Ive done a ton of HUD work down there revitalizing neighborhoods. HUD comes in and bulldozes decrepit neighborhood blocks, then I build affordable single family housing. The customers are most often black, with poor credit, and unable to get a loan. So HUD has them takes classes, rehabilitates their credit, have them work within a program with close oversight and moves them in. Its a pretty successful program and the people have been very nice. After we completed one neighborhood, the people had a big BBQ thanking us.

Of course the customers are not of the gangbanging variety. It is working class poor and mostly two parent families or older couples with a few single mothers.

Pulte Homes, the third largest home builder in the nation, has almost completely razed the Brightmoor neighborhood in NW Detroit, and done the same type of thing.

People whose vision of Detroit is that it is a warzone have never been here. Since Duggan has become Mayor and while James Craig was Chief of Police (great chief will never vote for him as governor) Detroits neighborhoods have made great strides. Of course like all major American cities it has its problems with violence and crime and urban blight is a bigger problem than most cities but Id have to say it is safer than Chicago, St Louis, Washington D.C. or Baltimore. That 70s tag of Murder Capital has long since gone.

In case you didnt know, in 1960 there were 2.3 million people within the city limits of Detroit and it was the nations fourth largest city behind NYC, LA and Chicago and right now there are about 700k (the suburban area surrounding Detroit still has about 4+ million) This is mostly due to the 70s stagflation and 80s and 90s siphoning off high paying auto jobs and the factories to Mexico and Canada. With that type of depopulation blight is going to be a huge problem. The City still has the area to maintain but not the tax base to pay for it.

One more thing -- as the nation burned last summer you didnt hear about any of that nonsense in Detroit.

Sorry for the tangent but ignorant comments about the city I grew up in annoys me. Not directed at you MichiganisRed.

Ive done a ton of HUD work down there revitalizing neighborhoods. HUD comes in and bulldozes decrepit neighborhood blocks, then I build affordable single family housing. The customers are most often black, with poor credit, and unable to get a loan. So HUD has them takes classes, rehabilitates their credit, have them work within a program with close oversight and moves them in. Its a pretty successful program and the people have been very nice. After we completed one neighborhood, the people had a big BBQ thanking us.

Of course the customers are not of the gangbanging variety. It is working class poor and mostly two parent families or older couples with a few single mothers.

Pulte Homes, the third largest home builder in the nation, has almost completely razed the Brightmoor neighborhood in NW Detroit, and done the same type of thing.

People whose vision of Detroit is that it is a warzone have never been here. Since Duggan has become Mayor and while James Craig was Chief of Police (great chief will never vote for him as governor) Detroits neighborhoods have made great strides. Of course like all major American cities it has its problems with violence and crime and urban blight is a bigger problem than most cities but Id have to say it is safer than Chicago, St Louis, Washington D.C. or Baltimore. That 70s tag of Murder Capital has long since gone.

In case you didnt know, in 1960 there were 2.3 million people within the city limits of Detroit and it was the nations fourth largest city behind NYC, LA and Chicago and right now there are about 700k (the suburban area surrounding Detroit still has about 4+ million) This is mostly due to the 70s stagflation and 80s and 90s siphoning off high paying auto jobs and the factories to Mexico and Canada. With that type of depopulation blight is going to be a huge problem. The City still has the area to maintain but not the tax base to pay for it.

One more thing -- as the nation burned last summer you didnt hear about any of that nonsense in Detroit.

Sorry for the tangent but ignorant comments about the city I grew up in annoys me.

Ive done a ton of HUD work down there revitalizing neighborhoods. HUD comes in and bulldozes decrepit neighborhood blocks, then I build affordable single family housing. The customers are most often black, with poor credit, and unable to get a loan. So HUD has them takes classes, rehabilitates their credit, have them work within a program with close oversight and moves them in. Its a pretty successful program and the people have been very nice. After we completed one neighborhood, the people had a big BBQ thanking us.

Of course the customers are not of the gangbanging variety. It is working class poor and mostly two parent families or older couples with a few single mothers.

