A Solution for Detroit (let's ask Scooter)

[Crackpot]

the state of michigan what?

[dales]

Would shoulder any and all costs for Detriot's eventual collapse, now or in the future.

[Crackpot]

Why is that?

[dales]

Californian have enough of their own troubles.

[Crackpot]

The residents of Flint, Grand Rapids, Marquette etc... would say the same thing.

[Jarlaxle]

let me explain this for the mentally challenged:
1950
Detroit is a highly segregated city with a white government
1950-1967
Interstates come.
the government places said intestates through poor neighborhoods forcing alot of non- whites out of their homes.
Detroit being highly segregated does not allow for non-whites to move into white neighborhoods.
this causes both population decline and overcrowding in the "colored" neighborhoods.
Government ignores the housing issue and instead relies more and more on thuggish police tactics to keep "those people" in line.
1967 Race riots
1968-1980 Detroit loses over 20% of it's population.

Thus begins the housing blight. BTW how do you propose the government "tears down" houses it doesn't own?

I suspect they DO own many of the empty houses, since the property taxes haven't been paid.

[Crackpot]

you'd be surprised

[Econoline]

Good article on the subject: "There are a multitude of reasons as to why Detroit's fell apart, but all the fundamental causes are rooted in geography." http://geography.about.com/od/urbaneconomicgeography/a/geography-detroit-decline.htm

[Econoline]

Correction: "There are a multitude of reasons as to why Detroit's fell apart, but all the fundamental causes are
rooted in geography..."...and race.
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