What grand lovely old ladies. Their architecture is historical. Abandoned, their insides are gutted by copper thieves and drug addicts. It hurts my heart to see the tragedy. Great documentation. You are one of the few who gets it and your videos speak for themselves. So refreshing that you aren't a shrill narcissist who makes videos about themselves, no matter what the subject. Keep up the great work. Subscribed
Being a fan of midwest Victorian and Craftsman architecture, a part of me dies watching this. All of those homes were lived in by very hard working people at one time. I highly recommend listening to Mama by Genesis while watching. Goes along well with it..
Detroit has some of the most beautiful houses and mansions. The houses built today are junk compared to these old houses. Per square foot, these old houses would cost 10 times more to build than the garbage they build today. Actually, these houses were built with old growth timber that is no longer available.
New homes are far superior. Not all of them obviously. New homes have 6 inch walls and spray foam insulation. It costs down huge on heating and cooling costs. The new homes I have built are built way better than these old relics. These homes do a have a lot of charm to them. They are not as energy efficient.
I know, I heard that on the radio in the video, too. Ironic isn't it? DOW Jones hits a record high while Detroit and so many other cities around the country suffer miserably. I don't think it's just the Demicrats that caused all this to happen. It was everyone in America who decided to get greedy and take everything away from all of us. The real unemployment rate is somewhere closer to 45-50% of the country that is out of work. They use a job index which only accounts for the highest white collar jobs and leaves everything else out. You have to be super educated and supper greedy to work in the USA anymore. That leave most of us at the bottom either unemployed or working jobs that don't make enough to pay the bills. I have been around a great number of years and this kind of world had never occurred to me when I was young and just beginning to think about what I wanted to do with my life. I see Trump as one of the cruelest and most evil people who could have been elected President. He has no interest in this country, he has interest in himself and how terribly selfish and foolish he can be. That's a tragedy. We need good leadership in this country to get us out of this garbage dump of a situation and refocus back on the American people no matter who you are, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, European, Christian, Jew, Bootist, it really doesn't matter. In truth, we took this country away from the native Americans and now the government doesn't even care about those who's roots go deeper in this land than any of us. Money, greed, ignorance, and selfishness are what got us where we are now.
I can understand an abandoned and empty home but WHY destroy them? Break all the windows and tear them apart? Its like if something is nice it must be taken apart piece by piece and destroyed. People go out of they way and destruct. That mindset is hard for me to understand.
Well people who had a bad past grow up angry. They are influenced by the ones around them who also had a bad past. They don't know how to deal with their anger and no one is willing to help them deal with it so they take anger out on what's around them. It's just common human nature and shouldn't be blamed on the color of someone's skin rather on what the community has come to due to people not wanting to help them.
Nature destroying something takes decades and intervention like broken windows, people destroying something takes months or a few years. If those houses were completely untouched, even after a decade all you'd likely see is some peeling paint, if that.
That level of craftsmanship still exists. Although, it is only used in multi-million dollar homes. Middle class will never again be able to afford homes like that.
lulsmokes I think Hiroshima is in better shape they decided to rebuild and take care of things and this neighborhood decided to drink 40 oz smoke crack and not work that's the difference
Born and raised in Detroit. This breaks my heart. These houses were so well made, beautiful woodwork, lead glass windows etc. Just destroyed! No going back!
My great grandparents had a home similar to some of these homes on Detroits East Side in a beautiful tree lined neighborhood. It was a big two story tudor style house with beautiful woodwork and leaded glass windows and a huge front porch. I remember my grandma taking me up to Harper to Henry's drug store for sodas and candy and catching the bus to Hudsons downtown to see the Christmas display on their top floor, walking up to Chandler Park in the summer to go swimming in the pool and ice skating in the winter. When my great grandparents passed away my grandmother pretty much gave the house away to one of those places that was buying up all the houses and renting them out and collecting money off them until the renters just ran them down till they were no longer inhabitable. The house is gone now, torn down quite a few years ago..so sad!
The corruption starts with the Board of Education and the Mayor and his cronies. All the $$ goes straight to those "special" peoples pockets. Not to mention the corrupt Unions played apart in the flight of the jobs. These peeps are greedy bastards. evil. Do a little history research on Detroit and you will see why it looks like it does today... Don't just blame the victims...
Miss Primrose Interesting information thank you. I bet it is very scary to walk down those streets and I bet there is not light in the night. God bless and protect everybody living in that crazy place.
After a sting of boarded up and torn down houses, a house stood alone, well kept up outside, well maintained lawn and shrubs, that's what I call "pride".
Wow! When I think of slums I think of old areas with cheap, crappy ass houses but some of those are big beautiful homes. What's hard to believe is that when people couldn't afford to stay any longer they just had to walk away from homes like that. The nice White 80's Oldsmobile at 0:45 was the best kept thing in this video.
They didn't walk away because they couldn't afford the homes. As told to me by a co-worker who was born and raised in a home like this, the whites were driven out during the riots of the 1960s. They packed what they could and ran ahead of an advancing mob of blacks and there was no reason to return. Home values dropped to almost nothing overnight. Nothing to come home to. Houses were ransacked, many were burned. The ones that were spared were immediately occupied by squatters and the original owners lost everything. Happened in South Africa as well.
@@Cynthia-fs4vi thats not really true. Yes the riots didn't help, and it deffinately encouraged thousands to leave the city, however white flight was already underway, people moving out of cities for the new suburban life, as this happened all across America. Also Detroit jobs were on the way out to foreign countries, the car industry was starting to decrease in Detroit fast, and continued to decrease for decades. Decades later even suburbs around Detroit started to decrease in population as jobs continue to decrease in and around Detroit. The population of Deteoit in 1950 was 1.8 million. 1960 it was 1.6 million. By 1970 it was 1.5 million. This shows that the riots did not actually lead to everyone in Detroit to abandon the city. Rather it was a constant evacuation of the city for decades. People wanting to move out, and no one wanting to move in. The population in 1980 was 1.2 million. In 1990 the population was 1 million. In 2000 the population was 951,270. In 2010 the population was 713, 777 and by 2019 the population was 670,031.
@Thomas Barrish St.Louis, Pittsburgh & Buffalo are a few other cities to name that were in similar situations. The industrial work force peaked in the 50s, but was already decreasing in jobs availability by the 60s to other foreign countries & other areas of the country. Some other cities managed to recover and find new types of jobs to replace the industrial ones, but ones as mentioned that were more heavily based on 1 particular industry just collapsed. Suburban growth was a double edged sword that crippled the inner cities. Suburban growth starting to take off in the 50s, new construction outside of the city. Larger land, quiet life style, and with the car culture also massive growth at the exact same time, you now could get from your peaceful suburban house to your inner city job almost as quickly as it use to take you from your city home to work. If the jobs never left, the cities would of managed to survive much better. It didnt help many black people came from the south to the north looking for more job opportunities which were already starting to decrease in inner cities for even white people. Racist had some impact, but it was 1 of many factors.
@Thomas Barrish NewYork City went through a large decline 60s-1993. Lost over 1 million people. But with originally 7.8 million in the first place, it still had 6.8 million. Eventually recovered, in 2020 it reached 8.4 million. It recovered, it was a different situation in many ways though. But black riots or black migration are not a single cause to create massive decline for white people, jobs availability is probably the number 1 factor to keep people in a city in the first place. NYC had massive banking industry to keep it going.
Decades of central planning and over spending, starting with Cavanaugh, was what really signed Detroit's death warrant. Then riots and government graft and sleaze through the 70s, 80s, and 90s just tightened the hand on the neck.
one of my best friends was a detroit native, who moved to socal in 1988. he refused to even visit his hometown because it was too heartbreaking to see the collapse. this was in the 90's, i can only imagine what he thinks of the place now....
