseas. There is no longer a middle class to buy the goods that are manufactured. I now live in a high mountain valley in the interior of British Columbia. Politically it’s a “woke” hell-scape. But it’s natural beauty and abundance of fruit, veggies and hunting and fishing game, make it soooo worthwhile. God forgive us, and please don’t take revenge on our children and grandchildren, for what we have done. I’m blessed to have been given the foresight and brains to adjust my living circumstances according to the times. My prayers are with ALL those who come after “my time”. Peace
Opposite fact for me .. born in Detroit in 60 , when we crossed into Canada , it was like a different world , clean , friendly , expensive , tho .. good memories crossing the ambassador bridge, back to det in the tunnel . Used to be the only international vehicular tunnel in the world ...
But who is going to spend $50K fixing up a house that will only be worth $50K at most after renovation. And that assumes the buyer got the house and land for free from the city. Most persons who own these houses aren't going to fix them up.
@@TheOldTapeArchive I thought you never own the land in Detroit? You will have to fight the squatters because they are waiting for contractors to repair properties so they can move in
All the pipes and electrical wiring gets ripped out and sold for scrap. It costs way more to try to repair that than it costs to build a new home -- someplace where you don't have to sit on your porch with a gun to ward off thieves.
This is so depressing, blocks and blocks of abandoned homes. Where I live there is the odd place that is abandoned but not on this level. So sad and I don't understand. Such beautiful little homes. Please stay safe Charlie.
While watching this video I can picture those neighborhoods full of life at a time. Neighbors visiting with each other while their kids were playing, new cars parked in the driveways, nice yards, clean streets, etc. It's a really shame to see those once beautiful homes in the condition there in now. Kind of reminds me of the old west "ghost towns" or american ruins.
@@joeblow9548 No i didn't vote for any of it. I don't live in Detroit. The people who did vote for the candidates who enacted such policies, well they got what they voted for. Sad....
Absolutely heart rending. All the families lost, our nation weakened and the very core of our society collapsed. May God help those that lost everything. 🙏
I grew up here in the 60’s and these homes were occupied then. After the riots and the white flight these neighbourhoods began to deteriorate, the copper scrapers and drug dealers moved in and this is the result. Industry and big business left. Then there were years of corruption in the democratic leadership and this is it, the death of a city.
We t on holiday to Dearborn michigan in 1978 from Scotland to visit an aunt and uncle. Their home was just like these abandoned houses, it was a beautiful house ,lovely street and safe neighbourhood, where everyone took care of their property with pride.The families gone now, my aunt and uncle are now cremated and buried in Scotland. I look at these sad sad pics and wonder if their street has ended up the same way.
I always get greeted, "welcome to the jungle." No jobs, high crime, no family structure, no pride in home/property ownership, disrespect in others leads to the great demise of any neighborhood, city, and country.
I recently visited Detroit and drove around like this. The video is very accurate and there are many neighborhoods like this. I saw so many abandoned homes, schools, churches, and small commercial structures...just complete degradation. However, to be more postive. Downtown seemed to be doing ok (not great) but decently enough.
Grew up in a suburb outside of Detroit, born and raised. I hate seeing this, I know they were once beautiful homes. My grandmother had a house in Detroit. Looked like one of these. She came from Italy and bought the house in 1945. What a beautiful street it was. It was demolished years and years ago. Incredibly sad. ☹
My grandma, born in ‘36, recently passed, she grew up near Tireman, her and my grandpa knew Detroit in it’s prime. They raised their kids, my Mom and her brothers, in Sterling Heights during the 60’s and 70’s. I live in Windsor, Detroit is close to home for me, that’s why I watch this channel.
@@starwalker784 I would say, building freeways through existing neighborhoods was one reason it got bad. Everyone moved to the suburbs. And it got really bad like this because of drugs, IMO.
@@starwalker784 Let’s ignore the elephant in the room. We all know what happened to the once proud city of Detroit like in so many other cities. My parents grew up here in the 1940s through the 1960s. This was once a beautiful proud neighborhood. Winters with all the snow were awesome.
Kudos to you, Mr. Charlie four have travelled everywhere in America and even some bits of Canada to find the worst neighbourhoods and you make this home coming back to the 313 it’s almost heartbreaking but I fully appreciate your work. It’s almost an art to document all this.
I think Detroit was the victim of competition and automation. Kia, hyundai, toyota, honda, nissan, etc. All took a piece of the pie from the big 3. Automation removed jobs.
It is a result of moral degradation and the glorification of gang/drug culture with a heavy helping of “white man bad” mixed in for good measure to avoid accountability. They destroy their own city and treat it like a dumping ground. I spent a lot of time in Detroit and witnessed it all firsthand. Most of the people who live there are far from victims.
@@buckmclean8391 Totally man. Those damn big corporations came in there and destroyed all these houses. After those workers lost their jobs those gosh darn mega corporations took mortgages out just to destroy the place crazy. A group of greedy mega corporations from Africa did this.
The volume of neighborhoods like this in this once great city is staggering. They were such beautiful homes. It is by far the most depressing city I've ever been too.
what people may not know is the Detroit was once a beautiful artistic locale, check out Douglas Arthur Teed. Such lovely houses, their owners were proud to live there and worked hard to maintain the neighbourhood.
@@PInk77W1 Rubbish. You and I know how these Detroit neighborhoods turn into tattered slums. God knows these liquidating districts are startlingly similar to the bombing annihilations in Germany at the end of WW2.
A buddy and I drove into an old dilapidated neighbor hood of Detroit out of curiosity. It was lifeless and abandoned. A police car zoomed up on us, slowed down and looked us over but kept going. I lowered my car window to take a few pictures of the windowless houses, then a different car started pacing us. Ever have the feeling that something bad is about to happen? The hairs on my neck were standing up. When we got to the next signal light, which had just turned red, we gunned it and sped out of there. That car accelerated too, but gave up once we blew through the next light and got onto a freeway on-ramp.
House designs show that these were great neighbourhoods but what is amazing are the cars parked outside an indication of people living in the midst of such a decay.
Most people don't understand that these homes are abandoned and left that way because the city and county refuse to allow those properties to be purchased unless the purchaser pays the back taxes on the properties. If a house sits empty for 10 years, guess what? They're keeping tabs on every penny owed and they are not relenting. This problem is 100% created by policy by incompetent leadership that believes taxation is the fix to all of their problems.
It’s all about jobs. Giving homeless people these homes for free would do zero. Where would they get money for heat, electricity, water,food and maintain the house? How about taxes? Way too complex.
@@Jared40 Ha ha. Absent father, horrible parenting, genetics, low self esteem. No resiliency. Caught up in American entertainment and comsumerism with false hope. Weak minds. Mental health. 80 percent of people are miserable and cope with it smoking cannabis, drinking and drugs. Definitely not because of Republicans.
