25% of Detroit to be Bulldozed
The Mayor Of Detroit’s Radical Plan To Bulldoze One Quarter Of The City
3/10/2010
How do you save a city that is dramatically declining like Detroit? Well, for the mayor of Detroit the answer is simple - you bulldoze one-fourth of the city. Faced with a 300 million dollar budget deficit and a rapidly dwindling tax base, Detroit finds itself having to make some really hard choices. During the glory days of the 1950s, Detroit was a booming metropolis of approximately 2 million people, but now young people have left in droves and the current population is less than a million.
The true unemployment rate for those still living in Detroit is estimated to be somewhere around 45 to 50 percent, and poverty and desperation have become entrenched everywhere. In many areas of the city, only one or two houses remain occupied an an entire city block. In fact, some areas of Detroit have so many vacant, burned-out homes that they literally look like war zones. And yes, it is true that there are actually some houses in Detroit that you can actually buy for just one dollar. According to one recent estimate, Detroit has 33,500 empty houses and 91,000 vacant residential lots.
So what can be done when an entire city experiences economic collapse?
Well, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing believes that the answer is to downsize on a massive scale. Bing believes that Detroit simply cannot continue to pay for police patrols, fire protection and other essential services for areas that resemble ghost towns.
So his plan is to bulldoze approximately 10,000 houses and empty buildings over the next 3 years and direct new investment into stronger neighborhoods. In the areas that the city plans to bulldoze, the residents would be offered the opportunity to relocate to a better area. For buildings that have already been abandoned, the city could simply use tax foreclosure proceedings to reclaim them. Of course if there were some residents that did not want to move, eminent domain could be used to force them out.
So which areas would be bulldozed and which areas would be left standing?
Nobody knows yet, and those decisions could make a lot of people angry.
Also, the city of Detroit simply does not have the money to purchase land and relocate residents without federal assistance.
So there are problems.
But other smaller cities are already doing this kind of thing on a smaller scale.
More:
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-mayor-of-det...
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This was foretold in 1990
Where's Robocop!?! Seriously though Robocop 2 is exactly what this all sounds like.
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Detroit has an infrastructure
Detroit has an infrastructure of utilities that is worth something to developers.
My solution would be to grant developers the right to build walled gated neighborhoods sort of like the blocks of housing seen in the movie Romeo and Juliet. The streets were no man's land but civility reigned within each block. Gradually take Detroit back one development at a time. Developments could be large enough to accomodate their own private schools, groceries and offices and maintain their own security. The result would be tax revenue for Detroit and less territory requiring city services so a better job of providing city services could be done in the remainder of the city.
I know that the idea isn't somehow politically correct but it is better than wasting infrastructure to subsidized government farms.
that is already happening,
that is already happening, but not enough developers want the land in the god forsaken city.
Only because they will still
Only because they will still be forced to fork over to sustain the failed government that created the mess in the first place, as well as still having to comply with the exact same laws and regulations that changed Detroit from a relatively civilized place to what it is today.
If the various levels of dysfunctional government that has contributed to turning Detroit into a cesspool, truly promised to stay the heck away, there would be no shortage of takers for the land. But as it stands now, the choices are leave and let be bulldozed, or comply with the same idiocy that caused the current blight.
Any policy more enlightened would quickly expose current government everywhere, as the wealth and civilization destroying menace that it is, and we can't have that, now can we.....
Better to simply bulldoze poor people's houses, since poor people don't have much mass media access anyway, and their role in this brave new world, is simply to provide better off leftist half wits with someone they can pretend to care about for the purpose of climbing progressive social ladders.
Anybody see "Jaws"?
"We're gonna need a bigger bulldozer"...
Classic leftist brain dead
Classic leftist brain dead lack of a clue about anything at all: "Hey guys, some people are poor, lets make it better by destroying whatever little of value they actually have. Then they can be dependent on us nice liberal folk, instead."
There should be a law on the books everywhere stating that the first buildings to be razed in any country, state or municipality, would be the ones belonging to government. Then the ones belonging to those in government. Then to government bureaucrats and other tax feeders. And only once all those are razed, to save money on "police patrols, fire protection and other essential services" should any private home owned and / or occupied by a non tax feeder even be considered for demolition. I be willing to bet, once the tax feeders are homeless frozen stiff, most of the troubles experienced by those left, will disappear pretty much by themselves.
Nuke those areas
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Agree Thomas.
This is not the best way to impress us with his wisdom.
Good pickup on your part of either a poorly thought out comment or a troll.
We've seen this one before.
Back in the 1950's the "Urban Renewel" program was enacted. The poorer parts of inner cities were bulldozed.
The result was a shortage of affordable housing for the poor, so the Feds built government housing(projects) to try to solve the problem they created.
Why couldn't the owners of these unoccupied houses contract home sitters to live there for free(or pay part of the property taxes, or do upkeep)? The owners could wait for the value of the property to rise, and it will.
UK: Detroit family homes sell for just $10
No mention of bulldozing in this story. However, BBC has a documentary about Detroit to be shown today.
Family homes in Detroit are selling for as little as $10 (£6) in the wake of America's financial meltdown.
Published: 10:05AM GMT 12 Mar 2010
The once thriving industrial city has suffered a dramatic decline following the global economic crisis.
According to Tim Prophit, a real estate agent, the crisis has led to a unprecedented portfolio of homes, but they are failing to sell.
He said there were homes on the market for $100 (£61), but an offer of just $10 (£6) would be likely to be accepted.
Speaking on a BBC 2 documentary, Requiem for Detroit, to be screened on Saturday, Mr Prophit said: "The property is listed by the city of Detroit as being worth $35,000 (£22,000), but the bank know that is impossible to ask.