When your cars are made in Japan, South Korea, Germany, or Mexico, what did you suppose would happen to Detroit? A lot of these neighborhoods were at one time good places to live for the working class industrial workers. But when the jobs disappeared, the socio-economic structure collapsed, along with the family structure. But some people at the top got rich by making these changes, they live elsewhere.
Foreign competition came in the 1960's as well as corrupt politicians that started the downfall of this once mighty auto industrialized city, not to mention the 1967 riots dealt this city a black eye on top of it.
I'm thinking it was the 1986 Camaro that almost wasn't built for the reason that the labor union claimed it was "too difficult to build". I reckon union thuggery had a hand in the demise of the once-powerful Detroit industrial scene.
What's that have to do with treating your home like garbage and forgetting how to cut a lawn? Sounds like your argument means they have time in their hands.
@@drmartin5062 The people who had them built or moved in when brand new certainly kept the lawns mowed and etc. We know who they were. It isn't that way now. Someone else has moved in.
Note that the little corner stores are all gone-closed and boarded up-no doubt no one will run one, since you will be robbed . This is really the problem-crime is rampant in these areas, so no one will invest anything in these areas.
Roy Hollins Are You effing kidding me? I put a lot of time on this earth and seen it all..I’ve seen black communities go through beautiful neighborhoods like Locusts and strip everything and leave it to die! Never has there been a more racist group. Privilege? BLACK PPL WANT,EXPECT THE GOVERNMENT TO GIVE THEM EVERYTHING AND IF THEY DON’T THEY TAKE IT! BLM are demanding ONLY blacks get free housing,education,ect from ALL white Americans!And the worst part is they have no shame and will deny these traits until death.Its beyond pathetic..AND they run like pacts of animals.Giving a good argument for lower brain activity..Of course not all are this way but most.Or they have a sickening opinion like you.Too stupid to think for themselves.And MARK MY WORDS..If this this keeps up they won’t have to worry about hating whitey anymore bc ther will be a race war! And you might look around you and feel safe bc it being mostly black (pacts) But drive down those roads baby,look up those mountains bc they’ll be some mad ass,gun packing ppl that daughters were victimized and rapped ,robbed by a “pact” of black men like I was and you’ll know what being only 19% of the country feels like
I grew up in Detroit in the 50s'. Had many big beautiful houses. Everyone in my neighborhood (Jefferson & Concord) south of Belle Isle bridge got along. Was a great city then.My parents moved us to the surburbs when I was 15. I didn't want to go but of course had to. It breaks my heart to see what has become.
I think you're doing a good thing by showing this on YT. People need to see how bad it is and how desperately Detroit needs help. The fact that this not a third world country but right here in America should wake people up.
It is like that because the business left. Detroit was built by the auto industry. Most of that is completely gone now. You have lots of buildings but nobody to live in them... It has nothing to do with politics or color.
Paul bro the city is GONE. It will never in our lifetimes be what it once was. Its better to just to move on than to hope for something that will NEVER happen again. The city is DEAD.
Exactly. Its not a race issue tho. The automotive industry in Detroit is gone so there's no reason to live there. In the 1950's Detroit WAS the world center of the automotive industry. Thats gone.
Jason Bourne the irony of a white person saying this lmao these houses look like this because no one can afford to buy them, not because they were destroyed dumbass.
Not going to comment on skin color.People go where the money is at .The American auto industry left to avoid paying union wages+ the retirement and health benefit packages that the workers got.
Mikeel Kinzey I am white and yes I voted for Trump .I prefer not to get into an internet pissing match.I am sure the black folks moved in there after property prices dropped.If there were enough jobs there people still would be living there.
+zapfanzapfan. You think the people left for no reason?? They left due to something that's no less worse than a nuclear accident. If you disagree, then YOU live there.
Until I started watching these videos, I had no idea that Detroit, unlike Chicago and New York, had such extensive low density housing. In New York you see so many huge housing projects sometimes 10 or 20 floors high. Truly hard to believe what happened in Detroit going from about 1.9 million to under 700,000...
the down side of allowing us companies to us chinese slave labor is an end to the living wage in manufacturing centers like the mid west, south chi, south LA, rust belt.
Yes but the Germans went to work, cleared the streets of rubble. Salvaged anything usable to make shelters. Went to work at any job they could find even if it meant working for the Americans, French and British. They got back on their feet. Does anyone see the people that wrecked Detroit building anything?
@@johnoakes3106 By 1960 or so, West Berline was rebuilt, clean and prosperous. Thanks to its market economy. East Berlin was rebuilt with cheap ugly concrete buildings, or was not rebuilt at all until the 1990s. Thanks to Soviet communism. A related stark contrast pervades the Korean peninsula.
I can not stop watching these videos of Detroit. I keep thinking about how huge those houses were and how dreamy they must have been back when. It’s crazy to see it come to this. I might have to belt out a verse of Whitney Houston’s didn’t we almost have it all.😝😉😬😔😏
I don't understand why these houses are abandoned... windows broken...all overgrown... people are living in some... what made all the other people leave and why are the people there now not taking care of their homes ???
I was born and raised in Detroit, and it breaks my heart to see these homes decay. Truthfully, most of these homes are too large to maintain for the average individual. All across Michigan not just in Detroit larger homes are boarded up and left to rot. Why? The cost to restore these homes is staggering and the size is just not feasible for the average paycheck with a 30 hour week.
Gloria Hanes I want to move there the houses look so nice I live in Florida born and raised the houses are to much here I can live in Detroit and live happy in a big house. My income is from online.
Every city has issues, but Detroit has areas which are beautiful. I would plan a trip to Michigan and check out the area yourself. Michigan is very affordable and the winters are mild. I moved back from Arizona as I was homesick for my birth state. Arizona is now polluted, over populated and crowded, and way too expensive.
Mark Berger , it is scary, because liberalism created this problem. 2 English words that are scary Entitlement, and Victim. These 2 words caused the destruction of this once Great City!
Get out of here. It's called globalism. If automakers were still making most of their cars there, everything would be fine. You build a city around a couple major employers and then have those business's leave, this is what you're left with no matter democrats or republicans are in charge. Same thing with all the other rust belt areas where coal and steel employers have been replaced by imports and mechanization.
When you buy a new car and the CHECK ENGINE light comes on within a month of driving it off the lot you are not going to have repeat costumers for long. My dad took his 84 Chevrolet back to the dealer a dozen times trying to get that light to stay off and all they did was keep resetting the computer because they could not fix it. They even tried to fool him by removing the bulb from the dashboard. That was his last GM purchase.
Nothing to do with Democrats or Republicans. Nothing to do with the color of ones skin either. Detroit was thriving when the auto industry was huge there. As the industry slowed down and relocated to other parts of the country or failed the jobs dried up. You have a large thriving city that lost it's industry and you want to blame Democrats. Capitalism is a GOP/Republican thing. Capitalism failed in Detroit because they moved somewhere cheaper to build. Not rocket science but I guess you need to be smarter than a 4th grader to understand.
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An automobile monoculture based on now-obsolete manufacturing methods ceased to be able to suppport a large population. The auto industry steadily consolidated and it was consolidating long before those areas were abandoned. There is no reason for manufacturers to build in the frozen hell of the Rust Belt when energy costs are much less elsewhere and they can buy a greenfield site in a state with no winter and no old infrastructure requiring very, very expensive demolition so most of them don't. Cities exist for economic reasons. If they diversify their business base they survive. If they don't, there is no reason to be there. All those homes are old and most of them were old in 1960. The solution is managed shrinkage to make the city fit reality.
This is all about greed , sending jobs over seas so rich people can have more stuff and vacations. No good paying jobs this is what happens and then top it off with racism. The companies want more money forget about people trying to provide for their families.