@@CBourn48223 Nah, the people who left were all the workers. They left and now live in places like Troy, or fancy and more expensive towns like Rochester or Birmingham. All the thugs are still in Detroit.
They departed because they sensed a disturbing change about to advance in their white picket fence neighborhoods. They were competent in their assumptions that foretold what their homesteads turned into in due time: The skeletal remains of Detroit's ravaged districts.
Its beyond sad that homes that once held families, and still could, are left to ruin. So many things to say about this. I grew up in Detroit until i was 10 and i still remember my beautiful street, Drexel off of Jefferson. If you google that street now, it looks like a war zone that has grown into a field, which is better than the destroyed homes. We were barely scraping by, but we did not destroy where we lived, we were renters and took care of it. I know some areas are being renovated. That is wonderful, but to get to the soul of the problem it is young people with no direction, and no father, most of the time in the home. Which often leads to restless reckless behavior.
Печальное зрелище . Почему так происходит и не кто не берётся за этот штат. А ведь столько людей бездомных на улицах спят , а тут такие дома да ещё пустуют.
@@Jared40 Wow, you're just brilliant. You're just another person that likes to blame him because you don't like the person, instead of actually giving a valid reason. How about we discuss those glorious eight years under Obama and all of the good him and his band of clowns did for this country? Do you remember how they rewarded and bailed out the scumbags that caused the economy to crash 08? Not only just the crooked mortgage lenders, but he also gave GM and Chrysler billions and billions that they never paid back, and they're still making sh!t automobiles. Nope, let's just blame Trump for everything instead of blaming those that are really responsible.
Having lived and worked in the general area for 40+ years, I'm no longer amazed by these images. It goes without saying that all the copper pipes, wiring, etc, have long since been stripped from these houses, but I'm amazed that all the plywood covering the doors and windows is still there with plywood now going for $40 a sheet.
@@joecausey8508 They have no need for copper pipes either, except to sell the copper for scrap to buy drugs. There's got to be a black market for plywood too.
@@Lisa-eo9gd I thought about deconstructing one of these and re-erecting it elsewhere. Would it be worth it, though? I was told bricks were just 60 cents apiece and the labor to salvage these would likely exceed that. Unless you had lots of time, plus the requisite skill, you'd be better off just buying new materials.
While there are still blocks of abandoned and derelict homes in Detroit, I have faith in the city's spirit. I have faith in the people of Detroit. That's why I love the show "Bargain Block". A couple of gay white men believe so strongly in their mission to bring Detroit back to live that they are going block by block, buying up these homes and making them safe, habitable, beautiful but also affordable. They aren't out to gentrify these neighborhoods but to create affordable homes that families can be proud of. They aren't waiting for government subsidies or handouts to do it, but using their own strength of character and determination they want to make the city of Detroit a great place to call home again. I think they deserve some kind of recognition from the state as well as the city for their efforts. And this doesn't have to be restricted to Detroit. There are cities that have been allowed to fall into ruin across America. I wish someone would do this for cities like Gary, Indiana. I used to drive through Gary on my way to college and it made me want to cry. We as individuals have the power to change these cities and these gentlemen rebuilding Detroit are proof that we don't need the government to step in and do it for us.
Those are TV shows, they portray a fantasy world. In reality if the house that I have 24 hour surveillance for multiple months. The house would be broken into four times a day. there’s 30 years of experience the back that up
It’s so sad to think that was once home to someone. People went to work and came home to those places. Celebrated birthdays, holidays, cut the grass, shoveled the snow. Sad.
And some BEAUTIFUL brick structured homes at THAT. Man..come ON Detroit. I have two uncles there, well, one is in Southfield but...crime too bad. A waste is an understatement. This is just insane.
Even if they gave these homes away for $1 each and a grant of $250 thousand for renovations they could not get takers. The crime culture is too strong, present, and overwhelming. The politicians say we need some four million more houses, what we need are cities and states that work to keep manufacturing jobs onshore, expect violent crime to be controlled, and insist on the citizenry to be safe and prosperous enough to build strong families. But strong families were intentionally eroded to put governments in the role of mom and dad. People foolishly exchanged two parent households for welfare $$ and section 8 housing. Those who resisted the changes were marginalized and government power grew. Now most major cities won’t even enforce basic shoplifting laws, and they will look just like this in time if this is not reversed.
Its amazing, because many people in Toronto and all of Southern Ontario can only dream of owning a house. Yet in Detroit, houses are neglected and abandoned.
The jobs were lost a long time ago and people held on in those districts as long as they could. Then the Great Recession of 2007-2008 came along and took them all out. No way to pay mortgages, repair structural problems or even pay the utility bills. What are people to do but move on. Dreams need jobs. The jobs went to China and people there are living their dreams
@@slickdawg5976 - it’s probably the natural lifecycle of a city. There are ancient, once prosperous, legendary cities that are just empty dust fields now.
The real tragedy is that this story is repeated throughout this entire country. The universal cause is job losses resulting from shipping manufacturing out of the country. Service Jobs don't pay enough to support middle-class communities.
I grew up in Detroit. At the time it was spectacular. Please tear down the blight and allow us Detroiters to return home. I will be the first in line to move back..... once it's in better shape.
Can you imagine what the US government spends on supporting the military and never ending wars. What a waste! And at the expense of the people. It’s not going to get better, which is so sad!
I'd love to see what these neighborhoods looked like in the 40s and 50s. It's a damn shame what immorality, greed, corporate, and political corruption can do to a city and its community.
They probably had a young family. The mom stayed home to take care of the house and kids. Dad went to work making cars. They owned one nice car and used it to go out to eat in a special occasion and to meet up with their friends at church. Things were much better then.😢
@@bak-mariterry5180 Seriously?...more like run away by lack of jobs Seriously..Republicans have run Mississippi and West Virginia for years and look how they are the poorest states in the country...along with others like Arkansas There is video here on the poorest place in West Virginia....I was amazed at how many Trump signs I saw in the video
Each house being lost seems a separate tragic loss. So many memories. So many generations spending what is most precious Wich is time. Look what happened now. If it was a person I'd be inclined to save it.
I was with my sons and we went down a street that looked like this. They go "what happened here, dad?" I said "I don't know but we better get out of here. They might think we did it."
Back in the early - mid sixties being from the Motor City was a cool thing. The music poured out to the nation and car manufacturers were always hiring. Great times never to be forgotten.
What is ironic is that by the mid-60's Detroit was already dying. It just took another 5-10 years before people realized it. The decline actually began in the early to mid-50's.
