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One of the things that stands out to me is the brickwork on some of the houses. I'm sure there is damage inside, but the shells look stable. I'd imagine one deterrent to gentrification would be that the tax backlog might be more expensive than the house itself. I noticed one well-kept house in between four dilapidated ruins. I am always impressed by the people living there who seem to try so hard to keep things up. Great job, CharlieBo313!
Property Taxes and the Everyone Pollutes Act are the main reasons old structures aren't saved. My 100 year-old house can't be sold without being gutted due to lead based paint under five coats of latex, and the real plaster under gypsum drywall that COULD have asbestos (or horse hair) filler in it. Who lets their kids chew on walls????
This is just sad.... You can almost visualize the splendor of these houses back in the 1940's.... Just poor, dilapidated shells of nothingness now. I live 30 miles west of Detroit in Plymouth. Ashamed of my own state. 😢
This is what happens when White people leave an area. There is nothing remaining to maintain a modern city when the people that remain are incapable of living up to modern societal requirements.
@@afridgetoofar1818not other countries but rather other non union companies in other states and yes the little remaining market share the big 3 has (GM went from 60% in the 1960’s to barely 15% now) they have moved some to Mexico
Banana Republic economies. Decades of attacks and degradation to labor unions. Outsourcing of jobs to other countries while the politicians or people did nothing to stop it. Same with Buffalo. Same with northern Ohio.
My wife and I were born and raised in Detroit when it was one of the finest cities in the Midwest. Last year we did a similar tour of our old neighborhoods. Same scene. Most of the major Midwest cities had the same fate. Once the Civil rights activists took over, the cities went down hill. Sad.
Yes you are so correct, I’m born and raised in Cleveland Ohio, exactly the same way. Burned down beautiful old mansions it was disgusting and white flight left that city as the 15th worse place to live in America!!
In the 1930s, Detroit was the fastest growing city in the western hemisphere. When I was a kid back in the 1960s, I remember it as being so important to our nation. That's were all the cars were made. Some Hollywood films premiered in the Motor City. It's sad that Detroit is only a shell of what it had been.
@@AlexanderWaylon Detroit turned into a dump soon as all the whites left lol.. we were the only ones actually maintaining the city, cutting grass, building etc.. the basketball people just destroy .
EXPLAIN TO ME SOMETHING.. My relatives , grandparents, great aunts and uncles lived in the exact same type of older home neighborhoods in Cleveland many years ago. Many didnt speak english yet, they didnt have money, worked as laborers to begin with but thru hard work managed to live in these older homes and the neighborhoods were kept nice. I have pictures of very nice older neighborhoods that they lived in for years. After years of saving money, they moved further out from the city. When they moved the cities became predominantly black neighborhoods and now today they look like this. WHY ? My relatives didnt have Any more finances and only by their grit and determination to have something nice - or live somewhere nice - they made it that way where they lived. I have the pictures to prove it! And NO welfare. None of them took it! It infuriates me when I hear blacks say whites "have no culture"! Everyone has a culture and I will take mine anyday .
Well...there DID used to be Union Sinecure jobs. Those were Gone by the Eighties. By the time You moved out, the housing was becoming Old, and more expensive to maintain. Detroit Blacks (most of whom fled Persecution in The South) also found it, to some extent...here in the North. They were only permitted to live in the overcrowded "Black Bottom" neighborhood, East of Downtown, and "Paradise Valley" (misnomer-although there were jazz clubs and thriving businesses) immediately to the north of there. Those two Hoods were destroyed to build a Freeway, and to expand a medical center. Housing for the well-off (Lafayette Park) and the Not-so-well-off (Public housing for the former residents) was built there. There was also a small African American Enclave on the Near West Side. The area between Linwood and the Lodge Freeway (which includes the Notorious 12th Street-now "Rosa Parks Blvd") became Black after World War Two, when the Jewish residents fled to the Suburbs. The 1967 Riot began in that area. There were abuses by the then-White Police Department, plus the Young Men were peeved that, at the time, they couldn't get Draft deferments, and ended up being sent to Vietnam. White Boys in College DID get excused from the Draft. In Cleveland, the Black area was originally Central-then Hough. Housing conditions were Poor. The neighborhood Cleveland Clinic is located in also changed early on.
All of humanity has culture, absolutely. that is just divisive narrative and it's popular today for people who enjoy being a victim and an excuse to hate.
It even appears creepy in daylight! A single pedestrian walking resembles a target. I left Detroit in 88 and never returned. This is the Detroit that media won't show.
@@dive2drive314well a few transformers movies was filmed in Detroit batman the dark night was filmed in Detroit only weak people fear Detroit it's worst in Cali tbh gang banging can't wear a certain color or you will die can't go down the right street or you will die if you wanna survive Detroit just mind your business but y'all people can't seem to do that🤷
SF won't, there's still value there even if the city is in a doom loop. detroit doesn't have any particular value that i'm aware, e.g. coast lines, natural resources, transportation hub, etc.. granted, i didn't look it up, but what's attractive in detroit?
Not about politicians it’s about blacks destroying neighborhoods, they don’t own it so burn it down. I’m from Cleveland and saw the 196; riots and how they burned down Millionaires Row! Absolutely disgusting, white flight came and moved to the suburbs, them came HUD and you had to rent to them. Not one thing has changed in Cleveland in 60 years or in any other large city. Sad 😔
Imagine if the hood was about building instead of destroying. Fixing up all that dilapidated bs, and turning it into something nice. Some people have no pride in the places they call home.
Cradle of civilization: 🙄 In only 50,000 years they gave us elephant dung huts, the pointy stick, and the practice of shitting and pissing in your own drinking water supply 🤔🤔
People moved in across from us. When the children got out of the truck,they dropped paper plates and water bottles. The children stepped over them on the way to the house. The papers are still there today. They trashed their whole house and yard. No kidding. About 12 dogs feral cats. Rats. Township says there's nothing they can do .
@@edwardzarnowski5558 These situations have more to do with character and mentality than they do with money. But people have been brainwashed into thinking that it's money, and we all need to be taxed more so they can have some (after government steals the majority of it, but we can't talk about that). The simple fact is that people with the type of character and mentality that dumps trash in the yard will never have money. Even if they won the lottery they'd go right back to poverty.
You clearly don't know about the incredible boom in urban agriculture all around Detroit. It's not an exaggeration that only those remain in the city who can't afford to leave. With most of the population gone businesses have gone down and as a result there's scarcity of essentials like food in the sparse and poor neighborhoods of Detroit. The inhabitants have seen this and the relatively cheap land value as an opportunity to turn some of this derelict landscape into small scale farms and gardens which supply the local community with healthy organic food. It's an opportunity born out of unfortunate circumstances but from the rubbles of this ruin of a city has emerged an exemplary specimen of modern agriculture that's sustainable both environmentally and socially. It's not like those houses would be in impeccable condition if it wasn't for the people left there. Those houses are abandoned so no one's taking care of them. Not so there's no crime, not to say there isn't a lot of crime but in Detroit more than perhaps anywhere based on what I've seen the hood very much is about creation. The rise of urban agriculture in Detroit appears as both non profit organisations giving out food for free to help the impoverished and succesful businesses who are managing to make profit. It reminds me of the saying "life finds a way" though the incredible things happening in the wrecks of Detroit are not to be taken for granted. Real efforts have been made by the very people living there to revitalise some of the neighborhoods of Detroit. Though of course this alone isn't enough to fill the hole left by the fall of the auto industry. I'm Finnish and I've not had the pleasure of visiting the city but I've spent a lot of time researching this incredible grassroots action happening in Detroit. It's an inspiring example of community and diligence. I suggest you look into it too, maybe learn a thing or two about your fellow Americans.
Most of these streets used to good solid middle class neighborhoods. The jobs left, then the folks that could, moved to the outlying suburbs, leaving behind the poor & unemployed. The suburbs have maintained the prosperity that Detroit once enjoyed. A succession of corrupt politicians gutted what was left. I left Detroit & the state, in the mid '70's, and will never go back.
I lived four blocks from Detroit for 66 years. As Blacks moved in to the nicer areas the Whites moved out to the suburbs. Now Blacks have moved to the suburbs because they can't take it anymore. When Blacks move into an area, city etc, crime moves in and eventually neighborhood homes fall apart because most of the people will not maintain them. You see this in all of our major urban cities. People need to step up.
Notice how there’s no mention of how the banks redlined those areas once they turned black and how the federal government funded home loans only to white families in the suburbs. Redlining keeps investment from going into those areas. So, people can’t get a loan to fix up their house. Redlining has long been the cause of the expansion of the ghetto. Even the federal government admitted that. So, it’s crazy that people to this day will ignore the policies that made it this way. They blame race, which is what those people who put it in place want you to think.
That’s called redlining. That’s what happens when blacks move into an area. It forces those areas to decline.!That keeps people from getting home loans to fix up their house. This has happened across America. Even the federal government admitted it. Just like how the federal government only funded home loans for white families in the suburbs.