It's interesting to see how the abandonment of one or two houses spreads through the neighborhood. It doesn't seem to matter how good the housing stock was to begin with; good stock, bad stock, they're all abandoned.
What's ironic is how you will see here and there a block of decently maintained houses that people are obviously living in, surrounded by 10 blocks of rotting, empty shells. I don't know how the people in the decent houses can stay in that neighbourhood. Not a place to send your kids trick or treating. on Halloween. And from the toys outside looks like there are some kids there.
I said the same thing in another comment upthread. South Africa is running out of water fast, with a majority black population. Imagine what that will be like for the whites who are stranded there. They'd better start trying to get out right now.
Walk up to anyone on the streets here and ask them if they know who their Mayor is. These politicians need to only be paid on their job results. Name any other job where the boss is told what to do by the employees. this is American politics & it needs to be fixed, Actually, I think it is too late. I'm 51 years old I thought about a life in politics when I was 15 / 16 years old, However, I then thought all of these people are going to be put in jail or overrun by angry mobs and I wanted no part of that. Little did I know
This is so terrible to see. All of these once beautiful and well kept up neighborhoods now decayed and in ruins. How could this happen to one of our great cities that when I lived there was the fifth largest in the country and was so proud of its accomplishments. I was born in Detroit and lived there until 1962. Never could I have imagined what would happen to the city I loved.
Richard Bouthot no no no Africans don't even act like that i worked with many of them as i do now and they come here to be prosperous other than getting educated.
Richard Bouthot no no no Africans don't even act like that i worked with many of them as i do now and they come here to be prosperous other than getting educated.
There isnt anywhere in England that has abandoned homes and destruction to this extent of Detroit, especially since they are often big, beautiful homes that have become ghettos, and the destruction is all over Detroit. But there is some rough looking, run down cities and towns in England. I've been to Birmingham many times, also a car auto industry city, there is lots of abandoned factories, abandoned shops, abandoned pubs and some abandoned homes & empty high rise concrete estates (government housing), you see it as you enter the city by trains, it's like a ring of depression surrounding the city centre. Liverpool has its shitty areas to, the Anfield neighbourhood around Liverpool FC had lots of abandoned homes, not sure if it has improved today or not as that was over 10 years ago since I last seen it, but they use to have rows of abandoned homes on some streets, with other streets having 1/3 or 1/2 the row houses being abandoned. Burnley ain't pretty looking either. I'm sure there is other cities & towns that arent pretty that I just havent seen.
I'm in southern Ontario and always wanted to see these houses in person. These houses built in the early 1910's- 1920's were built exactly when car manufacturing and Ford was taking off. Detroit was the same size or even bigger than Chicago. I think it was second after New York in population They are beautiful...and this dosnt even show some of the mini mansions of the time from the upper classes.
That is why so many homes and businesses are abandoned. 60% of the city's population dropped, and over a million who have lived and runned businesses there have move away leaving them all empty and to rot and fall apart.
This is terrible especially for the people still living there the value of their homes must be so low now they couldnt sell them if they wanted to. Are there any supermarkets still open with fresh food or just the convience stores?
Very few supermarkets exist north of the downtown core. Heck, you know it's bad when there isn't a Wal-Mart within Detroit's city limits. The nearest one is 12 miles outside of city limits.
I notice in these videos there's always a few home scattered about that are still lived in as people try to hang on, or, as you say, can't sell if they wanted to.
Shame, people once took pride in all of those homes. Now it looks like very few get cared for. It amazes me that land was at such a premium in the city that these houses were built right on top of each other. It is nice to see some open space. Home owners should be able to buy vacant lots next to them from the city for a reasonable price and use the area for a garden, pool, or other out door activates.
Although low-density residential developments are still declining in Detroit, many larger developments, such as historic high-rises, apartments, mansions and skyscrapers, are actually being restored.
In 1955 the dream looks like it just have been firmly entrenched, look at the public frontage what a glorious wide open place this had to be for everyone but riots and white flight put an end to that.
@@nateduggan3146 If you had not noticed the South only flipped Republican recently they had Democrats in control for over 100 years. That's why you had jim crow and the kkk and slavery. Keeping in mind that the First Republican President, Lincoln, freed the slaves the Democrats opposed that. The south also had no history of the large industry to lose, of any wealth to lose, as Detroit was rich and threw it all away.
Looks like Gary Indiana; West End Atlanta; Miami Florida; Philadelphia; Albuquerque NM. Several other cities too numerous to mention. Welcome to America.
It breaks my heart. So many beautiful brick homes with slate tile roofs, cut glass doors, maple, oak and teak woodwork, fine workmanship and well sited. They couldn't help that they are located in a sewer. On the lower east side, there were nice homes on canals, with docks and lake access. I was there in the winter, and watched 2 men towing a beautiful grandfather clock along the icy canal with a rope! Very sad.
79goldmaster1 oh yeah!!! that's what Detroit needs!!! it's so weird huge houses big neighborhoods but only about 8% population! even the squirrels said see yah!!
Detroit has so many beautiful old abandoned homes, and so many homeless people. It is a shame that someone couldn't be given the house before it deteriorates so badly. I really feel for the people who are still eying to maintain their house in a block of empty houses.
What a sad situation, it's enough to make one cry, All these once beautifull homes Thank you for allowing me to see this, your camera work is very good, youve captured scenes ive only heard about, I had no idea situations were this terrible.
Charlie... This is so heart breaking. I really loved those 2-story bungalo's with the huge frony decks. How I wish more didnt see them the way I do. So sad my friend. So very sad.
Well, that's outside of the Amsterdam, Utrecht and The Hague areas. Cause there it would be more like 1,5 million. And in Detroit, houses like that are just a pile of bricks declining in value as we speak. So sad...
Keep it up Charlie....These were top of the line homes. Nothing wrong with them. Look at the architecture. Heh you would love to hear what my grandparents would say now. They were the 1890s -1907 generation.
FOXBODY 351W I guess it makes one a racist when he points out that in 1950 the population of Detroit was 97 % white. The city thrived and crime was low. Now the city is 95% minority crime is out of control and business is non existent now.
Roy Hollins don't lie to your self. Whites had never walked on all fours and blacks was never building civilization any wheres. It's a proven fact that blacks been living ing like prehistrick people sinse ancient times when everyone around y all been building the world's greatest civilizations and technology the world has ever seen. Blacks didn't teach no body anything but everyone did it at least tryed to tea h blacks how to run and build a proper civilization but failed at it because blacks rather live prehistoric then live like modern man. Fact.
Ancient ones you might wanna take a few English classes before you post, your grammar is horrible... after that, take a history course or two as well because you CLEARLY have no clue as to what you're talking about. Those ancient pyramids in Egypt, you know, the ones that the white man can't figure out how they built them to this very day...!?... were they not built by blacks?? As a matter of fact there are plenty of African nations that are thriving today, but you wouldn't know that because you obviously live in a very small bubble with no books. The European has done nothing but steal and destroy no matter where he goes on the planet
I can recall a time when I was a child 🚸, my father used to drive down Elmhurst, then Tuxedo during the Christmas 🎄 Holiday Season and most of those dwellings, people lived in and had lighted Christmas 🎄 Decorations depicting Santa and his Reindeer, candles and lights of all different colors throughout the neighborhood! Now it's just a Barren Wasteland of Vacant, Fractured Memories of those of us who grew up here and remembers!!! Just look at our Broken World?!!?
There are many ghost towns in the west that were once great mining towns. Once the gold, silver, etc. panned out, the mines close and you then get a ghost town. Well, the gold mines in Detroit (the auto industry) got tired of being used as cash cows by the politicians and unions and closed and/or moved on. Now you have a ghost town.