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Hello how are you doing? I hope and pray that you are safe blessed you your family, also always remembering "The Cross of Christ." Keep him first in your life. This video is making me want to cry because just by looking at the abandoned houses filthy trash everywhere. This isn't the way to live at all. I'm just hoping and praying that Detroit will get a brand-new Governor who is a real Conservative, who will send people to go into these abandoned neighbor hoods and tear down all of the old filthy abandoned houses clean up, then rebuilding the neighborhoods reducing crime stop and frisk, the citizens of Detroit deserve better.
Knee-gros did THIS!
"America doesn't have a r a c e problem, America has a problem r a c e!"
"Never relax around blax!"
Over 600k subscribers and you beg for donations???
Are any of these houses salvageable?
@@wirelessone2986 ...sure, but the surrounding area resembles a war zone and is haunted by feral dindu nuffins!
0:17 this is so sad, each of these homes is beautifully designed, has unique features, gentle roof lines, welcoming porches, this neighbourhood would have been beautiful 50 years ago.
integration destroyed detroit. once the whites moved out, it was all down hill
This is the result of Coleman Young and twenty years of Black Nationalism. They destroyed the greatest economy the world has ever seen. Detroit in 1960 had the world's highest standard of living and per capita earnings anywhere in the world.
It was beautiful. And what you don't see now were the elm tree arches. Every street was lined with them and it was like a continuous green archway.
It's sad to say it is cheaper to knock it all down and rebuild than save all this beautiful architecture.
@@maggit6431 amazing. Good urban design
This is beyond depressing, and I am haunted by the words my 83 year old aunt told me in 2011 right before she died, " I'm glad that I lived at the peak of this country's greatness and I won't be around to see the continuing decline."
Said every old person about the next generation.
Ken B you are wrong...You can't see the decline of US and the peak of its mightiness back in 80s and 90s?
America declines when we let the blacks move north. You are literally looking at what they do.
@@timeisup6844 If you know your history well, you would understand that the US has always had foreign and domestic problems. Most of he 80's were not a particularly good time for the US.
@@kenb3552 of course there were problems every time..But those problems never really affected the country like this before..
My grandmother, mom and I were all born in Detroit. Mom used to say how beautiful it was back then in the 50's and 60's. Safe place to live, prosperous, and every summer we would drive up to Canada to see our aunts, uncles, and cousins. I remember walking up the street to play with friends, beautiful homes on a tree lined street, people sitting on their front porch wave as you go by. Breaks my heart...
Hi i am from germany and i dont understand why are so many houses abandoned. Why are all the people gone?
@@jackiecloke2808 They started leaving when the vehicle manufacturing companies moved and went to where it was cheaper to make cars.
@@Puzzoozoo ah...ok. that is sad.
Ditto l, but Philadelphia was my happy childhood memories.
@@jackiecloke2808 Probably the lack of jobs, not sure. I'm retired in Florida now.🙂
I'm nearly 80 years old and in the UK and I find this all so sad. Is it likely that these houses were occupied by car workers? Did the bean counters shut down the factories or move production elsewhere because people were buying European or Japanese cars? I suppose there were many living in these houses who relied on the car workers for their living, and so it goes on. These abandoned houses paint a picture of how the whole world will be once humanity has died out because of the way it has been been made uninhabitable. I shall now go and give my wife a hug to cheer me up!
Crazy to think that this used to be one of the best cities in America to live in back then
@@SocialismKills its hilarious when hearing the claim that its one race's fault. Tunnel vision.
@@ryanvandy1615 totally agree! But it is a permanent political class issue. They've sold us the American people out 😡
If we learned to get along with different races then the world would be much better
Detroit homes and way of life created the highest standard of living on the planet and made the USA the number place for quality of life. Is so sad to see how this has been destroyed. Bring on gentrification and jobs
@@SocialismKills such an ignorant myopic comment. Learn global history and stop being a hill billy
After a tigers day game like 5 years ago I decided to venture into the crappy parts of detroit to see if it was as bad as I’ve heard/seen on videos and let me tell you it was astonishing. He must’ve been in the same area I went, and I wasn’t stopping at any stop signs at all. I drove a good 5 min at least before even seeing another working vehicle. I saw a pack of wild dogs, and that’s when I decided this wasn’t a good place to have any sort of car problems and I got the hell outta there. It almost takes your breath away it’s so surreal that this is in the United States. Shocking to say the least.
Yeah no it can be dangerous if you dont know what your doing or have a reason being in some of them neighborhoods. Alot of drug activity. Trap houses.
@@jaymesnin from the sounds of it, no vehicles at all for 5 minutes even the gangs are not hanging out there... Its just being reclaimed by wilderness slowly but surely.
Varför US betala so mycke pengar till Ukrain deras land ser ut så här
There are many places that way. Among the opulence of D.C. and Chevy Chase there is unbelievable poverty.
One time I went back to the East San Jose neighborhood I grew up in and what I started seeing caused me to put my car into reverse to back out as fast as I could. We were poor but not like that. And everyday I thank my parents, my family and God.
I stayed in Detroit back in 2009 and stopped somewhere between the Michigan Central Railway building and the River Rouge plant on a street full of abandoned stores and businesses, not a single building still in use. It was incredible. However I didn't stay long as I felt very vulnerable. Didn't see a single soul in that area - it was like something from an end of the world sci fi movie.
Was born in Detroit 1967. Lived there my first 5 years. My grandpa was the Detroit Fire Chief. My dad went down to my grandparents house about a year ago and sent me a picture. Hardly recognized it. Broke our hearts. Beautiful houses at one time. Can visualize them remodeled. Would love to have a house like that now. People sitting on their porches, kids riding bikes, talking to neighbors, and the ice cream truck. What a shame….
Remolded? Need to raze entire sections of this area and pt up a gated community. The only way to save Detroit is to level these areas and start over. No section 8 housing.
@@sethpotter9592 “can VISUALIZE”. I understand there’s no practical way to “redo” them as standing. But it would be nice to take those floor plans and replicate them.
@@sethpotter9592 I’m from the UK - so what is Section 8 housing?
@@sallynolan5928 Do they have Google in the UK? Or maybe some other kind of web search engine that works with the English language?
@@JetFire9 Well funnily enough we do. Why don’t I just crack it open and look it up for myself.
I finally caved and left the city six years ago. Decades of watching it slowly die was enough for me. But thanks to you and your videos it helps me remain grounded and not forget...it helps me to continue praying for my roots, for Detroit.
očen pravda :-))))
When you have a house or two on blocks that go abandoned, it's proof there's a problem. When you entire streets and blocks going abandoned, that's a crisis. Even with the stuff going on today, this shouldn't be happening inside America.
It's a crisis because those people have moved to other cities and are currently destroying them.
They create the hoods ...