That’s called redlining. That’s what happens when blacks move into an area. That keeps people from getting home loans to fix up their house. This has happened across America. Even the federal government admitted it. Just like how the federal government only funded home loans for white families in the suburbs. Detroit was gonna decline anyway since it’s a single economy city…just like the rest of the rust belt. Corruption just made it worse.
That’s called redlining. That’s what happens when minorities move into an area. That keeps them from getting home loans to fix up their house. This has happened across America. Even the federal government admitted it. Just like how the federal government only funded home loans for white families in the suburbs.
That’s called redlining. That’s what happens when blacks move into an area. That keeps people from getting home loans to fix up their house. This has happened across America. Just like how the federal government only funded home loans for white families in the suburbs.
Haiti was ruined by Overpopulation. They were enslaved by Colonists. But, Also, American Presidents of Both political parties put guys like Papa and Baby Doc in Power over there. Anyone but a Communist! Cuba isn't Perfect, either, but it's Valhalla next to Haiti. ...and, do you KNOW how the AIDS Epidemic Really began in America?? Look up "Hemo-Caribbean Plasma Center." They were open in Port-au-Prince, from 1971-early 1972. Some of the donors had picked up the virus, as guest workers in Africa. What REALLY spread HIV, However, was that they had 7000 donors, giving plasma at Fifty Plasmapharesis machines, every two weeks...and, they Rarely changed out the needles or tubing!! They were paid the equivalent of three American dollars/day. The American connection?? A NYC Stockbroker was involved, and most of that plasma went into the veins of Hemophiliacs in this Country. Hemophiliacs are ALL Male, and a small percentage of them would have been Gay. And, SURE..having reciprocal anal intercourse at Orgies spread the Virus, along with Addicts not having access to clean needles/syringes. There needed to be a Sentinel Event, However, to make it So Much WORSE in America than in other First World Nations. Bear in mind that HIV is most contagious the month after you get infected, and is orders of magnitude Less so until Years later, when you begin to get sick with AIDS. The Hepatitis B trial of 1978 showed a prevalence of only three to six percent in those very high risk volunteers. By 1983?? It had ballooned to SIXTY percent. (The researchers had saved the blood slides, and tested them years later-when the Western Blot became available.)
People like me living in the Appalachian mountains see things like this makes us realize how lucky and fortunate we are also seeing people on fentanyl in these cities bent over backwards with their heads touching the ground it's like watching world war z starring Brad Pitt!.. and just think people call us "dumb" "hillbillies".. these are our mountains trash free and we live off the land, the mountain people respect mother nature that's why she takes care of us, and we take care of each other... NOTHING LIKE CITY PEOPLE!!...
what fairytale do you live in? I live in se ky and let me tell ya, sometimes the stereotype of the ignorant/lazy/etc hillbilly is true. I have never seen a state so full of trash all over the roads, they have trashed one of the most gorgeous parts of our nation. Then if thats not bad enough, they don't take care of their animals at all and out of sheer laziness. I have never seen so many dead dogs on the roads as I have here. Now you can hardly throw a rock around here without hittin a church, but clearly they aren't teachin them the very basics if they trash Gods planet and hurt/neglect Gods creatures. No the hard workin, self sufficient hillbilly died when welfare came out. Now they all game the system, the only difference between them and the inner city thug trash is the city trash is way more violent. These people here won't help family much less anyone else, true break down of the family unit and system, its sad.
For decades they were annexing/extending the city limits, now is the time to pull back. A good farmer knows which land to plant and which to lay fallow.
With all that space and few houses/taxpayers, the infrastructure: 1) water pipes, 2) sewer lines, 3) electricity poles, and 4) street pavement costs, it's a financial loss to the City. If you tore down the wrecks and turned it back into farmland, at least that could be profitable. But where do you put the "youts" & single moms with kids from multiple sperm donors)?
Not just Democrats! Do you not keep track of who votes what on key bills in Congress the last several years? Most Republicans in Congress do not vote to help we the people--they too vote on behalf of their corporate donors. Along with Rand Paul, there are only about 8 Republican Senators who vote for us. It is a uni-party with a few exceptions.
It's a lot of work maintaining a house, not bad if you keep up on it though.. and as like a garden, you have to work at keeping it, otherwise anything and everything will take over and grow in that soil. So it is with our hearts too.
I grew up in SW Detroit back in the 50’s and 60’s and it was a wonderful city. My neighborhood was very diverse and very safe. I went to Cass Tech High in the inner city and graduated in 1968 majoring in music. I had a fabulous education unlike anywhere else in the country! We never had any trouble with crime or drugs at that time and the city was booming. I left to go to college on the East Coast after high school and the last time I went back to Detroit was in 2000. The city had changed so drastically and I haven’t been back there since. It is so sad to see the decline of a once great place to live…breaks my heart!
Many of the homes in these neighborhoods were lost in the wake of the 2007-2008 financial collapse under repub slug, deer in headlights G Dubs Bush. And at last check, G Dubs ain't 'sleepy joe'. Dutch, Bush 1, G Dubs, and Adderall Donny all repubs and all shit the bed and left their stinking mess for Clinton, Obama, Biden to clean up.
I can just imagine the once this was a quiet suburb full of families, little boys riding their bikes delivering newspapers, girls skipping rope in yards, neighbors talking, people mowing their yards. At this point the American dream is dead.
Alot of homes you show are Craftsman style houses. They were sold in the Sears catalog as a kit. Thats some old growth wood from old trees that they used in the frames of the houses. They were marketed to newly married couples . How sad to see them like this!! I picture chidren riding bikes down the sidewalk or trick or treating . Girls leaving to go to the prom.. Christmas dinners...how sad how sad.
Again, short term gain getting China to open up and moving whole industries to Asia, but it caused a shift in skilled labor out of America and the decline of the skilled blue collar working middle class. The Archie Bunker's of the US got the shaft. So, Nixon and the US capitalists didn't do American any favors. We just gutted American core industries and a working and productive and tax paying middle class that is now mostly dead or living in a reduced capacity. And those that did get rich, well those 3% or so of the richest families have the "family office" of professional money managers that keep their billions safe and tax deferred for at least two generations. So they have it all locked up in L.P."s and various illiquid tax efficient structures and these folks really don't spend enough to drive the economy forward. What we have left is a growing city wasteland in many parts of America and pockets of wealth with gated communities and private security. Sort of like the New Feudalism.
Probably the most insighful and truthful comment I've seen on any clip from this channel. All the other comments I see come from racist trailer park-dwelling whites from red states blaming democrats and blacks for everything wrong in their own miserable failure of a life.
While I agree with a lot of your statement. You left outeducating the people of these city’s. I don’t know what we could do with the people who don’t want to be educated or trained in a skill. It’s a gloomy outlook for the young people coming out of these places
En Argentina dicen lo mismo respecto de los Kirchner, pero los liberales y conservadores tambien tuvieron muchos años para cambiar las cosas y nunca hacen nada.Solo la excusa de una herencia recibida, endeudarse y ajustar.
I think you're just about right. There will be some exceptions, but the US already looks like a third world country in a lot areas. Its only going to get worse.
This is actually the cleaned up version of Detroit, you should have seen it in the late 80s early 90s it was like a battlefield from a 3rd world country. Crack cocaine, crime, and murderers we’re all running rampant not to mention the housefires every night it was like a total war zone.
Happening in NY, CA, PA, Chicago, Michigan and others at record speed thanks to our politicians putting everything before our homeland. Their greed and criminal corruption is sickening
Detroit has been in decline for decades, with very little chance of recovery! And to think the splendor this city had back 70 -80 years ago! I blame mostly one element for it's decline!
This started in the 1980s . Michigan was almost strictly an auto building state. The auto companies were failing and shutting down to prove their power and make the government bail them out. Which shut down everything worse than the pandemic ever did. And longer.
Actually Duggan has torn down a lot of houses and is still working on it. I will never ever be a democrat again but as democrats go Duggan is pretty decent and people like him, Detroit is coming back
This is a true fact. I live in Michigan and I have seen parts of Detroit that look like this. My husband and I worked for a man doing house inspections to make sure there were no vagrants living in abandoned homes. The devastation is overwhelming. It was really scary to go into some neighborhoods that look like this. In one area, we went down a street and there was a house that burned by arson and someone used a spray can of paint to paint on the door, "Any information on who murdered these people, call.....". We stopped at a house and I got out to inspect the backyard, and 2 rotties came out from the garage. I was scared 💩less!!! I threw my arms up and yelled 'What are you looking at?'. They ran off scared!!! That's when we quit that job. It wasn't worth losing our lives doing a job that put us in danger. This is really sad.
Industry is the foundation that Communities are built up around, in alot of instances, what was once rural farmland, a factory is erected and this leads to housing along with small service businesses and providers of resources to build and feed that community. Once built up, the foundation should not and can not be pulled or removed and because the industry has been pulled out from under the Community it then is unstable and collapses soon afterwards. Your politicians call it policies of sustainability development but it's far from the reality the climate change and sustainable development policies is nothing more than a lie leading to the destabilization, economic collapse of communities with unsustainable effects for future existence on the once thriving Community!!!