Pulte Homes, the third largest home builder in the nation, has almost completely razed the Brightmoor neighborhood in NW Detroit, and done the same type of thing.

People whose vision of Detroit is that it is a warzone have never been here. Since Duggan has become Mayor and while James Craig was Chief of Police (great chief will never vote for him as governor) Detroits neighborhoods have made great strides. Of course like all major American cities it has its problems with violence and crime and urban blight is a bigger problem than most cities but Id have to say it is safer than Chicago, St Louis, Washington D.C. or Baltimore. That 70s tag of Murder Capital has long since gone.

In case you didnt know, in 1960 there were 2.3 million people within the city limits of Detroit and it was the nations fourth largest city behind NYC, LA and Chicago and right now there are about 700k (the suburban area surrounding Detroit still has about 4+ million) This is mostly due to the 70s stagflation and 80s and 90s siphoning off high paying auto jobs and the factories to Mexico and Canada. With that type of depopulation blight is going to be a huge problem. The City still has the area to maintain but not the tax base to pay for it.

One more thing -- as the nation burned last summer you didnt hear about any of that nonsense in Detroit.

Ive done a ton of HUD work down there revitalizing neighborhoods. HUD comes in and bulldozes decrepit neighborhood blocks, then I build affordable single family housing. The customers are most often black, with poor credit, and unable to get a loan. So HUD has them takes classes, rehabilitates their credit, have them work within a program with close oversight and moves them in. Its a pretty successful program and the people have been very nice. After we completed one neighborhood, the people had a big BBQ thanking us.

Of course the customers are not of the gangbanging variety. It is working class poor and mostly two parent families or older couples with a few single mothers.

Pulte Homes, the third largest home builder in the nation, has almost completely razed the Brightmoor neighborhood in NW Detroit, and done the same type of thing.

People whose vision of Detroit is that it is a warzone have never been here. Since Duggan has become Mayor and while James Craig was Chief of Police (great chief will never vote for him as governor) Detroits neighborhoods have made great strides. Of course like all major American cities it has its problems with violence and crime and urban blight is a bigger problem than most cities but Id have to say it is safer than Chicago, St Louis, Washington D.C. or Baltimore. That 70s tag of Murder Capital has long since gone.

In case you didnt know, in 1960 there were 2.3 million people within the city limits of Detroit and it was the nations third largest city behind NYC, LA and Chicago and right now there are about 700k (the suburban area surrounding Detroit still has about 4+ million) This is mostly due to the 70s stagflation and 80s and 90s siphoning off high paying auto jobs and the factories to Mexico and Canada. With that type of depopulation blight is going to be a huge problem. The City still has the area to maintain but not the tax base to pay for it.

One more thing -- as the nation burned last summer you didnt hear about any of that nonsense in Detroit.

Ive done a ton of HUD work down there revitalizing neighborhoods. HUD comes in and bulldozes decrepit neighborhood blocks, then I build affordable single family housing. The customers are most often black, with poor credit, and unable to get a loan. So HUD has them takes classes, rehabilitates their credit, have them work within a program with close oversight and moves them in. Its a pretty successful program and the people have been very nice. After we completed one neighborhood, the people had a big BBQ thanking us.

Of course the customers are not of the gangbanging variety. It is working class poor and mostly two parent families or older couples with a few single mothers.

Pulte Homes, the third largest home builder in the nation, has almost completely razed the Brightmoor neighborhood in NW Detroit, and done the same type of thing.

People whose vision of Detroit is that it is a warzone have never been here. Since Duggan has become Mayor and while James Craig was Chief of Police (great chief will never vote for him as governor) Detroits neighborhoods have made great strides. Of course like all major American cities it has its problems with violence and crime and urban blight is a bigger problem than most cities but Id have to say it is safer than Chicago, St Louis, Washington D.C. or Baltimore. That 70s tag of Murder Capital has long since gone.

One more thing -- as the nation burned last summer you didnt hear about any of that nonsense in Detroit.