Move all the jobs and people are going to leave. Thanks, capitalism!
@@Cheesedick5000 capitalism didn't cause this... The fact you say that if proof you're part of the problem.
Lol America is long dead
And this is what completely And utterly giving up looks like.
This is what deindustrialization looks like.
What liberal politcs looks like
@@ItsHeavyHitterNation capitalism baby
@@ItsHeavyHitterNation show me you state
We have people that care about Detroit in our state and putting the money where their mouth is.if you have never been to Detroit don't make assumptions as it's a dead
th-cam.com/video/GnFGYqj2UQAc/w-d-xo.htmlity its far from it
I was born and raised in Detroit when it was a bustling thriving city. The riots in the 60’s took the city right down to its knees. So sad to see the blight that was left behind…
The auto companies starting to leave lit the fuse for the riots as the jobs also left.
Heart breaking. Especially when you consider that this was once a thriving community with family’s happy to own their own home, kids playing outside, life growing with hopes. So so sad to see this. This has been a slow and painful death. 😢
You forgot to mention, families with two parents. So much has changed.
These properties would make great crackhouses
This is what happens when a city is built on one product as in Detroit's case it was automobiles, and as such the sector employs the majority of the cities workforce, you also have the same thing in a mining town be it in the US, or elsewhere like here in England, once the auto firms move out of Detroit as they did, OR the pit closes the workforce either moves out or stagnates and there is little to no hope of their way of life returning as it was.
@@winnhill3736 Courtesy from your beloved CIA,that is giving you all decadence of your country...
People’s grandparents and great grandparents are screaming from their graves, “What the hell did you do?!?!”
I don't understand any of this , what's happen to the country I admire so much Aussie !!
This is too sad! Those houses and neighborhoods were probably such nice family homes with gardens and flower beds, kids playing and riding their bikes, and dogs barking - unbelievably tragic. 😪😭😥
It was , I was there
@@ezrabrooks7785 What caused the desertion?
@@TheoneGodfather city mgmt was going into decline , my father retired from the city in 71 and got tired of the weather .
67roits didn't help , but he wanted to do his 25yrs.
@@TheoneGodfather he sold a 4/2 2story , detached garage for $ 27k. In 71.
Similar to ones in vids.
We are living in the decline of this once great country. This is what happens when self serving politicians gut a country from under your nose
This has been going on for decades. My father was born in 1929 and raised there. For kicks, our family decided to visit his childhood home back in the early 1980's. Needless to say, the house was in disrepair and the neighborhood just wasn't the same. I can't imagine what it looks like now, or even if it's still standing.
Look it up on Google Earth, then report back on status😂
In 2010 I drove through my mother’s childhood neighborhood in Dayton. The houses, probably 100 years old then, we’re still occupied but didn’t look much better than these Detroit homes. The electric streetcar wires were still in place overhead, but the houses were rotting. I look at photos made there in the 40s when it was thriving. Very sad.
Beautiful architecture....really a pity to see these once stately homes disintegrate like this.
Agree! Lovely architecture!
Eh it's what Zillow is for.
thank a democrat!
@@jamessancimino thank a Democrat for what??? Crumbling infrastructure!! Great job Democrats for turning that city into a dump. Great job....stellar.
There's not much in America that makes me want to cry. But all the beautiful architecture in Detroit is one thing I want to bawl my eyes out for! 😢 This is arguably some of the best architecture in the country. When I was in high school architecture class, I did a rendering of a proud Detroit house.
Like Biden said, Can you imagine this place in 20 yrs.
Why cry for a building?? It can not help you.
thank liberalism
@@maggiemae7539 life isn’t all about what something can do to help you, the lost of these beautiful homes is sad. It’s a reflection on society and choices people have made that impacted the life of a city.
@@geraldbennett7035 I don't want to get banned for saying that.
This is what happens when you send manufacturing and other jobs to other countries just to save a buck. These neighborhoods were once alive and thriving. Wish we could see old pictures or home movies of these neighborhoods before the jobs went away. Pretty disappointed America! 😢🇺🇸
Actually most of the jobs and people went to the Metro Detroit burbs in the 60's to 80's.
I am speechless! It was like watching a horror film, such beautiful houses that are shadows of themselves. Please don't take offence of my question, but how did this happen and where did all the people go? Who ever is responsible for allowing communities to fall apart like this should be jailed!
As I kid in the early 70's many of my relatives lived in those neighborhoods that were kept immaculate. It is weird to think of how I and my cousins would spend nights sleeping on the upper porches, walk to the bakeries or little stores that seemed to be on the corner of every 4th block. We used to sneak around, open the little wooden doors and sift through the dirt under those porches and find old coins from as far back as 1910 as they were kept in good condition in the dry dirt. We figured that a lot of inebriated men coming home from the bar would lose their coins while pulling out their door keys and the coins ended up rolling through the slats in the boards. I would imagine that there are still a lot of valuable coins laying in the dirt under those porches even today.
And what changed?
@@emilylabo7053 From the looks of it...everything.
The failure of the manufacturing industry in this city was certainly a big driver for these acres of abandoned homes - but another significant factor here is that widespread sprawling suburban development is not financially sustainable. Property taxes for detached, low density residential zoning do not cover the cost of maintaining the sprawling infrastructure they require.
If you look up "Strong Towns", they have some fantastic data that shows why this kind of sprawling, car-dependent suburban development kills city finances, and why urbanization/densification is a much healthier form of city land use.
@@j3steven Faulty reasoning. You're essentially saying "a significant factor" for these "acres of abandoned homes" is that fact that they are "sprawled" out in the typical single-family detached layout, because that affects city finances. But the finances weren't affected until after the homes were abandoned. You're putting the cart before the horse. Dense housing isn't a defense against urban decay, just look at NYC in the 70s and 80s.
@@Justinw303 Three quick points in reply: (1) The city's finances WERE affected before the homes were abandoned, but just not as visibly. The influx of revenue from industrial sources kept the irresponsible urban sprawl afloat - until it didn't. In states where it is legal for municipalities to go bankrupt, there are instances where replacement of water/power infrastructure bankrupted the municipality because its suburban sprawl was unsustainable. (2) Ironically, the 70s/80s urban decay in NYC was largely caused by the abandonment of the city's good transit/walking infrastructure in favour of poorly planned car-dependant infrastructure, such as the bulldozing of dense neighbourhoods in favour of the installation of freeways. This was not healthy for the city. However, these denser neighbourhoods were able to bounce back in a way that Detroit's suburbs were not able to. (3) Single-family detached car-dependant neighbourhood layouts are typical in NA, where restrictive Euclidean zoning is pervasive, and medium density neighbourhoods are illegal to build. Thankfully, this is slowly changing. But this style of development is not typical in many other areas of the world, where cities have lots of medium to high-density neighbourhoods, which are built in more sustainable ways that incorporate active infrastructure and good public transit.