MASH MASH that’s what happens when the community becomes black..There’s the proof..What else does anyone want.Im sure the racist blacks will get pissed bc they’re DELUSIONAL BUT THERE IT IS PROOF POSITIVE
When I was a kid we used to visit a museum called "the way we where" in a small town in england. Oh my what America was and has become! And the shit aint hit the fan yet!!!!!
@@thought-provokingvideos5464 Detroit's prosperity was based on factories related to the making of automobiles, factories built 1900-1929. When these plants reached their use-by date, they were abandoned and replaced by factories built elsewhere in the USA, or in northern Mexico, or in Japan & Korea. The reason was often the high wages negotiated by the UAW, and the fact that much of the USA is right to work country. In 1943, Detroit experienced a bad race riot. In 1967, it experienced the worse race riot in American history, which triggered a brutal exodus of Detroit's white residents. Everybody who could leave Detroit did so; hence Detroit's population today is about 1/3 of what it was in 1950. Detroit's white population shrank to about 60K. A majority of Detroit's population was made up of people on a monthly check from the government, or of people having neither jobs nor welfare. Lacking jobs and welfare, many Detroit residents turned to drugs and theft. Soon after the 1967 riot, Detroit became a crime infested hell. This led to a further population exodus. The number of abandoned houses and vacant lots soared. Many of Detroit's art deco skyscrapers have been abandoned since the 1980s. Normal economic life is not possible in a place like Detroit, where life and property are not secure. Detroit averages about 2 murders per day. Believe it or not, there are American cities that are even more violent than Detroit: St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans.
@@thought-provokingvideos5464 People were so desperate to flee Detroit's violence, drug addiction and property destruction, that they abandoned their homes and businesses. Abandoned real estate attracts vandals, arsonists, and copper-strippers. Soon houses fall apart and become completely unlivable. Blight spreads like a contagious disease.
I was born, raised, tormented, and tortured in the city of detroit. I got out years ago, but still it hurts to see the truth of detroit. I see it every day. Nothing has changed. The money remains downtown and in the bew center area, and the neighborhoods are once again left behind. Nothing has changed. Nothing will ever change.
Flying, Charlie has a video of him entering a couple of the houses... It was dangerous in that he could have fallen through the floors as they are often rotted away or the ceiling falls in on him... Then, there's the danger of running into what I term a "feral, stray, human" inside one of them... The houses are stripped of copper plumbing and electrical wires and full of trash... It's nothing worth seeing...
Man, to be a craftsman back then, taking pride in what you got done every day and to have your hard work end up like this. These houses have tons of character, probably served their occupants well and are now basically abandoned and are for shit. For shame Detroit
What grand lovely old ladies.
Their architecture is historical.
Abandoned, their insides are gutted by copper thieves and drug addicts.
It hurts my heart to see the tragedy.
Great documentation.
You are one of the few who gets it and your videos speak for
themselves.
So refreshing that you aren't a shrill narcissist who makes videos about themselves, no matter what the subject.
Keep up the great work.
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I can see that with copper thieves right now with copper prices at $4 a pound.
Being a fan of midwest Victorian and Craftsman architecture, a part of me dies watching this. All of those homes were lived in by very hard working people at one time. I highly recommend listening to Mama by Genesis while watching. Goes along well with it..
I was born on one of those streets in 69. You have no idea how beautiful some of these neighborhoods were. No idea.
Detroit has some of the most beautiful houses and mansions. The houses built today are junk compared to these old houses. Per square foot, these old houses would cost 10 times more to build than the garbage they build today. Actually, these houses were built with old growth timber that is no longer available.
They're constructed out of brick.
You right I live in a old house, the walls thick as ever.. new drywall like cotton candy walls.
Yeah I live in a 50s ranch... it’s wonky in some places, but sturdy as fuck! The wood that was used is basically petrified now.
The housing crisis has made it even worse
New homes are far superior. Not all of them obviously. New homes have 6 inch walls and spray foam insulation. It costs down huge on heating and cooling costs. The new homes I have built are built way better than these old relics. These homes do a have a lot of charm to them. They are not as energy efficient.
As a Detroiter born and raised this hurts my heart this is not the city I grew up in my memories are of when these homes were still lived in and loved
the radio talking about the record highs hit by the DOW while you showcased these homes... STUNNING!
I thought that was quite ironic as well. ha.
Just think Six TRILLION $$ dollars wasted in the middle east.
This is really heartbreaking , so very sad. It's a shame major corporations left I believe this is the result.
I know, I heard that on the radio in the video, too. Ironic isn't it? DOW Jones hits a record high while Detroit and so many other cities around the country suffer miserably. I don't think it's just the Demicrats that caused all this to happen. It was everyone in America who decided to get greedy and take everything away from all of us. The real unemployment rate is somewhere closer to 45-50% of the country that is out of work. They use a job index which only accounts for the highest white collar jobs and leaves everything else out. You have to be super educated and supper greedy to work in the USA anymore. That leave most of us at the bottom either unemployed or working jobs that don't make enough to pay the bills. I have been around a great number of years and this kind of world had never occurred to me when I was young and just beginning to think about what I wanted to do with my life. I see Trump as one of the cruelest and most evil people who could have been elected President. He has no interest in this country, he has interest in himself and how terribly selfish and foolish he can be. That's a tragedy. We need good leadership in this country to get us out of this garbage dump of a situation and refocus back on the American people no matter who you are, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, European, Christian, Jew, Bootist, it really doesn't matter. In truth, we took this country away from the native Americans and now the government doesn't even care about those who's roots go deeper in this land than any of us. Money, greed, ignorance, and selfishness are what got us where we are now.
Amen, Forrest Creek... You nailed it!
I can understand an abandoned and empty home but WHY destroy them? Break all the windows and tear them apart? Its like if something is nice it must be taken apart piece by piece and destroyed. People go out of they way and destruct. That mindset is hard for me to understand.
Well people who had a bad past grow up angry. They are influenced by the ones around them who also had a bad past. They don't know how to deal with their anger and no one is willing to help them deal with it so they take anger out on what's around them. It's just common human nature and shouldn't be blamed on the color of someone's skin rather on what the community has come to due to people not wanting to help them.
usually kids break out windows throwing rocks... and the insides get tore up for scrap metals
Animals don't even do that to other dens or nests.
Nature destroying something takes decades and intervention like broken windows, people destroying something takes months or a few years. If those houses were completely untouched, even after a decade all you'd likely see is some peeling paint, if that.
Sixgun Symphony so your saying pussuns a cula bes like mold and rot on steroids?? Your right...
And you will never see the craftsmanship that went into building these homes ever again.
That level of craftsmanship still exists. Although, it is only used in multi-million dollar homes. Middle class will never again be able to afford homes like that.
Norman D the homes in Detroit actually sell for pretty low you’d be surprised
You can still see the former beauty in the ruins, pay attention
Gorgeous homes in their day...heartbreaking..:(
White Flight took the work away and corruption top down made it worse. The Wealthy fucked the people over , wake up assholes.
No responsibility ever. Its always some other colour/ some other type of people, rich people, etc.
white flight = racist
so not having access to white people is racist? we cannot live together period.
michael preston Assholes, yeah right.
lulsmokes I think Hiroshima is in better shape they decided to rebuild and take care of things and this neighborhood decided to drink 40 oz smoke crack and not work that's the difference
Born and raised in Detroit. This breaks my heart. These houses were so well made, beautiful woodwork, lead glass windows etc. Just destroyed! No going back!
My great grandparents had a home similar to some of these homes on Detroits East Side in a beautiful tree lined neighborhood. It was a big two story tudor style house with beautiful woodwork and leaded glass windows and a huge front porch. I remember my grandma taking me up to Harper to Henry's drug store for sodas and candy and catching the bus to Hudsons downtown to see the Christmas display on their top floor, walking up to Chandler Park in the summer to go swimming in the pool and ice skating in the winter. When my great grandparents passed away my grandmother pretty much gave the house away to one of those places that was buying up all the houses and renting them out and collecting money off them until the renters just ran them down till they were no longer inhabitable. The house is gone now, torn down quite a few years ago..so sad!