100 or so years ago this was all farms, then they built the plants and developed the fields for workers homes. The plants and jobs are now gone and so soon will these homes. Back into empty fields. Good news the Packard plant is getting more taken down,not sure if they will get it done by the end of 24 but that is what the mayor said.
@@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComebackDepending on the level of Investment Detroit can make such a huge change in the next 25 Years . We'll see. Potential is there
This is beyond depressing. But Detroit has so much potential. With the right political leadership, both locally and state, and investments of big companies. Detroit could eventually turn around.
Here is how we change this: stop giving money to people who not working. Next,stop giving money to those who will not work. Never pay someone to sit and not work. This problem will self correct when we stop paying people who will not work.
It is not quite that simple. Without term limits and restricting campaign donations and major tax law reform and ceasing deficit spending, the U.S. is going down. All of the above could happen if everyone qualified to vote registered to vote and voted to eliminate all U.S. government incumbents this Nov. and voted for RFK Jr.. Then they would have to continue voting out incumbents every election (effectively a one term limit).
It is so sad to see these once beautiful homes and neighborhoods in shambles. I feel so bad for the residents who are taking care of their homes having to live next to these dangerous eye sores.
What’s sad is that there are casinos, sports venues and other thriving businesses in midtown. But the neighborhoods surrounding them are not benefitting. People drive in to work at those establishments then leave. No one that works there lives there.
These are the most devastated areas of a resilient city that also has many beautiful area. Yes, within the city limits. Detroit was once an industrial powerhouse that attracted many because of the jobs but the enviornment ofr a cultural shift. Detroit has few challengers for it's influence on contemporary music predating the Motown era.
A century ago Detroit schools were good. Ĥigh property taxes discourage redevelopment even if anyone wanted to. I lived in Ferndale 40 years ago. These neighborhoods looked poorly kept then, but could have been saved. Section 8 housing causes ruin.
You covered some ground . I seen my old neighborhood about 3/4 in You went by yacama and emery I grew up at emery and andover thats the area between 7 and 8 mile and john R and state fair st. I was born there 1957 and moved out in 1970 or close to.
"......her alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears. America, America, God shed His grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea." America the Beautiful
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country". There are certain demographics that believe they are owed and they sit around waiting for it to come to them. It's a failing prospect and yet, they still don't teach their own children to read or write because they believe it's the government's job to do that. It keeps getting worse for every generation because the generation before damned their future generations to a life of ignorance-induced cultural decay.
Not that bad honestly, one of the many saddest parts is all the beautiful historical homes that are ruined. I only say not that bad, because I live in the area and there’s worse unfortunately
It is sad. It's very sad. This is a true reflection of what black ran, black populated cities look like all across America. The sad part is that Detroit was once one of the wealthiest cities on the entire earth. How can blacks ever be trusted to handle living in a modern society without imploding everything they touch? Why do the rest of us continue to find this acceptable that this one demographic can single-handedly take one of the greatest cities on earth and turn it into an African 3rd world equivalent in only a matter of a few decades??
Most of the empty lots you see were where homes stood that were burned down 50-60 years ago. It's a no-man's land I wouldn't want to get caught with a flat tire in at 2AM!!
Wow! The opening sequence is W Robinwood! I’ve been following the degradation of this street for years. Looks like the brick ranch at 1:22 may still be occupied. Not much else is left.
These used to be nice neighborhoods. My folks grew up here. Then they moved out, and other groups moved in, and look what they allowed to happen. Racism my A**, they did it to themselves.
I was born in 1958 at St. John’s Hospital on the east side of Detroit Michigan. There is plenty of blame to go around. City government, the oil embargo of the 70s, the UAW probably had too much power that affected the big three in a negative way Ford Chrysler and General Motors were blindsided by the Japanese auto makers.
America's downfall started with Republican President Nixon opening trade with China back in the 70's, that's when the companies, which are mostly Republican owned and managed sent our jobs overseas. The loss of well paying jobs results in decay.
The American car makers were not blind sided by Honda and Toyota; they were not paying attention to the overall car/truck market. By the 80s, Honda Accords, Toyota Corollas and Toyota Tacomas were obviously grabbing market shares. Nissan cars and trucks also. American car makers let go of the small car/truck market and longevity/quality.
If you know where the Birwood wall is can you do a drive by, The wall form the 1930's still stands that segregated neighborhoods. It is also called 8 mile wall
@@Happypucks Very first thing that mayor did was to get ride of the police task force that went after gangs. The decline was inevitable from the very start.
@Danlovestrivium Few other factors to. It gets boring talking about it because most will tuck tail when being informed about these factors! Yea Young did the affirmative action thing and replaced many jobs with under qualified staff. But that was just a continuation of the first mayor really. Was gonna become derelict and disfunctional regardless. Yep quite a few more "What are ya F N stupid" factors
With all the homeless people in this country, you wonder why they don’t start programs to build small affordable housing in places like that and renovate the whole area.
YES!!! Shelters are filled to capacity and turn people away while large multi story buildings are left to crumble to the ground instead of being repurposed. I've wondered the exact same thing many times
Sad, but I don't think Detroit, with it's ever shrinking tax base, can afford to be responsible for thousand of homeless folks living within their border, who, even if you provided a home of some sort, also tend to tax city and state services via Medicaid, food stamps, etc.
Truly sad to see what used to be such a powerhouse of a city just rotting away. As a kid, I lived a short distance from there in Rochester. It used to be a quaint little town, but now it's a major city without the problems that exist in Detroit. I guess when the younger generation got tired of all the crime and troubles, they moved outward. Sure wish Detroit could be what it was 40 or more years ago. A city to be proud to call home. Now it's just a shell of it's former self stripped of her glory.
Yeah, Detroit was a place where unskilled people could come where jobs were numerous & an unskilled worker coulld make a pretty good living. The car companies used to recruit people from the southern states to move to Detroit to work. BUT, after some decades, foreign competition made the car companies make their operations more efficient so they brought in robots. Ford used to have a saying 'NOT INVENTED HERE'. If it was not invented & made by Ford they did not use that part on any pf their cars. But, eventually even Ford had to talk to suppliers who could make parts cheaper than the big factories. Eventually they all saw the benifit of building factories in other contries and sending those jobs away. Canada & Mexico at first but elsewhere too. So, anyway the jobs dried up and the city too dried up. Detroit today is hardly a shadow of its former self. But, REMEMBER- Its nothing personal. Its busine$$. !
Its disgusting to see what a certain political affiliation will do to a state or town isnt it? The birthplace of Motown, the auto industry capitol of the country!, and look at it after that political affiliation had their way with it
This is what happens when 1,300,000 people move out of a city. IMHO, the biggest factor prompting that move was the enactment of a 3% City of Detroit income tax, with the demise of the domestic auto industry being a close second. Drug crime, rotten public schools, liltle in the way of retail stores, all kicked in to create a downward spiral. As you can tell from the views of the homes still standing, there was a building boom from maybe 1940 to 1955. Some of the homes were well-built, while other were not built to last. Actually, vacant lots from demolished old houses is an improvement over how things were in 2010. It makes the lots cheaper to acquire. If you assume an average family size of 4, then 1.3M less people means 325,000 houses go vacant and fall apart after a decade or so of no maintenance. Detroit is encircled by a goodly number of spectacular suburbs with rolling terrain, forests, streams, lakes, and spacious new homes Why in the world would anybody have any reason to move back into the City of Detroit other than poverty restricting them to old, cheap, run down homes? It took three generations to slide into this level of devastation, and it will take at least that long to return the entire city to anything near what it was in 1960
@@mattbastubee5255 The City of Detroit sprawls across 139 square miles. I used to work downtown, and commuted to downtwn via my car mainly along the I-75 freeway from the northern suburbs. But when it snowed, the freeways were parking lots, I I could make better time on surface roads where you could see neighborhoods like this in what was called "the lower east side". But my job took me into other neighborhoods on the west side that looked the same. These are pretty much all former thriving middle-calls homes. When I was very young back around 1956 I live in a neighborhood that back then, had a lot of immaculately maintained all brick bungalows with garages in the back yard. The City had planted elm trees in front of each home down in between he sidewalk and the street. They grew to be qute tall, forming a canopy over the side streets. The houses weren't large like they build them today, maybe 1250 sq. ft. counting the second floor bunagalow room. They also had basements. It was pure middle class, but nice back then. There were several neighborhoods with mansions for professionals or industrialists, with Palmer Woods being the nicest. I delivered mail one summer as a summer substitute carrier while I was in college in 1970, and I'd do the Palmer Woods route every now and then. It's west of Woodward Ave. between Six and Seven Mile Rds. I suspect it is still very nice, but it has been decades since I've been back there. One major problem, IMHO, was a City of Detroit Ordinance that required all sellers to bring these old WW II era homes up to code before the closing date. Building codes change over time and are generally more demanding in later years. Empty nesters looking to sell would get the required inpection by the City, with resulted in a report demandng a new roof, new furnace and air ducts, new wiring and outlets, replacement of plumbing pipes, and the cost of the repairs would exceed the fmv of the house, and the senior citizens on fixed incomes had no way to pay for them. So, they would fix nothing, move to the suburbs, and rent their old homes without ever putting any money into maintenace or repairs. They fell apar and turned into vacant wrecks, The ordiance was intended to preserve the homes, but had just the opposite effect. It took forever for the City to amend it to allow buyers to close the deal if they signed as Affidavit promising to make all the repairs, but by then it was too late. I once hired a black girl, smart as a whip and full of all sorts of energy. She had envisioned herself as being in the forefront of a new wave of urban pioneers who would resettle Detroit. She bought a stunning old mansion in Highland Park, a city that is located entirely within and surrounded by the City of Detroit. The moving truck arrived with all of her furniture and other personal property. She went to work at her new job after dropping her kid (she was a single mom) off at a day care, and came home to find that the home had been ransacked and most of her personal property was gone. She got a large check from her property insurance company and went shopping to replace what was stolen. After doing so, she went to work and came home to find everything gone again. She filed again under her insurance, and they sent her a nice check along with a cancellation notice, She got a phone call from a thug who did not identify himself, but said he had her laptop and wanted her code to get into it, when she laughed at him and said "no way!", he said if she didn't, he'd kill her toddler son. She packed up a couple of suitcases and the insurance check, moved herself and her son into an apartment in Howell, Mi, about 50 miles west of Detroit proper, and filed for bankruptcy to get rid of the home and her mortgage obligation. She knocked on my door and asked if I was hiring, which, by chance, I was, and that's how I learned that story of trouble and woe. Idealism doesn't always work. .