There's some sections of Detroit where the city should just fence off whole areas and turn off all utilities until they can be bulldozed. Then they can forest or farm the areas, right-sizing the city to the current population. I saw it for many years, and there are many good sections, but there's also many areas that need to be re-purposed.
Excellent idea.
That's a great idea---I'm looking at this footage and thinking "Where the HELL are the City Officials, the Mayor, anyone in local officialdom that gives even one damn? Why not at least clear these abandoned houses out---and re-use what can be salvaged? Vintage woodwork, bricks, whatever."
Black section?
I’m sure some Chinese investors would love your idea
I actually think that there are some places where they have done exactly that... but its expensive to tear down old houses and you need to do it right or they will polute the land... and you cant farm on poluted land or where there is a big ol pile of bricks ... not to mention those old brick buildings are not so easy to tear down because... well made of bricks lol.
My parents were born and raised in Detroit. Lived there in the 1930s and 1940s. We have pictures from their time there. It was once a thriving well-maintained city. Their neighborhood was filled with homes anyone would have been proud to live in. Now, their entire section of town has been leveled. No homes, no buildings, just empty fields crisscrossed by unused streets. So very sad. :(
My late mother was born in Detroit in 1921. Grew up in a big house like these were. My aunt stayed in the house till the early 80’s and told us that it was common for break-ins. She acted like it was as normal as a car driving down the street.
So sad.
This is sad, whole neighborhoods abandoned. I wish our government would invest as much money for our housing crisis as they send overseas to people that hate us.
Little known fact- more than half of all US aid is military aid to Israel.
The permanent political class have sold us out 😡 #Trump2024!!!
Remember Trump was the first to sign something that would actually benefit POC when Ice Cube joined forces with him but they immediately got rid of him thereafter 😕
@@TasyausNorseman Can't be having people riling up the plantation with their stories of freedom. :-/
Since 2014, your country has sent billions of dollars to Ukraine (my country). Now you pay even more... ) For what ? "Houston you have a problem." :-)
Every one of those houses still has "voters" in them
Democrat voters to be exact
is there a long Term Democrat Controlled city that is Healthy ?
Yes, and we can say the same thing about cemetery!
Uncle Bearie ballot is good for the next 50 year.
Why can’t some Americans admit that trump lost, he is a loser. His supporters keep saying there is loads of proof, yet still none produced after all this time. So what if the dems had cried foul after trump won in 2016, and the dems said for years that it was only because of ‘dead voters’ who voted for him. What a load of shit! Trump LOST, Biden won, now get over it and move on.
If your into architectural salvage, this is the town for you. Imagine the fireplace mantels, doors, light fixtures, stairways and more.
Wow! As someone who is familiar with the vacant building issue, this video is what St. Louis looked like 10 years ago. While they still have a long way to go, St Louis has come along way, primarily through demolition.
Detroit never fails to sadden me.
Bonjour je suis de France je vie dans un endroit magnifique en France 👍je connais pas Détroit mais ça me rends triste 😢 ou sont passés les humains ?? Dire qu’ils vivaient là était heureux mais pourquoi ce pays ou la France vas si mal !!! En fait je sais pourquoi !!!
That's ritgh
Its even sadder that detroit is not the only part of michigan that looks like that
I keep thinking it'll get better but it only seems to get worse. Does Joe Biden ever visit here?
Looks depressing ,no wonder why so much violence
Watching videos of the abandoned area of Detroit just kills me.
Not just because it was once a great place, but also because I wish I had a home
Same here.
Hope you find one..🙏
@@Binknew thank you
Go become a welder.
What's the problem, he just showed you several hundred homes for as cheap as you can get. Buy an entire block and wall it off, your own private compound in Detroit. It comes with a life times supply of firewood!
I was born and raised in Detroit in the 50s and 60s on the east side. Those houses were so beautiful. Everybody had green grass back then families taught their kids how to act and to stay off peoples green grass. None of the houses we live in are there any more? It makes me cry when I drive through there long time ago.
Never thought I'd see this in my lifetime..all of these abandoned homes and neighborhoods. What has happened to America?
I really appreciate YTubers like yourself are going out there and showing the plight of American cities. From California to New York, we got a problem. We've all been duped into believing that by sending our industries and tax dollars to other countries around the world , we're doing a good and noble thing. Except for one problem. We forgot to take care of ourselves. We need to take our country back.
LET'S GO BRANDON
Sadly the argument that the problem is too many jobs have gone overseas is true but not simple to fix. My wife buys SAS shoes made in America. Around $170 a pair. Can families with kids afford these prices? We can't have the highest salaries and standard of living. Too many here still couldn't afford American made products. Most of the rest of the world for sure couldn't. The push to raise minimum wages etc has just caused runaway inflation. Is anyone really any better off now? We need well thought out solutions with cooperation between businesses and governments. We now just have politicians pushing soundbites with NO real workable solutions. But the American voters just accept that.
@@DrummerDanVa true but is it going to help to give up? I try to buy American made but buy less products. People will spend $150 to $300 on Chinese made tennis shoes. There are American made products that can be purchased that are better quality too. Every little bit helps. We also need to stop buying from these globalist companies. I'm almost totally free from Proctor and Gamble. I buy my laundry goods, household cleaning goods, bath, body and hair care and even facial and make-up products from a much smaller company. I found that their products are better too. Plus the products are delivered once a month. I don't spend anymore than what I would if I shopped at the grocery store. Usually $60.00 to $100.00 a month. It's a company called ( melaleuca). I think that's the spelling. Whenever possible, I buy from a local farmers market and I think in terms of what's in season. If blueberries are in season, I buy a bunch and freeze. Mind you, I'm a cheapskate, living in one of the most expensive areas of the nation. I've found great clothes and furniture at second hand stores. Even if they came from China in the first place, the second time around, China is out of the equation. I'm proud to say that I have never bought a pair of Nikes.
@@michaeldillon4431wow, what an original thought
There aren’t enough people to fill the jobs we have open NOW. Without the Chinese and other countries making our stuff we’d be even more screwed. You want to make that problem worse?
So sad to see those lovely brick homes abandoned. My grandfather lived in one (Montrose)and the workmanship was remarkable.
Kathryn do you also play tennis?
what a beautifil architecture. Not to compare to those soul-less buildings from today. It's a pity. And heartbreaking to see, what kind of effect wrong rulers can take. God bless you all!
This reminds me of so many villages that are now entirely abandoned in Uttarakhand, India. Mostly because it's mountainous region with few jobs. The abandoned villages have now been reclaimed by the forest.