The amount of empty homes and destruction of them is mind blowing & sad
FLINT ain't any better Hon.
and this is why u americans cant get it right. your all fighting with each other. get a life and job
The corruption starts with the Board of Education and the Mayor and his cronies. All the $$ goes straight to those "special" peoples pockets. Not to mention the corrupt Unions played apart in the flight of the jobs. These peeps are greedy bastards. evil. Do a little history research on Detroit and you will see why it looks like it does today... Don't just blame the victims...
Miss Primrose Interesting information thank you. I bet it is very scary to walk down those streets and I bet there is not light in the night. God bless and protect everybody living in that crazy place.
this is what happens when white people vacate and leave black people unsupervised
awesome video, thanks for your hard work, those places must have been beautiful back years ago, cheers
Moo Cow hard work, driving around 😅
After a sting of boarded up and torn down houses, a house stood alone, well kept up outside, well maintained lawn and shrubs, that's what I call "pride".
I am 52. When I was a kid Detroit was still booming. All this has happened in my lifetime, and it is hard to comprehend.
Wow! When I think of slums I think of old areas with cheap, crappy ass houses but some of those are big beautiful homes. What's hard to believe is that when people couldn't afford to stay any longer they just had to walk away from homes like that. The nice White 80's Oldsmobile at 0:45 was the best kept thing in this video.
They didn't walk away because they couldn't afford the homes. As told to me by a co-worker who was born and raised in a home like this, the whites were driven out during the riots of the 1960s. They packed what they could and ran ahead of an advancing mob of blacks and there was no reason to return.
Home values dropped to almost nothing overnight. Nothing to come home to. Houses were ransacked, many were burned. The ones that were spared were immediately occupied by squatters and the original owners lost everything. Happened in South Africa as well.
@@Cynthia-fs4vi thats not really true. Yes the riots didn't help, and it deffinately encouraged thousands to leave the city, however white flight was already underway, people moving out of cities for the new suburban life, as this happened all across America. Also Detroit jobs were on the way out to foreign countries, the car industry was starting to decrease in Detroit fast, and continued to decrease for decades. Decades later even suburbs around Detroit started to decrease in population as jobs continue to decrease in and around Detroit. The population of Deteoit in 1950 was 1.8 million. 1960 it was 1.6 million. By 1970 it was 1.5 million. This shows that the riots did not actually lead to everyone in Detroit to abandon the city. Rather it was a constant evacuation of the city for decades. People wanting to move out, and no one wanting to move in. The population in 1980 was 1.2 million. In 1990 the population was 1 million. In 2000 the population was 951,270. In 2010 the population was 713, 777 and by 2019 the population was 670,031.
@Thomas Barrish St.Louis, Pittsburgh & Buffalo are a few other cities to name that were in similar situations. The industrial work force peaked in the 50s, but was already decreasing in jobs availability by the 60s to other foreign countries & other areas of the country. Some other cities managed to recover and find new types of jobs to replace the industrial ones, but ones as mentioned that were more heavily based on 1 particular industry just collapsed. Suburban growth was a double edged sword that crippled the inner cities. Suburban growth starting to take off in the 50s, new construction outside of the city. Larger land, quiet life style, and with the car culture also massive growth at the exact same time, you now could get from your peaceful suburban house to your inner city job almost as quickly as it use to take you from your city home to work. If the jobs never left, the cities would of managed to survive much better. It didnt help many black people came from the south to the north looking for more job opportunities which were already starting to decrease in inner cities for even white people. Racist had some impact, but it was 1 of many factors.
@Thomas Barrish NewYork City went through a large decline 60s-1993. Lost over 1 million people. But with originally 7.8 million in the first place, it still had 6.8 million. Eventually recovered, in 2020 it reached 8.4 million. It recovered, it was a different situation in many ways though. But black riots or black migration are not a single cause to create massive decline for white people, jobs availability is probably the number 1 factor to keep people in a city in the first place. NYC had massive banking industry to keep it going.
Decades of central planning and over spending, starting with Cavanaugh, was what really signed Detroit's death warrant. Then riots and government graft and sleaze through the 70s, 80s, and 90s just tightened the hand on the neck.
one of my best friends was a detroit native, who moved to socal in 1988. he refused to even visit his hometown because it was too heartbreaking to see the collapse. this was in the 90's, i can only imagine what he thinks of the place now....
When your cars are made in Japan, South Korea, Germany, or Mexico, what did you suppose would happen to Detroit? A lot of these neighborhoods were at one time good places to live for the working class industrial workers. But when the jobs disappeared, the socio-economic structure collapsed, along with the family structure. But some people at the top got rich by making these changes, they live elsewhere.
Foreign competition came in the 1960's as well as corrupt politicians that started the downfall of this once mighty auto industrialized city, not to mention the 1967 riots dealt this city a black eye on top of it.
That America dream
I'm thinking it was the 1986 Camaro that almost wasn't built for the reason that the labor union claimed it was "too difficult to build". I reckon union thuggery had a hand in the demise of the once-powerful Detroit industrial scene.
What's that have to do with treating your home like garbage and forgetting how to cut a lawn? Sounds like your argument means they have time in their hands.
@@drmartin5062 The people who had them built or moved in when brand new certainly kept the lawns mowed and etc. We know who they were. It isn't that way now. Someone else has moved in.
Note that the little corner stores are all gone-closed and boarded up-no doubt no one will run one, since you will be robbed . This is really the problem-crime is rampant in these areas, so no one will invest anything in these areas.
but if you arrest the criminals they will scream racial profiling and cops being racist. smh. I would not want to be a cop there
Ad Mirer....says the OVERPRIVILEGED white girl
Roy Hollins idiot!!
The city is on a come back. If you know you history you'll know the US government is 100 % worst then Nazi Germany.
Roy Hollins Are You effing kidding me? I put a lot of time on this earth and seen it all..I’ve seen black communities go through beautiful neighborhoods like Locusts and strip everything and leave it to die! Never has there been a more racist group. Privilege? BLACK PPL WANT,EXPECT THE GOVERNMENT TO GIVE THEM EVERYTHING AND IF THEY DON’T THEY TAKE IT! BLM are demanding ONLY blacks get free housing,education,ect from ALL white Americans!And the worst part is they have no shame and will deny these traits until death.Its beyond pathetic..AND they run like pacts of animals.Giving a good argument for lower brain activity..Of course not all are this way but most.Or they have a sickening opinion like you.Too stupid to think for themselves.And MARK MY WORDS..If this this keeps up they won’t have to worry about hating whitey anymore bc ther will be a race war! And you might look around you and feel safe bc it being mostly black (pacts) But drive down those roads baby,look up those mountains bc they’ll be some mad ass,gun packing ppl that daughters were victimized and rapped ,robbed by a “pact” of black men like I was and you’ll know what being only 19% of the country feels like
I grew up in Detroit in the 50s'. Had many big beautiful houses. Everyone in my neighborhood (Jefferson & Concord) south of Belle Isle bridge got along. Was a great city then.My parents moved us to the surburbs when I was 15. I didn't want to go but of course had to. It breaks my heart to see what has become.
I think you're doing a good thing by showing this on YT. People need to see how bad it is and how desperately Detroit needs help. The fact that this not a third world country but right here in America should wake people up.
I don't think you can help Detroit. it starts with the people. no business will want to move in if the crime is that bad.
It is like that because the business left. Detroit was built by the auto industry. Most of that is completely gone now. You have lots of buildings but nobody to live in them... It has nothing to do with politics or color.