People who just arbitrarily blame the opposite political party to which they happen to be affiliated with simply do not care about what went wrong or what the solutions might be. It's nothing but lazy thinking. Pathetic really!
Not only what's wrong with people, but what's wrong with the city government? I guess no one cares about the state of Michigan. Sad and pathetic. Who owns the properties. If you live there, then do something; clean it up, report crimes, get to know at least one neighbor, there's no excuse for it. Why do I say it? Because the area I lived in in Milwaukee was the same, and we all tried doing something about it. Don't complain if you're not going to try and help fix the situation.
Downtown Detroit is becoming a tourist destination city. It features the best River walk and public square in the nation and is also the cleanest. The NFL draft is coming and will showcase it.
@@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComebackyes, the NFL draft is coming. So, if you put lipstick and perfume on a pig,for 3 days, it will make everything better, magically. And the area that they will have the draft in is already been fixed up, so it looks nice. Have the draft on the streets in this video.
@@Joe-d7m6k Every city has its rough areas, Detroit is not special in that regard. You have been told what to think by the media and won't change your perception in your lifetime you sheep
And to think our government is more than happy to send billions to other countries. I would rather our tax dollars stay in house and rebuild our country. Detroit is just one example, there are so many cities and towns in the same state of decline. My admiration goes out to those of you who make the best of it and refuse to give up!
oh the communist democrats LOVE THIS....this is what they want all over the country....total destruction....they want people to move into cities in one big dorm, project style apts....that way they can monitor you more closely...and control you it was all in the green new deal documents go read it.....
@@brandonbell5357 I watch videos made by small businesses, who cut overgrown yards for free. They make money from You Tube. Local governments like to post messages threatening legal action, if grass isn't cut. Two or three foot high grass still doesn't get cut by local governments. When grass is cut, the houses are usually in just as bad shape as these Detroit houses. Detroit isn't the only city with an abandon house problem
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Detroit is the result of 60 straight years of Democrats. You don't want this for your city.
One of the things that stands out to me is the brickwork on some of the houses. I'm sure there is damage inside, but the shells look stable. I'd imagine one deterrent to gentrification would be that the tax backlog might be more expensive than the house itself. I noticed one well-kept house in between four dilapidated ruins. I am always impressed by the people living there who seem to try so hard to keep things up. Great job, CharlieBo313!
Property Taxes and the Everyone Pollutes Act are the main reasons old structures aren't saved. My 100 year-old house can't be sold without being gutted due to lead based paint under five coats of latex, and the real plaster under gypsum drywall that COULD have asbestos (or horse hair) filler in it. Who lets their kids chew on walls????
This is just sad.... You can almost visualize the splendor of these houses back in the 1940's.... Just poor, dilapidated shells of nothingness now. I live 30 miles west of Detroit in Plymouth. Ashamed of my own state. 😢
This is what happens when White people leave an area. There is nothing remaining to maintain a modern city when the people that remain are incapable of living up to modern societal requirements.
Go check out the city sometime it’s actually awesome lots of history
So many of our cities in Michigan look like this, we’ve had nothing but rip off artists for governor, and state officials.
Niles and Benton Harbor are just as bad.
Michigan still has a lot to offer,it's not all bad,
Wow ! The opening shot with the bare trees, derelict houses and siren blaring out is epic.. literally post apocalyptic
Like the opening scene of a new RoboCop movie!
Dystopian is the word.
@spaceflight1019 Well, it was based in Detroit.
@@brianwilson6403 You're the only person who got that!
@@brianwilson6403 I loved your Beach Boy music.
All these dying cities have something in common…
they all got enriched. 🌈
High percentage of smoke detector people
Yeah, they all once had a thriving industrial base that got outsourced to other countries.
@@afridgetoofar1818not other countries but rather other non union companies in other states and yes the little remaining market share the big 3 has (GM went from 60% in the 1960’s to barely 15% now) they have moved some to Mexico
Banana Republic economies. Decades of attacks and degradation to labor unions. Outsourcing of jobs to other countries while the politicians or people did nothing to stop it. Same with Buffalo. Same with northern Ohio.
Only thing more disgusting than what's happened to Detroit is what's happening to Detroit.
I live an hour away from Detroit. I only go to downtown Detroit, in the daytime. This confirms the continuing of that policy.
My wife and I were born and raised in Detroit when it was one of the finest cities in the Midwest. Last year we did a similar tour of our old neighborhoods. Same scene. Most of the major Midwest cities had the same fate. Once the Civil rights activists took over, the cities went down hill. Sad.
U got that right George. Demf controled cities are 💩 holes.
Yes you are so correct, I’m born and raised in Cleveland Ohio, exactly the same way. Burned down beautiful old mansions it was disgusting and white flight left that city as the 15th worse place to live in America!!
@@dianesutton6620 White folks don't want to live next to black nonsense.
In the 1930s, Detroit was the fastest growing city in the western hemisphere. When I was a kid back in the 1960s, I remember it as being so important to our nation. That's were all the cars were made. Some Hollywood films premiered in the Motor City. It's sad that Detroit is only a shell of what it had been.
Simply terrible to see what has happened to a once-great city. Even worse to know how many other once-great cities are in the same situation.
Fantastic opening scene with the sirens. Eerie. No equivalence to that devastation here in Australia, yet. Effing sad. Love your work.
@@AlexanderWaylon Detroit turned into a dump soon as all the whites left lol.. we were the only ones actually maintaining the city, cutting grass, building etc.. the basketball people just destroy .
@@AlexanderWayloncapitalism 👍🏻
@@AlexanderWaylon And the other option was.....................
EXPLAIN TO ME SOMETHING.. My relatives , grandparents, great aunts and uncles lived in the exact same type of older home neighborhoods in Cleveland many years ago. Many didnt speak english yet, they didnt have money, worked as laborers to begin with but thru hard work managed to live in these older homes and the neighborhoods were kept nice. I have pictures of very nice older neighborhoods that they lived in for years. After years of saving money, they moved further out from the city. When they moved the cities became predominantly black neighborhoods and now today they look like this. WHY ? My relatives didnt have Any more finances and only by their grit and determination to have something nice - or live somewhere nice - they made it that way where they lived. I have the pictures to prove it! And NO welfare. None of them took it! It infuriates me when I hear blacks say whites "have no culture"! Everyone has a culture and I will take mine anyday .
Well...there DID used to be Union Sinecure jobs. Those were Gone by the Eighties. By the time You moved out, the housing was becoming Old, and more expensive to maintain. Detroit Blacks (most of whom fled Persecution in The South) also found it, to some extent...here in the North. They were only permitted to live in the overcrowded "Black Bottom" neighborhood, East of Downtown, and "Paradise Valley" (misnomer-although there were jazz clubs and thriving businesses) immediately to the north of there. Those two Hoods were destroyed to build a Freeway, and to expand a medical center. Housing for the well-off (Lafayette Park) and the Not-so-well-off (Public housing for the former residents) was built there.
There was also a small African American Enclave on the Near West Side. The area between Linwood and the Lodge Freeway (which includes the Notorious 12th Street-now "Rosa Parks Blvd") became Black after World War Two, when the Jewish residents fled to the Suburbs. The 1967 Riot began in that area. There were abuses by the then-White Police Department, plus the Young Men were peeved that, at the time, they couldn't get Draft deferments, and ended up being sent to Vietnam. White Boys in College DID get excused from the Draft.