I’m 65. My first Canadian home was in Windsor in 1958 (I was 2 yrs old - Irish born) Detroit was THE city to live in, when I was a kid! Best zoo, world class museums, incredible INCREDIBLE, music scene! It’s a heart breaker to see this sort of footage - and there is no shortage of it on TH-cam. Cleveland, Buffalo, Gary, Toledo - all the same. And the Canadian side is only a few years behind - Hamilton, Windsor, St Catherine’s etc. - all “rust belt” relics.
This is what happens when our elected officials send middle class manufacturing jobs overseas. There is no longer a middle class to buy the goods that are manufactured.
I now live in a high mountain valley in the interior of British Columbia. Politically it’s a “woke” hell-scape. But it’s natural beauty and abundance of fruit, veggies and hunting and fishing game, make it soooo worthwhile.
God forgive us, and please don’t take revenge on our children and grandchildren, for what we have done.
I’m blessed to have been given the foresight and brains to adjust my living circumstances according to the times.
My prayers are with ALL those who come after “my time”.
Peace
We should send our elected officials overseas!🔥🔥🔥
Name 1 business that the elected politicians sent overseas, just one.
My husband hates Ronald Reagan to this day. Reagan was responsible for my husband’s steel mill closing in the early 80s.
Opposite fact for me .. born in Detroit in 60 , when we crossed into Canada , it was like a different world , clean , friendly , expensive , tho .. good memories crossing the ambassador bridge, back to det in the tunnel . Used to be the only international vehicular tunnel in the world ...
What exactly is a 'woke' political hellscape?
That’s really sad. Some of those homes can be saved. There’s so many people wanna home.
The inside is probably not savable😢.
But who is going to spend $50K fixing up a house that will only be worth $50K at most after renovation. And that assumes the buyer got the house and land for free from the city. Most persons who own these houses aren't going to fix them up.
@@TheOldTapeArchive I thought you never own the land in Detroit? You will have to fight the squatters because they are waiting for contractors to repair properties so they can move in
All the pipes and electrical wiring gets ripped out and sold for scrap. It costs way more to try to repair that than it costs to build a new home -- someplace where you don't have to sit on your porch with a gun to ward off thieves.
@@W1se0ldg33zer And I don’t think they have street lights.
I always wonder who owns these properties. These streets are neighbourhood graveyards. It's apocalyptic. Thank you for the upload.
This is so depressing, blocks and blocks of abandoned homes. Where I live there is the odd place that is abandoned but not on this level. So sad and I don't understand. Such beautiful little homes. Please stay safe Charlie.
While watching this video I can picture those neighborhoods full of life at a time. Neighbors visiting with each other while their kids were playing, new cars parked in the driveways, nice yards, clean streets, etc. It's a really shame to see those once beautiful homes in the condition there in now. Kind of reminds me of the old west "ghost towns" or american ruins.
Liberal policies you prolly voted for
@@joeblow9548 don’t know who he voted for, I sure didn’t. The crazy thing is they will vote again for the same people who did this
When you picture those neighborhoods full of life, was it black life, or white life?
@@joecausey8508 All the above. Mixed batch. It really doesn't matter at this point.
@@joeblow9548 No i didn't vote for any of it. I don't live in Detroit. The people who did vote for the candidates who enacted such policies, well they got what they voted for. Sad....
Absolutely heart rending. All the families lost, our nation weakened and the very core of our society collapsed. May God help those that lost everything. 🙏
Because politicians are there for their own pockets. And people still vote for them.
@@Deontjie Truth. Money and power.
I grew up here in the 60’s and these homes were occupied then. After the riots and the white flight these neighbourhoods began to deteriorate, the copper scrapers and drug dealers moved in and this is the result. Industry and big business left. Then there were years of corruption in the democratic leadership and this is it, the death of a city.
We t on holiday to Dearborn michigan in 1978 from Scotland to visit an aunt and uncle. Their home was just like these abandoned houses, it was a beautiful house ,lovely street and safe neighbourhood, where everyone took care of their property with pride.The families gone now, my aunt and uncle are now cremated and buried in Scotland. I look at these sad sad pics and wonder if their street has ended up the same way.
I have wonderful happy memories of my visit to Detroit.
I always get greeted, "welcome to the jungle." No jobs, high crime, no family structure, no pride in home/property ownership, disrespect in others leads to the great demise of any neighborhood, city, and country.
Imagine how beautiful these homes were when they were built. Sad to think this is America in the 2020s
It's crazy! Most people can't even afford a small house anymore while these big homes sit empty.
You can still buy those houses for 5K dump 40 K into remodeling it. And get robbed of your materials on a daily basis
I recently visited Detroit and drove around like this. The video is very accurate and there are many neighborhoods like this. I saw so many abandoned homes, schools, churches, and small commercial structures...just complete degradation. However, to be more postive. Downtown seemed to be doing ok (not great) but decently enough.
That guys singing scared everyone away.....
Grew up in a suburb outside of Detroit, born and raised. I hate seeing this, I know they were once beautiful homes. My grandmother had a house in Detroit. Looked like one of these. She came from Italy and bought the house in 1945. What a beautiful street it was. It was demolished years and years ago. Incredibly sad. ☹
My grandma, born in ‘36, recently passed, she grew up near Tireman, her and my grandpa knew Detroit in it’s prime. They raised their kids, my Mom and her brothers, in Sterling Heights during the 60’s and 70’s. I live in Windsor, Detroit is close to home for me, that’s why I watch this channel.
@@starwalker784 I would say, building freeways through existing neighborhoods was one reason it got bad. Everyone moved to the suburbs. And it got really bad like this because of drugs, IMO.
@@joelyons3713 Freeways destroyed many American cities. Deindustrialization as well.
@@starwalker784 Let’s ignore the elephant in the room. We all know what happened to the once proud city of Detroit like in so many other cities. My parents grew up here in the 1940s through the 1960s. This was once a beautiful proud neighborhood. Winters with all the snow were awesome.
@@starwalker784 Politics
Liberal politcs intentionally destroyed Detroit
Meanwhile, just across the Detroit River, any one of these houses (before decay) would sell for $500.000. Tells a story, doesn’t it!
Kudos to you, Mr. Charlie four have travelled everywhere in America and even some bits of Canada to find the worst neighbourhoods and you make this home coming back to the 313 it’s almost heartbreaking but I fully appreciate your work. It’s almost an art to document all this.
I was born and raised on Elmhurst St & Hamilton. It hurts that the city that made me is falling apart like this. Greed,corruption and politics
I think Detroit was the victim of competition and automation. Kia, hyundai, toyota, honda, nissan, etc. All took a piece of the pie from the big 3. Automation removed jobs.