Paul bro the city is GONE. It will never in our lifetimes be what it once was. Its better to just to move on than to hope for something that will NEVER happen again. The city is DEAD.
You can't help people that won't help themselves
whats sad is the time of 1 dollar houses is over, check zillow, those burnt out houses are shown as 600 thousand dollar investor specials.
It's like Pripyat except there was no nuclear accident, people just up and left anyway.
Exactly. Its not a race issue tho. The automotive industry in Detroit is gone so there's no reason to live there. In the 1950's Detroit WAS the world center of the automotive industry. Thats gone.
Jason Bourne the irony of a white person saying this lmao
these houses look like this because no one can afford to buy them, not because they were destroyed dumbass.
Not going to comment on skin color.People go where the money is at .The American auto industry left to avoid paying union wages+ the retirement and health benefit packages that the workers got.
Mikeel Kinzey I am white and yes I voted for Trump .I prefer not to get into an internet pissing match.I am sure the black folks moved in there after property prices dropped.If there were enough jobs there people still would be living there.
+zapfanzapfan. You think the people left for no reason?? They left due to something that's no less worse than a nuclear accident. If you disagree, then YOU live there.
It's mind blowing seeing this kind of urban decay on such a massive scale. Surely this is unparalleled anywhere else in the world....
You must have never left the USA......
Parts of New York City were like this in the 70s and 80s but 20 years of Republican leadership saved New York.
diversity is our greatest strength
Until I started watching these videos, I had no idea that Detroit, unlike Chicago and New York, had such extensive low density housing. In New York you see so many huge housing projects sometimes 10 or 20 floors high. Truly hard to believe what happened in Detroit going from about 1.9 million to under 700,000...
the down side of allowing us companies to us chinese slave labor is an end to the living wage in manufacturing centers like the mid west, south chi, south LA, rust belt.
Love your videos Charlie. I'm actually gonna be in downtown Detroit this saturday so i'm excited for that. Keep up the good work and stay safe!!
Thanks for watching
Cici Anderson ii
what a shame , those houses would of been beautiful back in the day..what a waste
that was just stupid response really....
John R Native Americans got the united states go.back to Europe
Back in its heyday it would of been a absolutely beautiful neighbourhood all the houses and gardens pristine.
looks like Berlin in 1945
Yes but the Germans went to work, cleared the streets of rubble. Salvaged anything usable to make shelters. Went to work at any job they could find even if it meant working for the Americans, French and British. They got back on their feet. Does anyone see the people that wrecked Detroit building anything?
#thanksjews
@@johnoakes3106 By 1960 or so, West Berline was rebuilt, clean and prosperous. Thanks to its market economy. East Berlin was rebuilt with cheap ugly concrete buildings, or was not rebuilt at all until the 1990s. Thanks to Soviet communism. A related stark contrast pervades the Korean peninsula.
Berlin is mostly apartments
I can not stop watching these videos of Detroit. I keep thinking about how huge those houses were and how dreamy they must have been back when. It’s crazy to see it come to this. I might have to belt out a verse of Whitney Houston’s didn’t we almost have it all.😝😉😬😔😏
Sad really
It's disgusting!
+Digby Dooright ALMOST
Todd Jones It's not 'run' by anyone. Your comment is ludicrous and shows how little you know about local government or politics. Stay in your lane.
I don't understand why these houses are abandoned... windows broken...all overgrown... people are living in some... what made all the other people leave and why are the people there now not taking care of their homes ???
They are black.
Wow you can tell those houses used to be beautiful homes . So sad.
This city is a homeless guys dream. New crib errrrrrr night
Street walkers, too.
Free place to set up shop.
except it's freezing cold most of the year...
Cold and filled with rotting corpses.
Controlled by a proxy government. There are territories.
Someone would burn it down
I was born and raised in Detroit, and it breaks my heart to see these homes decay. Truthfully, most of these homes are too large to maintain for the average individual. All across Michigan not just in Detroit larger homes are boarded up and left to rot. Why? The cost to restore these homes is staggering and the size is just not feasible for the average paycheck with a 30 hour week.
Gloria Hanes I want to move there the houses look so nice I live in Florida born and raised the houses are to much here I can live in Detroit and live happy in a big house. My income is from online.
Gloria Hanes but I have a question do you think I will be robbed if I go there if I move there.
Every city has issues, but Detroit has areas which are beautiful. I would plan a trip to Michigan and check out the area yourself. Michigan is very affordable and the winters are mild. I moved back from Arizona as I was homesick for my birth state. Arizona is now polluted, over populated and crowded, and way too expensive.
This is where California is headed.
The whole USA if more Democrats get in power in Washington.
Tommy Truth they sold us out people now take our country back
California has surpassed the UK to become the 5th largest economy.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/04/california-economy-uk-fifth-largest
Lmao it's literally getting more expensive to live there... what do you mean?
...or is
It's beautiful.All I need is my drafting tools, and the original plans and I'm set.The potential is overwhelming!
Nice 1980 Olds Cutlass Calais at 0:45.
Old 60's Mustang at 4:49:)
Thanks for all the great videos! I'm from germany and i never thought that some parts of the US look like this. Really scary...
Mark Berger If don't stop Muslim and blacks coming in you nice country same will happen .
Mark Berger , it is scary, because liberalism created this problem. 2 English words that are scary Entitlement, and Victim. These 2 words caused the destruction of this once Great City!
This is one of the end results of 50+ years of democratic monolithic rule in city hall.
The RAY GUN Reign didn't help Detroit and the rest of the Country either, suck on that.
Then how come americas poorest states are all republican? And richest states are all democrats.
Get out of here. It's called globalism. If automakers were still making most of their cars there, everything would be fine. You build a city around a couple major employers and then have those business's leave, this is what you're left with no matter democrats or republicans are in charge. Same thing with all the other rust belt areas where coal and steel employers have been replaced by imports and mechanization.
When you buy a new car and the CHECK ENGINE light comes on within a month of driving it off the lot you are not going to have repeat costumers for long. My dad took his 84 Chevrolet back to the dealer a dozen times trying to get that light to stay off and all they did was keep resetting the computer because they could not fix it. They even tried to fool him by removing the bulb from the dashboard. That was his last GM purchase.
Nothing to do with Democrats or Republicans. Nothing to do with the color of ones skin either. Detroit was thriving when the auto industry was huge there. As the industry slowed down and relocated to other parts of the country or failed the jobs dried up. You have a large thriving city that lost it's industry and you want to blame Democrats. Capitalism is a GOP/Republican thing. Capitalism failed in Detroit because they moved somewhere cheaper to build. Not rocket science but I guess you need to be smarter than a 4th grader to understand.
Thanks for your videos, I love them and keep the hard work up man. I'll always be here to enjoy the next set of videos be careful out there.
- Sencerly your loyal subscriber
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An automobile monoculture based on now-obsolete manufacturing methods ceased to be able to suppport a large population. The auto industry steadily consolidated and it was consolidating long before those areas were abandoned. There is no reason for manufacturers to build in the frozen hell of the Rust Belt when energy costs are much less elsewhere and they can buy a greenfield site in a state with no winter and no old infrastructure requiring very, very expensive demolition so most of them don't.
Cities exist for economic reasons. If they diversify their business base they survive. If they don't, there is no reason to be there. All those homes are old and most of them were old in 1960. The solution is managed shrinkage to make the city fit reality.
little Africa
Graphics in Fallout 5 look amazing.
This is all about greed , sending jobs over seas so rich people can have more stuff and vacations. No good paying jobs this is what happens and then top it off with racism. The companies want more money forget about people trying to provide for their families.
Wow there are real houses made of stone, mansions.
Hard to imagine that this can happen to a city in Germany.