In Cleveland, the Black area was originally Central-then Hough. Housing conditions were Poor. The neighborhood Cleveland Clinic is located in also changed early on.
All of humanity has culture, absolutely. that is just divisive narrative and it's popular today for people who enjoy being a victim and an excuse to hate.
I love Charlie’s thumbnail titles. No BS, no sugarcoating, he says it how it is when describing the monstrosity that is American urban spaces
Facts, Cause he ain't like other UA-camrs out there, That go the click balt route, Just for Subscribers and Viewers.
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You get it raw and real from him. No "sugar coating" the rough reality. No BS "narrative." I appreciate that.
Except he spelled devastation wrong
Democrat run urban spaces I might add
It even appears creepy in daylight! A single pedestrian walking resembles a target. I left Detroit in 88 and never returned. This is the Detroit that media won't show.
I left in 1986.
Because media played a part in the destruction of the whole country?
This is a direct reflection of the civil rights movement.
Would make a good setting for a zombie or an apocalypse movie
And finding zombie extras wouldn't be that hard!
Perfect for a Charlton Heston flick.
It would be too dangerous for the film crew and actors, I imagine..
@@dive2drive314well a few transformers movies was filmed in Detroit batman the dark night was filmed in Detroit only weak people fear Detroit it's worst in Cali tbh gang banging can't wear a certain color or you will die can't go down the right street or you will die if you wanna survive Detroit just mind your business but y'all people can't seem to do that🤷
@@BrandinBoyd36 Lol That LA is long gone, homie. Most of those old hoods have been gentrified.
LA, Portland, San Franscico and Seattle may be like that someday if they don't elect better politicians soon!
Yes, not Democrats. Democrats caused Detroit. Democrats perpetuate Detroit.
I believe they are getting close now.
Politicians solve almost nothing these days they bow to large corporations
SF won't, there's still value there even if the city is in a doom loop. detroit doesn't have any particular value that i'm aware, e.g. coast lines, natural resources, transportation hub, etc.. granted, i didn't look it up, but what's attractive in detroit?
Not about politicians it’s about blacks destroying neighborhoods, they don’t own it so burn it down. I’m from Cleveland and saw the 196; riots and how they burned down Millionaires Row! Absolutely disgusting, white flight came and moved to the suburbs, them came HUD and you had to rent to them. Not one thing has changed in Cleveland in 60 years or in any other large city. Sad 😔
Imagine if the hood was about building instead of destroying. Fixing up all that dilapidated bs, and turning it into something nice. Some people have no pride in the places they call home.
Cradle of civilization: 🙄
In only 50,000 years they gave us elephant dung huts, the pointy stick, and the practice of shitting and pissing in your own drinking water supply
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People moved in across from us. When the children got out of the truck,they dropped paper plates and water bottles. The children stepped over them on the way to the house. The papers are still there today. They trashed their whole house and yard. No kidding. About 12 dogs feral cats. Rats. Township says there's nothing they can do .
@@edwardzarnowski5558 These situations have more to do with character and mentality than they do with money. But people have been brainwashed into thinking that it's money, and we all need to be taxed more so they can have some (after government steals the majority of it, but we can't talk about that). The simple fact is that people with the type of character and mentality that dumps trash in the yard will never have money. Even if they won the lottery they'd go right back to poverty.
@@borisjankovici662 You are absolutely correct
You clearly don't know about the incredible boom in urban agriculture all around Detroit. It's not an exaggeration that only those remain in the city who can't afford to leave. With most of the population gone businesses have gone down and as a result there's scarcity of essentials like food in the sparse and poor neighborhoods of Detroit.
The inhabitants have seen this and the relatively cheap land value as an opportunity to turn some of this derelict landscape into small scale farms and gardens which supply the local community with healthy organic food. It's an opportunity born out of unfortunate circumstances but from the rubbles of this ruin of a city has emerged an exemplary specimen of modern agriculture that's sustainable both environmentally and socially.
It's not like those houses would be in impeccable condition if it wasn't for the people left there. Those houses are abandoned so no one's taking care of them. Not so there's no crime, not to say there isn't a lot of crime but in Detroit more than perhaps anywhere based on what I've seen the hood very much is about creation. The rise of urban agriculture in Detroit appears as both non profit organisations giving out food for free to help the impoverished and succesful businesses who are managing to make profit. It reminds me of the saying "life finds a way" though the incredible things happening in the wrecks of Detroit are not to be taken for granted. Real efforts have been made by the very people living there to revitalise some of the neighborhoods of Detroit. Though of course this alone isn't enough to fill the hole left by the fall of the auto industry.
I'm Finnish and I've not had the pleasure of visiting the city but I've spent a lot of time researching this incredible grassroots action happening in Detroit. It's an inspiring example of community and diligence. I suggest you look into it too, maybe learn a thing or two about your fellow Americans.
Most of these streets used to good solid middle class neighborhoods. The jobs left, then the folks that could, moved to the outlying suburbs, leaving behind the poor & unemployed. The suburbs have maintained the prosperity that Detroit once enjoyed.
A succession of corrupt politicians gutted what was left.
I left Detroit & the state, in the mid '70's, and will never go back.
I lived four blocks from Detroit for 66 years. As Blacks moved in to the nicer areas the Whites moved out to the suburbs. Now Blacks have moved to the suburbs because they can't take it anymore. When Blacks move into an area, city etc, crime moves in and eventually neighborhood homes fall apart because most of the people will not maintain them. You see this in all of our major urban cities. People need to step up.
Notice how there’s no mention of how the banks redlined those areas once they turned black and how the federal government funded home loans only to white families in the suburbs. Redlining keeps investment from going into those areas. So, people can’t get a loan to fix up their house. Redlining has long been the cause of the expansion of the ghetto. Even the federal government admitted that. So, it’s crazy that people to this day will ignore the policies that made it this way. They blame race, which is what those people who put it in place want you to think.
That’s called redlining. That’s what happens when blacks move into an area. It forces those areas to decline.!That keeps people from getting home loans to fix up their house. This has happened across America. Even the federal government admitted it. Just like how the federal government only funded home loans for white families in the suburbs.
That’s called redlining. That’s what happens when blacks move into an area. That keeps people from getting home loans to fix up their house. This has happened across America. Even the federal government admitted it. Just like how the federal government only funded home loans for white families in the suburbs. Detroit was gonna decline anyway since it’s a single economy city…just like the rest of the rust belt. Corruption just made it worse.
That’s called redlining. That’s what happens when minorities move into an area. That keeps them from getting home loans to fix up their house. This has happened across America. Even the federal government admitted it. Just like how the federal government only funded home loans for white families in the suburbs.
That’s called redlining. That’s what happens when blacks move into an area. That keeps people from getting home loans to fix up their house. This has happened across America. Just like how the federal government only funded home loans for white families in the suburbs.
Even the trees look sad 😢
😂😂😂
This was taken in the winter
They are
To be fair, it's during a sad-looking time of year.
@@ronbown3836 nigga where the snow?
Proud neighborhoods 70 years ago...back when workers in america could support a family on a single income. Now lookin' like Haiti.
Haiti was ruined by Overpopulation. They were enslaved by Colonists. But, Also, American Presidents of Both political parties put guys like Papa and Baby Doc in Power over there. Anyone but a Communist! Cuba isn't Perfect, either, but it's Valhalla next to Haiti.
...and, do you KNOW how the AIDS Epidemic Really began in America?? Look up "Hemo-Caribbean Plasma Center." They were open in Port-au-Prince, from 1971-early 1972. Some of the donors had picked up the virus, as guest workers in Africa. What REALLY spread HIV, However, was that they had 7000 donors, giving plasma at Fifty Plasmapharesis machines, every two weeks...and, they Rarely changed out the needles or tubing!! They were paid the equivalent of three American dollars/day. The American connection?? A NYC Stockbroker was involved, and most of that plasma went into the veins of Hemophiliacs in this Country. Hemophiliacs are ALL Male, and a small percentage of them would have been Gay.
And, SURE..having reciprocal anal intercourse at Orgies spread the Virus, along with Addicts not having access to clean needles/syringes. There needed to be a Sentinel Event, However, to make it So Much WORSE in America than in other First World Nations. Bear in mind that HIV is most contagious the month after you get infected, and is orders of magnitude Less so until Years later, when you begin to get sick with AIDS. The Hepatitis B trial of 1978 showed a prevalence of only three to six percent in those very high risk volunteers. By 1983?? It had ballooned to SIXTY percent. (The researchers had saved the blood slides, and tested them years later-when the Western Blot became available.)
This is what happens when Scholars and upstanding citizens take over neighborhoods..
Looks like a war zone
It was. democrats have been at war with America
Looks like end-stage Capitalism. Detroit was at one time the richest city in the US when the auto industry was booming.
It looks like decades of democratic party leadership. Same picture in Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, .. etc.@@afridgetoofar1818
@afridgetoofar1818
Detroit's devastation is way deeper than blaming capitalists.