It is a result of moral degradation and the glorification of gang/drug culture with a heavy helping of “white man bad” mixed in for good measure to avoid accountability. They destroy their own city and treat it like a dumping ground. I spent a lot of time in Detroit and witnessed it all firsthand. Most of the people who live there are far from victims.
Unions to a degree.
@@buckmclean8391 Totally man. Those damn big corporations came in there and destroyed all these houses. After those workers lost their jobs those gosh darn mega corporations took mortgages out just to destroy the place crazy. A group of greedy mega corporations from Africa did this.
Did Henry and the like ever really want to pay a living wage
So sad to see what was once row after row of beautiful homes.
People are going away more and more over the years and houses keep vanishing, making room for more trees and saving the Earth by demolishing houses.
Wow, what beautiful neighborhood this once was and could still be.
Is now
As long as people are afraid to speak the truth.....this carnage will persist and expand.
All speech must be Party approved for Allowed Thinking
What truth are you referring to?
@Once Again like you don't know. What, can't see...or just can't admit... the obvious? Plain as the nose on your face, IF you honestly look around...
@@wisecracker1814 just another 🤡
Democrats do this.....
The volume of neighborhoods like this in this once great city is staggering. They were such beautiful homes. It is by far the most depressing city I've ever been too.
what people may not know is the Detroit was once a beautiful artistic locale, check out Douglas Arthur Teed. Such lovely houses, their owners were proud to live there and worked hard to maintain the neighbourhood.
I was born and raised in Detroit. Southwest area. This breaks my heart.
My parents lived in Detroit, back in the early 50s. It was a beautiful, vibrant, safe city to raise a family in. How sad it has turned in to this.
and then the good ole riots in the 1960's
And you know truthfully the reason why this once prominent working-class city has reversed into a ruinous sty.
@@isabelbeckerman9226 democrats
@@PInk77W1 Rubbish. You and I know how these Detroit neighborhoods turn into tattered slums. God knows these liquidating districts are startlingly similar to the bombing annihilations in Germany at the end of WW2.
JUST THE RATS ARE SAFE NOW
A buddy and I drove into an old dilapidated neighbor hood of Detroit out of curiosity. It was lifeless and abandoned. A police car zoomed up on us, slowed down and looked us over but kept going. I lowered my car window to take a few pictures of the windowless houses, then a different car started pacing us. Ever have the feeling that something bad is about to happen? The hairs on my neck were standing up. When we got to the next signal light, which had just turned red, we gunned it and sped out of there. That car accelerated too, but gave up once we blew through the next light and got onto a freeway on-ramp.
House designs show that these were great neighbourhoods but what is amazing are the cars parked outside an indication of people living in the midst of such a decay.
Prior to WWII, Detroit was one of the wealthiest and most beautiful cities in the country.
How does America have a massive homeless problem and yet all these houses are left abandoned to rot, so sad 😢
There’s and answer for that, but also an excellent observation
Most people don't understand that these homes are abandoned and left that way because the city and county refuse to allow those properties to be purchased unless the purchaser pays the back taxes on the properties. If a house sits empty for 10 years, guess what? They're keeping tabs on every penny owed and they are not relenting.
This problem is 100% created by policy by incompetent leadership that believes taxation is the fix to all of their problems.
It’s all about jobs. Giving homeless people these homes for free would do zero. Where would they get money for heat, electricity, water,food and maintain the house? How about taxes? Way too complex.
@@Jared40 Socialism is the cause for this. Americans have become lazy and can't stop sucking off of the government tit.
@@Jared40 Ha ha. Absent father, horrible parenting, genetics, low self esteem. No resiliency. Caught up in American entertainment and comsumerism with false hope. Weak minds. Mental health. 80 percent of people are miserable and cope with it smoking cannabis, drinking and drugs. Definitely not because of Republicans.
families used to live here and one by one they all left, kinda sad
Even sadder is that where they went they brought their destructive nature with them.
@@CBourn48223 Nah, the people who left were all the workers. They left and now live in places like Troy, or fancy and more expensive towns like Rochester or Birmingham. All the thugs are still in Detroit.
They departed because they sensed a disturbing change about to advance in their white picket fence neighborhoods. They were competent in their assumptions that foretold what their homesteads turned into in due time: The skeletal remains of Detroit's ravaged districts.
Its beyond sad that homes that once held families, and still could, are left to ruin. So many things to say about this. I grew up in Detroit until i was 10 and i still remember my beautiful street, Drexel off of Jefferson. If you google that street now, it looks like a war zone that has grown into a field, which is better than the destroyed homes. We were barely scraping by, but we did not destroy where we lived, we were renters and took care of it. I know some areas are being renovated. That is wonderful, but to get to the soul of the problem it is young people with no direction, and no father, most of the time in the home. Which often leads to restless reckless behavior.
Печальное зрелище . Почему так происходит и не кто не берётся за этот штат. А ведь столько людей бездомных на улицах спят , а тут такие дома да ещё пустуют.
60 years of local political corruption!
And four years of Donald Trump
@@Jared40 Wow, you're just brilliant. You're just another person that likes to blame him because you don't like the person, instead of actually giving a valid reason. How about we discuss those glorious eight years under Obama and all of the good him and his band of clowns did for this country? Do you remember how they rewarded and bailed out the scumbags that caused the economy to crash 08? Not only just the crooked mortgage lenders, but he also gave GM and Chrysler billions and billions that they never paid back, and they're still making sh!t automobiles.
Nope, let's just blame Trump for everything instead of blaming those that are really responsible.
Having lived and worked in the general area for 40+ years, I'm no longer amazed by these images. It goes without saying that all the copper pipes, wiring, etc, have long since been stripped from these houses, but I'm amazed that all the plywood covering the doors and windows is still there with plywood now going for $40 a sheet.
Criminals have no need for plywood. 🙄
@@joecausey8508 They have no need for copper pipes either, except to sell the copper for scrap to buy drugs. There's got to be a black market for plywood too.
This is all so foreign to me. Could the brick, etc. be safely and profitably removed and used elsewhere? This situation is such a shame!
@@Lisa-eo9gd The brick can't be profitably removed and reused. The old mortar is a PAIN to remove, making it not really worth the hassle.
@@Lisa-eo9gd I thought about deconstructing one of these and re-erecting it elsewhere. Would it be worth it, though? I was told bricks were just 60 cents apiece and the labor to salvage these would likely exceed that. Unless you had lots of time, plus the requisite skill, you'd be better off just buying new materials.