"This part of town has got a lot of bad press in the media because it featured in Eminem's film 'Eight Mile', but that particular road is fifteen minutes up the road and that is a long way in Detroit."
Homes offered in viewing brochures as early 1920s example of colonial architecture would once have made handsome homes but are no longer sought after.
Mr Prophit, of The Bearing Group, said: "This house was foreclosed by the bank a couple of months ago and was offered to us to sell.
"But we can only put the boards up on the windows to protect the property, we can't be here 24 hrs a day to stop the squatters and the crack addicts from moving in.
"Detroit is a city in decline. We are known as the Murder Capital of America, because of the number of deaths each year."
Mr Prophit said: "Since the subprime mortgage crisis and the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the banks have been foreclosing on properties at an increase of 15 per cent every nine months.
More:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/74276...
Disincorporate
They should just disincorporate those areas. Let Wayne County deal with them.
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The one solution no politician would
ever consider is just allowing freedom. Instead of contracting the neighborhoods, the city government could be contracted -- and open up the neighborhoods to squatters, settlers, urban new pioneers -- think of all the free land, houses, buildings.
I think they'd see a fast renaissance in Detroit. Yes it would be frontier messy, but vibrant and powerfully creative. Of course they'd never want this to happen, the comparison to the controlled parts of the country would be too embarrassing and revealing.
That is absolutely the way to
That is absolutely the way to do it if the goal was bettering the lives of regular Detroit'ers. But, of course, within only a few years, it would be glaringly obvious to all how much better the free areas were than the still occupied ones. Which is why no self respecting tax feeder or statist would dare to let it happen.
It's for the same reason pro government health care people in liberal states won't join the states rights crowd, and demand freedom from the feds to run health care as they see fit, while letting less liberal states do the same. If they were truly confident their system was so much better, they would be more than happy to not have to settle for some compromise that could be accepted federally.
Start from scratch and inject freedom.
Great idea that no one in power will discuss.
Thanks for the article
If you're young, Detroit would be a great place to go for a fresh start.
It is hitting bottom, and nothing goes down forever. Artists will likely start moving their in droves, due to the cheap property. You can get property for practically nothing. And the city is destroying supply!
Move there with a couple of friends and start a nice community. Nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd.
I think that's a great idea.
I'd love to go and buy up a dozen old homes and renovate them.
I'll go if you and the hillbilly go too.
Oh wait... you said, "if you're young".
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i lived in detroit, and this
i lived in detroit, and this is absolutely necessary. i do not agree with the way the feds came in and started this with flint. but in detroit, on a local level, this is the only way to save this city.
why
does anybody think the "city" should be saved at all?
Decades and decades of wild mismanagement and corruption should no longer be subsidized or tolerated. Declare bankruptcy, dis-incorporate, whatever, but stop pretending that any local government scheme will fix the place.
while declaring bankruptcy
while declaring bankruptcy and disincorporating would be good ideas, it is unrealistic to think they will do these things at this point, and even if they did, it would reincorporate just as fast as the first corporatist gave a few bucks to a state legislator to write the bill and pass it.
i'm not pretending it will fix the problem. nothing will fix the problems there. but it will take the city's cash out of the areas where it's services are unnecessary.
wow
quote - Detroit has 33,500 empty houses and 91,000 vacant residential lots.
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This is the same thing they did in Zimbabwe
And left allot of people homeless.
Like the below posters..it does king of smell like Agenda 21 and sustainable development.
Think about it
Think of all the stuff they gotta pay for and keep up.
Sewers, Water lines, Streets, Sidewalks, Trees, City Lights, Street Cleaning, Trash pickup, gas lines, Policing, code enforcement, animal control...
Whew! All that and 5% (guess) of homes are occupied. Crazy.
I feel bad for poor Johnny the Drug Dealer though, he's gonna be mad when they dose his hood and make him relocate.
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Why do you think your hearing
about state wide budget deficits all of a sudden, cities with multi-billion dollar deficits ? First before you bite into that bait call the city/state and ask them for the CAFR (Comprehensive Annual Financial Report) for that municipality from the comptroller. Look up "New States Constitution" "Federal Regionalism" "Agenda 21" Still think that 9/11 WASN'T AN INSIDE JOB...Remember it's supposed to have changed everything ? Wars drain the treasury and bankrupt nations. War is to the benefit of "The State" NOT THE PEOPLE,or the RULE OF LAW, it denigrates the CONSTITUTION and BILL OF RIGHTS..with bullcrap like the "Unpatriot Act" torture..etc..I think the TELL was when this criminal bastards had their BANKSTER BAILOUT..They're CLEANING US OUT NOW PEOPLE ?
DOLLAR FAILURE and they think we'll buy into whatever swill they're serving. Being hungry can do that to a person...Don't say it cannot happen, it already is.
Just one last kick in the nuts, then a final deathblow
Not on the massive scale as Detroit but-
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Sad
but necessary, it seems.
The city doesn't have enough money to patrol streets upon streets of abandoned houses.
People have voted with their dollars and feet, and economic reallocation is taking placing away from Detroit and toward other population centers.
Four generations of my family come from Detroit.
It had some of the most beautiful residential architecture in the country until the socialists destroyed the city.
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I live in Michigan
and my thoughts exactly! I am In Grand Rapids and have been to Detroit many times. Many of these homes are built in the 1920's to the 1940's, well build classic sturdy architecture. Your post reminded me of the speach President Kennedy made in Berlin. Detroit may be the best example of what the welfare system has done to this country.
I hope to hear from a friend there
He hasn't been online for a long time. I've been watching his other hangouts on the web, but hadn't seen him around. Good guy too. He lost his job driving truck when he got a back injury. I know his older kids moved back home due to the economy, so they're all working together with the resources they have to make ends meet.
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