@@afridgetoofar1818 Yeah cause. no ghettos in commie land. LOL brah, communism is what happened here. unions in particular.
People like me living in the Appalachian mountains see things like this makes us realize how lucky and fortunate we are also seeing people on fentanyl in these cities bent over backwards with their heads touching the ground it's like watching world war z starring Brad Pitt!.. and just think people call us "dumb" "hillbillies".. these are our mountains trash free and we live off the land, the mountain people respect mother nature that's why she takes care of us, and we take care of each other... NOTHING LIKE CITY PEOPLE!!...
what fairytale do you live in? I live in se ky and let me tell ya, sometimes the stereotype of the ignorant/lazy/etc hillbilly is true. I have never seen a state so full of trash all over the roads, they have trashed one of the most gorgeous parts of our nation. Then if thats not bad enough, they don't take care of their animals at all and out of sheer laziness. I have never seen so many dead dogs on the roads as I have here. Now you can hardly throw a rock around here without hittin a church, but clearly they aren't teachin them the very basics if they trash Gods planet and hurt/neglect Gods creatures. No the hard workin, self sufficient hillbilly died when welfare came out. Now they all game the system, the only difference between them and the inner city thug trash is the city trash is way more violent. These people here won't help family much less anyone else, true break down of the family unit and system, its sad.
For decades they were annexing/extending the city limits, now is the time to pull back.
A good farmer knows which land to plant and which to lay fallow.
detroiturbanism.blogspot.com/2021/07/detroit-borders-v-annexations-of-1916.html
With all that space and few houses/taxpayers, the infrastructure: 1) water pipes, 2) sewer lines, 3) electricity poles, and 4) street pavement costs, it's a financial loss to the City. If you tore down the wrecks and turned it back into farmland, at least that could be profitable. But where do you put the "youts" & single moms with kids from multiple sperm donors)?
Used to be one of the richest cities in America. DemocRATS and blacks have ruined it. Let’s be real
Damn right
Republican outsourcing ruined it. Let's be real. All the factories and jobs have left.
@@johndee9719Bill Clinton’s NAFTA
Not a Republican
@@johndee9719 And why did they go? What happened that made it suddenly way too expensive to keep the already paid-for factory keep printing money?
Not just Democrats! Do you not keep track of who votes what on key bills in Congress the last several years? Most Republicans in Congress do not vote to help we the people--they too vote on behalf of their corporate donors. Along with Rand Paul, there are only about 8 Republican Senators who vote for us. It is a uni-party with a few exceptions.
It's a lot of work maintaining a house, not bad if you keep up on it though.. and as like a garden, you have to work at keeping it, otherwise anything and everything will take over and grow in that soil. So it is with our hearts too.
I grew up in SW Detroit back in the 50’s and 60’s and it was a wonderful city. My neighborhood was very diverse and very safe.
I went to Cass Tech High in the inner city and graduated in 1968 majoring in music. I had a fabulous education unlike anywhere else in the country!
We never had any trouble with crime or drugs at that time and the city was booming. I left to go to college on the East Coast after high school and the last time I went back to Detroit was in 2000. The city had changed so drastically and I haven’t been back there since. It is so sad to see the decline of a once great place to live…breaks my heart!
This is devastation after a infestation! Sad
Sleepy joe has to help THE ukraine
Many of the homes in these neighborhoods were lost in the wake of the 2007-2008 financial collapse under repub slug, deer in headlights G Dubs Bush. And at last check, G Dubs ain't 'sleepy joe'. Dutch, Bush 1, G Dubs, and Adderall Donny all repubs and all shit the bed and left their stinking mess for Clinton, Obama, Biden to clean up.
I can just imagine the once this was a quiet suburb full of families, little boys riding their bikes delivering newspapers, girls skipping rope in yards, neighbors talking, people mowing their yards. At this point the American dream is dead.
Alot of homes you show are Craftsman style houses. They were sold in the Sears catalog as a kit. Thats some old growth wood from old trees that they used in the frames of the houses. They were marketed to newly married couples . How sad to see them like this!! I picture chidren riding bikes down the sidewalk or trick or treating . Girls leaving to go to the prom.. Christmas dinners...how sad how sad.
I think a Minority of housing was of that Type. Those Big, Old ones are Victorians, or Mansions built for Well-Off Professionals.
Again, short term gain getting China to open up and moving whole industries to Asia, but it caused a shift in skilled labor out of America and the decline of the skilled blue collar working middle class. The Archie Bunker's of the US got the shaft.
So, Nixon and the US capitalists didn't do American any favors. We just gutted American core industries and a working and productive and tax paying middle class that is now mostly dead or living in a reduced capacity.
And those that did get rich, well those 3% or so of the richest families have the "family office" of professional money managers that keep their billions safe and tax deferred for at least two generations. So they have it all locked up in L.P."s and various illiquid tax efficient structures and these folks really don't spend enough to drive the economy forward.
What we have left is a growing city wasteland in many parts of America and pockets of wealth with gated communities and private security. Sort of like the New Feudalism.
Probably the most insighful and truthful comment I've seen on any clip from this channel. All the other comments I see come from racist trailer park-dwelling whites from red states blaming democrats and blacks for everything wrong in their own miserable failure of a life.
Neither China nor Richard Nixon are in charge of Detroit. That is the job of the elected mayor.
While I agree with a lot of your statement.
You left outeducating the people of these city’s.
I don’t know what we could do with the people who don’t want to be educated or trained in a skill.
It’s a gloomy outlook for the young people coming out of these places
It takes two to tango. Every American politician has dropped the ball in the last 50 years.
Years of progressive democrat leadership brings this where ever they gain power
What would republicans do differently?
@@torcik republicans have nothing to do with this, democrats and their voters did this, it's very simple
@@torcikRepublicans would make it business friendly and get people working
@@torcikThey wouldn’t let 10 million illegals in that cost hundreds of billions Einstein
En Argentina dicen lo mismo respecto de los Kirchner, pero los liberales y conservadores tambien tuvieron muchos años para cambiar las cosas y nunca hacen nada.Solo la excusa de una herencia recibida, endeudarse y ajustar.
What every US city will look like in 25 years.
Or less
Might be a good thing.
They will all be centralized
I think you're just about right. There will be some exceptions, but the US already looks like a third world country in a lot areas. Its only going to get worse.
@@templar1060 natural response from a Templar. Be careful what you wish for.
The US empire got outsourced
This is actually the cleaned up version of Detroit, you should have seen it in the late 80s early 90s it was like a battlefield from a 3rd world country. Crack cocaine, crime, and murderers we’re all running rampant not to mention the housefires every night it was like a total war zone.
Can you imagine doing Fire and EMS in these areas ! God Bless them and the hospitals
Truth
True - used to be worse . All the empty lots is where Mayor Mike Dugan and the city land bank have torn down a ton.
Happening in NY, CA, PA, Chicago, Michigan and others at record speed thanks to our politicians putting everything before our homeland. Their greed and criminal corruption is sickening
Detroit has been in decline for decades, with very little chance of recovery! And to think the splendor this city had back 70 -80 years ago! I blame mostly one element for it's decline!
It was gonna decline anyway. It’s stupid to have a city’s economy based on one industry. Detroit isn’t the only rust belt city that has declined.
And we're supposed to listen to them when they choose our next president?
PASS
Build Back Better doing its thing.
This started in the 1980s . Michigan was almost strictly an auto building state. The auto companies were failing and shutting down to prove their power and make the government bail them out. Which shut down everything worse than the pandemic ever did. And longer.
The whole of America if things are not changed soon..
Mike Duggan Mayor of Detroit, Michigan A member of the Democratic Party This is Why it looks like this Key Word is Democratic
So if a Republican were in charge, Detroit would be thriving. Yeah, ok
Actually Duggan has torn down a lot of houses and is still working on it. I will never ever be a democrat again but as democrats go Duggan is pretty decent and people like him, Detroit is coming back
Also Coleman Young and Kwame Kilpatrick.
This been going on for decades beloved dating back to the 1980's.
Detroit looked like this way before Mike Duggan was mayor. He has done more than most (ahem Kwame) mayors.
This is a true fact. I live in Michigan and I have seen parts of Detroit that look like this. My husband and I worked for a man doing house inspections to make sure there were no vagrants living in abandoned homes. The devastation is overwhelming. It was really scary to go into some neighborhoods that look like this. In one area, we went down a street and there was a house that burned by arson and someone used a spray can of paint to paint on the door, "Any information on who murdered these people, call.....". We stopped at a house and I got out to inspect the backyard, and 2 rotties came out from the garage. I was scared 💩less!!! I threw my arms up and yelled 'What are you looking at?'. They ran off scared!!! That's when we quit that job. It wasn't worth losing our lives doing a job that put us in danger. This is really sad.
It's crazy because I literally grew up in them neighborhoods and it's nothing left..no life exists no more😞😞
There's lots of life don't be sorry about how the blacks fucked it all up
Sad to see such decay of beautiful homes!