Democrats. Really, what do they have to lose? Vote Republican.
It doesn't matter who votes, politicians are incompetent that have poor leadership.
Atlanta for example didn´t have a republican mayor since 1879
Let us bow our heads and remain silent to remember those who built and lived in these neighborhoods.
When night falls the Volatiles come out to feast.
Happiest !1of thé top 10 Moment in Detriot's history ! Je finally maître aux ! Motown insideout !
It's interesting to see how the abandonment of one or two houses spreads through the neighborhood. It doesn't seem to matter how good the housing stock was to begin with; good stock, bad stock, they're all abandoned.
it's a shame that only a few houses here and there have been looked after but the rest are decaying. classic architecture from a bygone era !
What's ironic is how you will see here and there a block of decently maintained houses that people are obviously living in, surrounded by 10 blocks of rotting, empty shells. I don't know how the people in the decent houses can stay in that neighbourhood. Not a place to send your kids trick or treating. on Halloween. And from the toys outside looks like there are some kids there.
Thanks for the video. We left SE Mich a few years ago. Enjoyable to watch the old area while listening to the WWJ broadcast.
This is a great shot of South Africa, circa 2025, how did you do that, you got a time machine?
I said the same thing in another comment upthread. South Africa is running out of water fast, with a majority black population. Imagine what that will be like for the whites who are stranded there. They'd better start trying to get out right now.
@@Cynthia-fs4vi never should have came in the first place damn colonizers
good addition with the radio playing.
Sad what these people have done to this city!!!!!
Walk up to anyone on the streets here and ask them if they know who their Mayor is.
These politicians need to only be paid on their job results.
Name any other job where the boss is told what to do by the employees. this is American politics & it needs to be fixed, Actually, I think it is too late.
I'm 51 years old I thought about a life in politics when I was 15 / 16 years old, However, I then thought all of these people are going to be put in jail or overrun by angry mobs and I wanted no part of that. Little did I know
Blacks
Here is your proof that these degenerate liberals ruin everything.
This is so terrible to see. All of these once beautiful and well kept up neighborhoods now decayed and in ruins. How could this happen to one of our great cities that when I lived there was the fifth largest in the country and was so proud of its accomplishments. I was born in Detroit and lived there until 1962. Never could I have imagined what would happen to the city I loved.
They ruin everything they touch 😒
united state of africa
Richard Bouthot no no no Africans don't even act like that i worked with many of them as i do now and they come here to be prosperous other than getting educated.
Richard Bouthot no no no Africans don't even act like that i worked with many of them as i do now and they come here to be prosperous other than getting educated.
Racist much?
Tony Jackson you are CORRECT. I have good friends in Uganda who take good care of their things.
An example of how unions and demoncrats destroyed a whole city
Videos are educational to someone like me who lives on an island in the Bahamas thanks Charlie Jah bless.
why is this place like this when there are 1000s of homeless. I'm from England and we never see this. wow so many beautiful homes going to waste
kinda hard to buy/maintain a house when you sit around drinking or smoking crack all day.
badferrit badferrit If you don't stop blacks and Muslim coming to you country same thing will happen.
There isnt anywhere in England that has abandoned homes and destruction to this extent of Detroit, especially since they are often big, beautiful homes that have become ghettos, and the destruction is all over Detroit. But there is some rough looking, run down cities and towns in England. I've been to Birmingham many times, also a car auto industry city, there is lots of abandoned factories, abandoned shops, abandoned pubs and some abandoned homes & empty high rise concrete estates (government housing), you see it as you enter the city by trains, it's like a ring of depression surrounding the city centre. Liverpool has its shitty areas to, the Anfield neighbourhood around Liverpool FC had lots of abandoned homes, not sure if it has improved today or not as that was over 10 years ago since I last seen it, but they use to have rows of abandoned homes on some streets, with other streets having 1/3 or 1/2 the row houses being abandoned. Burnley ain't pretty looking either. I'm sure there is other cities & towns that arent pretty that I just havent seen.
I'm in southern Ontario and always wanted to see these houses in person.
These houses built in the early 1910's- 1920's were built exactly when car manufacturing and Ford was taking off. Detroit was the same size or even bigger than Chicago. I think it was second after New York in population
They are beautiful...and this dosnt even show some of the mini mansions of the time from the upper classes.
Detroit population dropped 1.2 million from 1950-2017. The city population is currently declining by 5% every year.
That is why so many homes and businesses are abandoned. 60% of the city's population dropped, and over a million who have lived and runned businesses there have move away leaving them all empty and to rot and fall apart.
Much like New Orleans.
Ricky O Who would leave there?
If you don't leave you will be murdered.
Thank You for this film...I keep waiting n pray that Detroit will rebound....
This is terrible especially for the people still living there the value of their homes must be so low now they couldnt sell them if they wanted to. Are there any supermarkets still open with fresh food or just the convience stores?
Very few supermarkets exist north of the downtown core. Heck, you know it's bad when there isn't a Wal-Mart within Detroit's city limits. The nearest one is 12 miles outside of city limits.
I notice in these videos there's always a few home scattered about that are still lived in as people try to hang on, or, as you say, can't sell if they wanted to.
As of a few years ago the last major grocer pulled out of Detroit so all that is left are convenience stores.
I'm sure they're worried about looting. There's no Wal-Mart, either. They'd rob the places blind.
And those are probably shop-lifted on a regular basis, too.
Shame, people once took pride in all of those homes. Now it looks like very few get cared for. It amazes me that land was at such a premium in the city that these houses were built right on top of each other. It is nice to see some open space.
Home owners should be able to buy vacant lots next to them from the city for a reasonable price and use the area for a garden, pool, or other out door activates.
I grew up on the east side. Was nice. Blame is on the blacks. No question.
Show me facts and not bias
So did i my family and i moved to the south in1986 it is sad to see this, but i am glad to be away from this.
Was it not Bill Clinton a white president who signed NAFTA
Clinton signed it but Bush and the GOP Congress created NAFTA. Does it hurt to be stupid? It should.
Detroit will not come back at least not in my life time
Although low-density residential developments are still declining in Detroit, many larger developments, such as historic high-rises, apartments, mansions and skyscrapers, are actually being restored.
In 1955 the dream looks like it just have been firmly entrenched, look at the public frontage what a glorious wide open place this had to be for everyone but riots and white flight put an end to that.
Welcome to Democrats in charge of cities!
So what's the excuse for poor Southern, Republican states?
If people had a brain they wouldn't vote either one of these corrupt criminal parties.
@@nateduggan3146 If you had not noticed the South only flipped Republican recently they had Democrats in control for over 100 years. That's why you had jim crow and the kkk and slavery. Keeping in mind that the First Republican President, Lincoln, freed the slaves the Democrats opposed that. The south also had no history of the large industry to lose, of any wealth to lose, as Detroit was rich and threw it all away.
These majestic homes in Detroit just blow me away.
This is living proof what happens under a Liberal Progressive form of government rule~!!!! Yet they look but they don't see.
Looks like Gary Indiana; West End Atlanta; Miami Florida; Philadelphia; Albuquerque NM. Several other cities too numerous to mention. Welcome to America.
This city use to be one of the greatest in the country. So sad.
It breaks my heart. So many beautiful brick homes with slate tile roofs, cut glass doors, maple, oak and teak woodwork, fine workmanship and well sited.
They couldn't help that they are located in a sewer.
On the lower east side, there were nice homes on canals, with docks and lake access. I was there in the winter, and watched 2 men towing a beautiful grandfather clock along the icy canal with a rope!
Very sad.
Maybe the Obama's can move in here and make a difference.
79goldmaster1 oh yeah!!! that's what Detroit needs!!! it's so weird huge houses big neighborhoods but only about 8% population! even the squirrels said see yah!!