While there are still blocks of abandoned and derelict homes in Detroit, I have faith in the city's spirit. I have faith in the people of Detroit. That's why I love the show "Bargain Block". A couple of gay white men believe so strongly in their mission to bring Detroit back to live that they are going block by block, buying up these homes and making them safe, habitable, beautiful but also affordable. They aren't out to gentrify these neighborhoods but to create affordable homes that families can be proud of. They aren't waiting for government subsidies or handouts to do it, but using their own strength of character and determination they want to make the city of Detroit a great place to call home again. I think they deserve some kind of recognition from the state as well as the city for their efforts. And this doesn't have to be restricted to Detroit. There are cities that have been allowed to fall into ruin across America. I wish someone would do this for cities like Gary, Indiana. I used to drive through Gary on my way to college and it made me want to cry. We as individuals have the power to change these cities and these gentlemen rebuilding Detroit are proof that we don't need the government to step in and do it for us.
In the 1940's - 1960's these naborhoods were some of the nicest places on earth. Good job U.S. Congress & Federal Reserve!
I can imagine how beautiful that neighborhood was in its heyday. The architecture on those houses are so beautiful and unique. How can this happen??
Out sourcing. Detroit was motor city. But every one has that cheaper car, right!
@@billmoretz8718 unions and democrats did it.
The scary part is the people that destroyed these neighborhoods have moved into another area.
The people were Africans.
@@wordsofcheresie936 Most were Amish actually
@@jamesrecknor6752 I say they were Hollanders mostly🤣
@@wordsofcheresie936 Then, what caused the drugged whites living in poverty in Appalachia, Arkansas and Missisppi?
@@jamesrecknor6752 lol
Pictures of a decaying, rotten society. Instead of waging war all over the world, clean up your country!
Absolutely tragic. I live there as a child and it was magical
There is a team of two renovating such houses in Detroit. They even have a show on HGTV. We need more people with vision like those two.
Yes I saw that ! Great show
Those are TV shows, they portray a fantasy world. In reality if the house that I have 24 hour surveillance for multiple months. The house would be broken into four times a day. there’s 30 years of experience the back that up
Yeah,but they wouldn't move there and live with those animals!
@@carlinshowalter1806 - It's called gentrification. But it needs to be amass... not just one or two houses.
U mean money
It’s so sad to think that was once home to someone. People went to work and came home to those places. Celebrated birthdays, holidays, cut the grass, shoveled the snow. Sad.
Can I get your permission to visually sample some of this for a backing video track for a music project?
This is unbelievable from Australia 🇦🇺
And some BEAUTIFUL brick structured homes at THAT. Man..come ON Detroit. I have two uncles there, well, one is in Southfield but...crime too bad. A waste is an understatement. This is just insane.
Southfield was a nice place 20-30 years ago, but for every empty lot and vacant home there's a household that moved to another area, to destroy.
Even if they gave these homes away for $1 each and a grant of $250 thousand for renovations they could not get takers. The crime culture is too strong, present, and overwhelming. The politicians say we need some four million more houses, what we need are cities and states that work to keep manufacturing jobs onshore, expect violent crime to be controlled, and insist on the citizenry to be safe and prosperous enough to build strong families. But strong families were intentionally eroded to put governments in the role of mom and dad. People foolishly exchanged two parent households for welfare $$ and section 8 housing. Those who resisted the changes were marginalized and government power grew. Now most major cities won’t even enforce basic shoplifting laws, and they will look just like this in time if this is not reversed.
Its amazing, because many people in Toronto and all of Southern Ontario can only dream of owning a house. Yet in Detroit, houses are neglected and abandoned.
The people are of a TOTALLY DIFFERENT MINDSET.
The jobs were lost a long time ago and people held on in those districts as long as they could. Then the Great Recession of 2007-2008 came along and took them all out. No way to pay mortgages, repair structural problems or even pay the utility bills. What are people to do but move on. Dreams need jobs. The jobs went to China and people there are living their dreams
They can own a house in the Prairies or the Atlantic.
@@slickdawg5976 - it’s probably the natural lifecycle of a city. There are ancient, once prosperous, legendary cities that are just empty dust fields now.
From its gloried past to the depths of despair. The Perfect metaphor of America.
Thank you for not saying anything. Words would have been superfluous, and thank you for your courage.
The real tragedy is that this story is repeated throughout this entire country. The universal cause is job losses resulting from shipping manufacturing out of the country. Service Jobs don't pay enough to support middle-class communities.
Imagine what these neighborhoods were like when these homes were new...All those memories....
This is normal in cities where once industrial companies depended on labor force. Now it is dead and nothing more.
It's atrocious to think about all the money we're sending elsewhere when this exists in our own country.
Joe's 85 billion dollar going away gift for Taliban was amazing
@@jamesrecknor6752
Yeah,...cult boy.
BLAMEJOE.
@@Steven-re3tx Joe was in charge, was he not?
I grew up in Detroit. At the time it was spectacular. Please tear down the blight and allow us Detroiters to return home. I will be the first in line to move back..... once it's in better shape.
What part of Detroit is this, and are there any plans to buy and renovate these?
Can you imagine what the US government spends on supporting the military and never ending wars. What a waste! And at the expense of the people. It’s not going to get better, which is so sad!
I'd love to see what these neighborhoods looked like in the 40s and 50s. It's a damn shame what immorality, greed, corporate, and political corruption can do to a city and its community.
Damn well said!
Ran by the Democrats...... into the ground . 😢
They probably had a young family. The mom stayed home to take care of the house and kids. Dad went to work making cars. They owned one nice car and used it to go out to eat in a special occasion and to meet up with their friends at church. Things were much better then.😢
@@bak-mariterry5180 Seriously?...more like run away by lack of jobs
Seriously..Republicans have run Mississippi and West Virginia for years and look how they are the poorest states in the country...along with others like Arkansas
There is video here on the poorest place in West Virginia....I was amazed at how many Trump signs I saw in the video
Before blacks got there? I bet it was a thriving neighborhood
Each house being lost seems a separate tragic loss. So many memories. So many generations spending what is most precious Wich is time. Look what happened now. If it was a person I'd be inclined to save it.
This is so sad. It's a shame some of those houses can't be restored and have to be pulled down.
It looks like some of these houses could be brought back with enough money and rebuilding the supporting infrastructure.
I was with my sons and we went down a street that looked like this. They go "what happened here, dad?" I said "I don't know but we better get out of here. They might think we did it."
Haha, that's great!
Back in the early - mid sixties being from the Motor City was a cool thing. The music poured out to the nation and car manufacturers were always hiring. Great times never to be forgotten.
What is ironic is that by the mid-60's Detroit was already dying. It just took another 5-10 years before people realized it. The decline actually began in the early to mid-50's.
My friend, by the shape of those homes, it looks like it has been forgotten.
the state of disrepair of these homes is amazing. These people need to do basic home maintenance
I can't believe what I am watching. It's heartbreaking to see the sad state of these once beautiful neighborhoods.