Crazy how nature just takes back over when we are all finished w gods land. 🙏 this area used to be nice homes and memory lane for alot of folks
Industry is the foundation that Communities are built up around, in alot of instances, what was once rural farmland, a factory is erected and this leads to housing along with small service businesses and providers of resources to build and feed that community. Once built up, the foundation should not and can not be pulled or removed and because the industry has been pulled out from under the Community it then is unstable and collapses soon afterwards. Your politicians call it policies of sustainability development but it's far from the reality the climate change and sustainable development policies is nothing more than a lie leading to the destabilization, economic collapse of communities with unsustainable effects for future existence on the once thriving Community!!!
100 or so years ago this was all farms, then they built the plants and developed the fields for workers homes. The plants and jobs are now gone and so soon will these homes. Back into empty fields. Good news the Packard plant is getting more taken down,not sure if they will get it done by the end of 24 but that is what the mayor said.
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It's happening. You can fit the entire city of San Francisco in Detroit's vacant land in 2024!
@@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComebackDepending on the level of Investment Detroit can make such a huge change in the next 25 Years . We'll see. Potential is there
@@BLACKSTA361 not if democrats stay in charge
Over 3k homes and vacant lots for sale. I wonder what those vacant lots will be worth in 20-25 years.
This is beyond depressing. But Detroit has so much potential. With the right political leadership, both locally and state, and investments of big companies. Detroit could eventually turn around.
Would big companies do it? They want cheap labor. They want non union labor.
Here is how we change this: stop giving money to people who not working. Next,stop giving money to those who will not work. Never pay someone to sit and not work. This problem will self correct when we stop paying people who will not work.
This is much worse than that. This isn’t due to work ethic. This is due to economic policies.
Amen . Get a job , not stealing or selling drugs.
It is not quite that simple. Without term limits and restricting campaign donations and major tax law reform and ceasing deficit spending, the U.S. is going down. All of the above could happen if everyone qualified to vote registered to vote and voted to eliminate all U.S. government incumbents this Nov. and voted for RFK Jr.. Then they would have to continue voting out incumbents every election (effectively a one term limit).
It is so sad to see these once beautiful homes and neighborhoods in shambles. I feel so bad for the residents who are taking care of their homes having to live next to these dangerous eye sores.
There was a TV series titled "After Man"...welcome to the real life version...
* After People
What’s sad is that there are casinos, sports venues and other thriving businesses in midtown. But the neighborhoods surrounding them are not benefitting. People drive in to work at those establishments then leave. No one that works there lives there.
These are the most devastated areas of a resilient city that also has many beautiful area. Yes, within the city limits. Detroit was once an industrial powerhouse that attracted many because of the jobs but the enviornment ofr a cultural shift. Detroit has few challengers for it's influence on contemporary music predating the Motown era.
A century ago Detroit schools were good. Ĥigh property taxes discourage redevelopment even if anyone wanted to.
I lived in Ferndale 40 years ago. These neighborhoods looked poorly kept then, but could have been saved. Section 8 housing causes ruin.
I grew up in Gary Indiana. All the warning signs were there but to bring them up would cause grief to you.
You covered some ground . I seen my old neighborhood about 3/4 in You went by yacama and emery I grew up at emery and andover thats the area between 7 and 8 mile and john R and state fair st. I was born there 1957 and moved out in 1970 or close to.
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"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country".
There are certain demographics that believe they are owed and they sit around waiting for it to come to them. It's a failing prospect and yet, they still don't teach their own children to read or write because they believe it's the government's job to do that. It keeps getting worse for every generation because the generation before damned their future generations to a life of ignorance-induced cultural decay.
well yea, it looks bad now but remember, "diversity is our strength" ..............................................................
Crazy how I just live across the river from this.
Is this caused by tornado?
@@Urbanindia745 "Is this caused by tornado?"
lol yes a tornado. The Detroit Tornado.
Darn! It's like a parallel universe or something!
do you know a guy named Chris who lives in a van down by the river?
no. unfortunately this is the Detroit we all know. @@Urbanindia745
The road Charlie was driving on would scare me to death. 0:00
Looks like it hasn’t been touched since it was built. In that condition either pave it or just close it.
America is usually 4-5yrs ahead of the UK, is this what we have to look forward to as economy collapses and interest rates and prices keep rising.
Detroit blew up in 1968. Never recovered.
Not that bad honestly, one of the many saddest parts is all the beautiful historical homes that are ruined. I only say not that bad, because I live in the area and there’s worse unfortunately
It is sad. It's very sad. This is a true reflection of what black ran, black populated cities look like all across America. The sad part is that Detroit was once one of the wealthiest cities on the entire earth. How can blacks ever be trusted to handle living in a modern society without imploding everything they touch? Why do the rest of us continue to find this acceptable that this one demographic can single-handedly take one of the greatest cities on earth and turn it into an African 3rd world equivalent in only a matter of a few decades??
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Most of the empty lots you see were where homes stood that were burned down 50-60 years ago. It's a no-man's land I wouldn't want to get caught with a flat tire in at 2AM!!
Or 2.pm
Burned down on devils night?
I bet alot of those old homes were beautiful back in the day. Sad situation.
Wow! The opening sequence is W Robinwood! I’ve been following the degradation of this street for years. Looks like the brick ranch at 1:22 may still be occupied. Not much else is left.
I lived in these houses in 2012. Now I live just outside Detroit. Hasn't changed much. The things they do inside those homes will haunt you.
NAFTA is a contributing factor to this devastation.
Yep and city income tax by first dem mayor. People dont know...na fta was signed in 1998 and went into effect in 2008
all very dumb for very few
Absolutely...
Block Busting did this.
@palepride7530 Pale Pride a shilling bot to make whites that fought in the Civil War look bad!
These used to be nice neighborhoods. My folks grew up here. Then they moved out, and other groups moved in, and look what they allowed to happen. Racism my A**, they did it to themselves.
I was born in 1958 at St. John’s Hospital on the east side of Detroit Michigan. There is plenty of blame to go around. City government, the oil embargo of the 70s, the UAW probably had too much power that affected the big three in a negative way Ford Chrysler and General Motors were blindsided by the Japanese auto makers.
The school systems failed the people
America's downfall started with Republican President Nixon opening trade with China back in the 70's, that's when the companies, which are mostly Republican owned and managed sent our jobs overseas. The loss of well paying jobs results in decay.
The American car makers were not blind sided by Honda and Toyota; they were not paying attention to the overall car/truck market. By the 80s, Honda Accords, Toyota Corollas and Toyota Tacomas were obviously grabbing market shares. Nissan cars and trucks also. American car makers let go of the small car/truck market and longevity/quality.
This is mind blowing ! If someone told me this was bangladesh or south africa i might believe it...but your telling me THIS is the USA ???😮
Possibly the most beautiful city in the U.S. at one time and it's been reduced to rubble.
Sounds like Gaza
@@brandonbell5357 and which group of people is bombing Gaza and carrying out military operations?
Thank the democrats!🤫🤔
@@AZVIDS yup thank the fuckin whole house senate ECT
Sooner or later Someone has to speak the Truth Out Loud to why this occurs and make sure it never happens again. This is just downright embarrassing !
If you know where the Birwood wall is can you do a drive by, The wall form the 1930's still stands that segregated neighborhoods. It is also called 8 mile wall
first dem mayor caused what you see, installed city income tax which still plagues that which I moved from 15 year ago 😢
@@Happypucks Very first thing that mayor did was to get ride of the police task force that went after gangs. The decline was inevitable from the very start.
@Danlovestrivium Yep Stress was a good unit.Got the criminals off the street.Coleman.said it was racist.
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@Danlovestrivium Few other factors to. It gets boring talking about it because most will tuck tail when being informed about these factors! Yea Young did the affirmative action thing and replaced many jobs with under qualified staff. But that was just a continuation of the first mayor really. Was gonna become derelict and disfunctional regardless. Yep quite a few more "What are ya F N stupid" factors
How sad to the people living in this condition. Those homes must've been so gorgeous at one time. They have amazing potential for restoration
With all the homeless people in this country, you wonder why they don’t start programs to build small affordable housing in places like that and renovate the whole area.
YES!!! Shelters are filled to capacity and turn people away while large multi story buildings are left to crumble to the ground instead of being repurposed. I've wondered the exact same thing many times
Sad, but I don't think Detroit, with it's ever shrinking tax base, can afford to be responsible for thousand of homeless folks living within their border, who, even if you provided a home of some sort, also tend to tax city and state services via Medicaid, food stamps, etc.
U not welcomed in da hood... life threatening indeed
You think they would take care of more free stuff? Look at Harlem!🤯🫣😱
sure,,,,you wanna pay for it ???? or do you want me to ??? get real
Truly sad to see what used to be such a powerhouse of a city just rotting away. As a kid, I lived a short distance from there in Rochester. It used to be a quaint little town, but now it's a major city without the problems that exist in Detroit. I guess when the younger generation got tired of all the crime and troubles, they moved outward. Sure wish Detroit could be what it was 40 or more years ago. A city to be proud to call home. Now it's just a shell of it's former self stripped of her glory.