...then u woke up to find out it didn't happen wishful thinking Tho'
Detroit has so many beautiful old abandoned homes, and so many homeless people. It is a shame that someone couldn't be given the house before it deteriorates so badly. I really feel for the people who are still eying to maintain their house in a block of empty houses.
Where blacks dwell, life is hell. This is a universal truth.
Many blacks aka africans, moved to California and it's beginning all over again.
No such thing as afro American.
What a sad situation, it's enough to make one cry, All these once beautifull homes Thank you for allowing me to see this, your camera work is very good, youve captured scenes ive only heard about, I had no idea situations were this terrible.
Detroit rock city...
Local Gambler , yes its ruined and the houses are all rubble and ROCKS!
Charlie... This is so heart breaking. I really loved those 2-story bungalo's with the huge frony decks.
How I wish more didnt see them the way I do. So sad my friend. So very sad.
In the Netherlands you'd pay more than a million euros for homes like these...
Well, that's outside of the Amsterdam, Utrecht and The Hague areas. Cause there it would be more like 1,5 million. And in Detroit, houses like that are just a pile of bricks declining in value as we speak. So sad...
You could buy one of these houses for less than $1000. I wonder how much it would cost to have it shipped overseas? Possible business opportunity?
Keep it up Charlie....These were top of the line homes. Nothing wrong with them. Look at the architecture. Heh you would love to hear what my grandparents would say now. They were the 1890s -1907 generation.
thank you builderberg, thank you president clinton, thank you democrats
ceramictiletonight richest states in US are all democrat, poorest states in US are all republican. So you were saying?
And you are full of sh--, Animesh Das.
@Tommy Truth....trumpTURD triggered!!!!
If all those big houses were single family homes I can see why Detroit was the richest city in the world per capita
This was 2 years ago. Have things improved any since then? I see some homes are still lived n and kept up.
This comment was 2 years ago but it’s improved sort of not really
@@khalilt6508 I was about to ask so thank you for answering
That is such a shame, and yet, so many people in this country are homeless.
There is a old saying. Give a white man a pile of bricks and he will build a city. Give a black man a city and he will build a pile of bricks.
FOXBODY 351W lol.
FOXBODY 351W I guess it makes one a racist when he points out that in 1950 the population of Detroit was 97 % white. The city thrived and crime was low. Now the city is 95% minority crime is out of control and business is non existent now.
Roy Hollins don't lie to your self. Whites had never walked on all fours and blacks was never building civilization any wheres. It's a proven fact that blacks been living ing like prehistrick people sinse ancient times when everyone around y all been building the world's greatest civilizations and technology the world has ever seen. Blacks didn't teach no body anything but everyone did it at least tryed to tea h blacks how to run and build a proper civilization but failed at it because blacks rather live prehistoric then live like modern man. Fact.
Or throw the Bricks at Cops with Obama's Blessing...
Ancient ones you might wanna take a few English classes before you post, your grammar is horrible... after that, take a history course or two as well because you CLEARLY have no clue as to what you're talking about. Those ancient pyramids in Egypt, you know, the ones that the white man can't figure out how they built them to this very day...!?... were they not built by blacks?? As a matter of fact there are plenty of African nations that are thriving today, but you wouldn't know that because you obviously live in a very small bubble with no books. The European has done nothing but steal and destroy no matter where he goes on the planet
Wow. Some really nice houses.
Way to go, Democrats.
I can recall a time when I was a child 🚸, my father used to drive down Elmhurst, then Tuxedo during the Christmas 🎄 Holiday Season and most of those dwellings, people lived in and had lighted Christmas 🎄 Decorations depicting Santa and his Reindeer, candles and lights of all different colors throughout the neighborhood! Now it's just a Barren Wasteland of Vacant, Fractured Memories of those of us who grew up here and remembers!!!
Just look at our Broken World?!!?
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE DEMOCRATS ARE IN POWER
There are many ghost towns in the west that were once great mining towns. Once the gold, silver, etc. panned out, the mines close and you then get a ghost town. Well, the gold mines in Detroit (the auto industry) got tired of being used as cash cows by the politicians and unions and closed and/or moved on. Now you have a ghost town.
Nice beautiful black communities lol
Another Hebrew Israelite clown. Nice wizard outfits you guys have.
they could at least clean up there own yard like white people do
Apparently they can't.
MASH MASH that’s what happens when the community becomes black..There’s the proof..What else does anyone want.Im sure the racist blacks will get pissed bc they’re DELUSIONAL BUT THERE IT IS PROOF POSITIVE
Nappy Hebrew; are you really Jewish, or are you just using a "catchy" name?
When I was a kid we used to visit a museum called "the way we where" in a small town in england. Oh my what America was and has become! And the shit aint hit the fan yet!!!!!
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Detroit, the American city that looks like America engaged in a nuclear war 10-25 years ago, and lost.
Oops. Maybe this is just a preview of our lives after WWIII! Roh-oh.
What happened tho? Why is it like this?
@@thought-provokingvideos5464
Detroit's prosperity was based on factories related to the making of automobiles, factories built 1900-1929. When these plants reached their use-by date, they were abandoned and replaced by factories built elsewhere in the USA, or in northern Mexico, or in Japan & Korea. The reason was often the high wages negotiated by the UAW, and the fact that much of the USA is right to work country.
In 1943, Detroit experienced a bad race riot. In 1967, it experienced the worse race riot in American history, which triggered a brutal exodus of Detroit's white residents.
Everybody who could leave Detroit did so; hence Detroit's population today is about 1/3 of what it was in 1950. Detroit's white population shrank to about 60K.
A majority of Detroit's population was made up of people on a monthly check from the government, or of people having neither jobs nor welfare. Lacking jobs and welfare, many Detroit residents turned to drugs and theft. Soon after the 1967 riot, Detroit became a crime infested hell. This led to a further population exodus. The number of abandoned houses and vacant lots soared. Many of Detroit's art deco skyscrapers have been abandoned since the 1980s.
Normal economic life is not possible in a place like Detroit, where life and property are not secure. Detroit averages about 2 murders per day. Believe it or not, there are American cities that are even more violent than Detroit: St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans.
@@thought-provokingvideos5464 People were so desperate to flee Detroit's violence, drug addiction and property destruction, that they abandoned their homes and businesses. Abandoned real estate attracts vandals, arsonists, and copper-strippers. Soon houses fall apart and become completely unlivable. Blight spreads like a contagious disease.
I was born, raised, tormented, and tortured in the city of detroit. I got out years ago, but still it hurts to see the truth of detroit. I see it every day. Nothing has changed. The money remains downtown and in the bew center area, and the neighborhoods are once again left behind. Nothing has changed. Nothing will ever change.
ýo is there a possibility that you enter some of those abandoned houses?
would be VERY intresting for ALOT of people.
Flying look up detroit street watchers
Flying,
Charlie has a video of him entering a couple of the houses... It was dangerous in that he could have fallen through the floors as they are often rotted away or the ceiling falls in on him... Then, there's the danger of running into what I term a "feral, stray, human" inside one of them...
The houses are stripped of copper plumbing and electrical wires and full of trash... It's nothing worth seeing...
Well there are videos on here and when you see some of them or go inside you think of families having dinner, socializing, the ghosts of the past.
ELECTRICCLOCK,
I've often had "who used to live here" moments when I've watched Charlie's and other's similar videos...
Yeah we think different than those who occupy today. I've wanted to do these videos for a long time but it's just too depressing.
Someday I would like to see Detroit. I will add this to my bucket list. ❤️❤️❤️
You are looking at a failed municipality, gentle viewers.
Man, to be a craftsman back then, taking pride in what you got done every day and to have your hard work end up like this. These houses have tons of character, probably served their occupants well and are now basically abandoned and are for shit. For shame Detroit
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