Yeah, Detroit was a place where unskilled people could come where jobs were numerous & an unskilled worker coulld make a pretty good living. The car companies used to recruit people from the southern states to move to Detroit to work. BUT, after some decades, foreign competition made the car companies make their operations more efficient so they brought in robots. Ford used to have a saying 'NOT INVENTED HERE'. If it was not invented & made by Ford they did not use that part on any pf their cars. But, eventually even Ford had to talk to suppliers who could make parts cheaper than the big factories. Eventually they all saw the benifit of building factories in other contries and sending those jobs away. Canada & Mexico at first but elsewhere too. So, anyway the jobs dried up and the city too dried up. Detroit today is hardly a shadow of its former self. But, REMEMBER-
Its nothing personal. Its busine$$.
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Don't forget, Unions had alot to do with this. Democrat Unions that is.
Its disgusting to see what a certain political affiliation will do to a state or town isnt it? The birthplace of Motown, the auto industry capitol of the country!, and look at it after that political affiliation had their way with it
Wish you would focus on an occasional street sign so I'd know what area of town you are in. 9:06
Where I lived, it was house, field, field…. Field, field, house, abandoned house, field, field.
-Danny Brown- (Fields)
He wasn’t lying, damn
Give Biden another 4 years and our whole country will look like this!
@@Stainlessdude not according to your thumbs up tally. So desperate it stinks.
Damn Right!
Give Biden or Trump another 4 years and our whole country will look like this!
This is what decades of voting Democrat looks like.
@@Stainlessdudecry some more kid!
This is what happens when 1,300,000 people move out of a city. IMHO, the biggest factor prompting that move was the enactment of a 3% City of Detroit income tax, with the demise of the domestic auto industry being a close second. Drug crime, rotten public schools, liltle in the way of retail stores, all kicked in to create a downward spiral. As you can tell from the views of the homes still standing, there was a building boom from maybe 1940 to 1955. Some of the homes were well-built, while other were not built to last. Actually, vacant lots from demolished old houses is an improvement over how things were in 2010. It makes the lots cheaper to acquire. If you assume an average family size of 4, then 1.3M less people means 325,000 houses go vacant and fall apart after a decade or so of no maintenance.
Detroit is encircled by a goodly number of spectacular suburbs with rolling terrain, forests, streams, lakes, and spacious new homes Why in the world would anybody have any reason to move back into the City of Detroit other than poverty restricting them to old, cheap, run down homes? It took three generations to slide into this level of devastation, and it will take at least that long to return the entire city to anything near what it was in 1960
What part of Detroit is this ? Were these middle class homes ?
@@mattbastubee5255 The City of Detroit sprawls across 139 square miles. I used to work downtown, and commuted to downtwn via my car mainly along the I-75 freeway from the northern suburbs. But when it snowed, the freeways were parking lots, I I could make better time on surface roads where you could see neighborhoods like this in what was called "the lower east side". But my job took me into other neighborhoods on the west side that looked the same. These are pretty much all former thriving middle-calls homes. When I was very young back around 1956 I live in a neighborhood that back then, had a lot of immaculately maintained all brick bungalows with garages in the back yard. The City had planted elm trees in front of each home down in between he sidewalk and the street. They grew to be qute tall, forming a canopy over the side streets. The houses weren't large like they build them today, maybe 1250 sq. ft. counting the second floor bunagalow room. They also had basements. It was pure middle class, but nice back then.
There were several neighborhoods with mansions for professionals or industrialists, with Palmer Woods being the nicest. I delivered mail one summer as a summer substitute carrier while I was in college in 1970, and I'd do the Palmer Woods route every now and then. It's west of Woodward Ave. between Six and Seven Mile Rds. I suspect it is still very nice, but it has been decades since I've been back there.
One major problem, IMHO, was a City of Detroit Ordinance that required all sellers to bring these old WW II era homes up to code before the closing date. Building codes change over time and are generally more demanding in later years. Empty nesters looking to sell would get the required inpection by the City, with resulted in a report demandng a new roof, new furnace and air ducts, new wiring and outlets, replacement of plumbing pipes, and the cost of the repairs would exceed the fmv of the house, and the senior citizens on fixed incomes had no way to pay for them. So, they would fix nothing, move to the suburbs, and rent their old homes without ever putting any money into maintenace or repairs. They fell apar and turned into vacant wrecks, The ordiance was intended to preserve the homes, but had just the opposite effect. It took forever for the City to amend it to allow buyers to close the deal if they signed as Affidavit promising to make all the repairs, but by then it was too late.
I once hired a black girl, smart as a whip and full of all sorts of energy. She had envisioned herself as being in the forefront of a new wave of urban pioneers who would resettle Detroit. She bought a stunning old mansion in Highland Park, a city that is located entirely within and surrounded by the City of Detroit. The moving truck arrived with all of her furniture and other personal property. She went to work at her new job after dropping her kid (she was a single mom) off at a day care, and came home to find that the home had been ransacked and most of her personal property was gone. She got a large check from her property insurance company and went shopping to replace what was stolen. After doing so, she went to work and came home to find everything gone again. She filed again under her insurance, and they sent her a nice check along with a cancellation notice, She got a phone call from a thug who did not identify himself, but said he had her laptop and wanted her code to get into it, when she laughed at him and said "no way!", he said if she didn't, he'd kill her toddler son. She packed up a couple of suitcases and the insurance check, moved herself and her son into an apartment in Howell, Mi, about 50 miles west of Detroit proper, and filed for bankruptcy to get rid of the home and her mortgage obligation. She knocked on my door and asked if I was hiring, which, by chance, I was, and that's how I learned that story of trouble and woe. Idealism doesn't always work.
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The new America when things are give to people they don’t work for it it’s not appreciated like when you put sweat and blood into it hard labor
Given economy to another country, signed in 1998 and started in 2008.
Another democrat ran dreamland full of rainbows and butterflies
People who just arbitrarily blame the opposite political party to which they happen to be affiliated with simply do not care about what went wrong or what the solutions might be.
It's nothing but lazy thinking. Pathetic really!
Coleman a young. Legacy
50 years of Dem control
Detroit need more migrants to occupy these homes
Not only what's wrong with people, but what's wrong with the city government? I guess no one cares about the state of Michigan. Sad and pathetic. Who owns the properties. If you live there, then do something; clean it up, report crimes, get to know at least one neighbor, there's no excuse for it. Why do I say it? Because the area I lived in in Milwaukee was the same, and we all tried doing something about it. Don't complain if you're not going to try and help fix the situation.
Looks like lots of areas for urban farming.
A lot of work. Are younger generations doing that work? Where i live people don`t cook teir own meals. Too much work for them.
Democrat control, naacp , and unions, bingo , work anywhere anytime!!! Sad victims of their own success!
Born and raised 60s 70s What a shame these days 😢 Detroit will never be what is was ☹️
Results of poor leadership. Facts
Progressivism in action.
Outsourcing of industry in action
@@afridgetoofar1818This is a direct result of left winged ideologies.
The black people there do nothing to try and fix it up of course .
the sound of that police siren 🚓😖
And Kamala Harris is Promoting Detroit on her Campaign Adds ? SMH 🤦♂️
is it a safe place to go for vacation?
Downtown Detroit is becoming a tourist destination city. It features the best River walk and public square in the nation and is also the cleanest. The NFL draft is coming and will showcase it.
Flint, mi was the most dangerous city 15 years ago. Don't know about nowadays tho
@@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComebackyes, the NFL draft is coming. So, if you put lipstick and perfume on a pig,for 3 days, it will make everything better, magically. And the area that they will have the draft in is already been fixed up, so it looks nice. Have the draft on the streets in this video.
@@Joe-d7m6k Every city has its rough areas, Detroit is not special in that regard. You have been told what to think by the media and won't change your perception in your lifetime you sheep
O hell yeah meet All kinds of things and junkies
This is what voting Democrat for decades looks like.
And to think our government is more than happy to send billions to other countries. I would rather our tax dollars stay in house and rebuild our country. Detroit is just one example, there are so many cities and towns in the same state of decline. My admiration goes out to those of you who make the best of it and refuse to give up!
oh the communist democrats LOVE THIS....this is what they want all over the country....total destruction....they want people to move into cities in one big dorm, project style apts....that way they can monitor you more closely...and control you it was all in the green new deal documents go read it.....
I was addicted to a youtube channel where this man would come and evict squatters it was ridiculous
Who mows the grass on these properties?
Some politician's relative that "won" a contract for an absurd amount of money only to keep the money and not cut the grass.
No one it's a contest who has the longest grass gets a free rock just saying
@@brandonbell5357 I watch videos made by small businesses, who cut overgrown yards for free. They make money from You Tube. Local governments like to post messages threatening legal action, if grass isn't cut. Two or three foot high grass still doesn't get cut by local governments. When grass is cut, the houses are usually in just as bad shape as these Detroit houses. Detroit isn't the only city with an abandon house problem