In a city filled with blight, one Detroit neighborhood gets help while another waits

[Mackinaw]

Limited funds.

Yep, and 127 sq. mi.

Brightmoor is mostly wiped-out by demolition, anyway.

The City seems to be codifying its demolition policy [[sending Pulte packing was part of this, I think), and the policy seems to be: do swift surgery on our functioning limbs. Even better, I think the policy is to preserve that which is salvageable and only remove the real cancers. Given the amount of demo already seen and the fact that emptiness cures nothing, this is a proper policy.

[Wesley Mouch]

Not wise to be critical based on one person's story.

There are lots of reasons why demolitions might be done in clusters. The most obvious one is that if you want to reduce the cost and increase the volume of demolitions, you should do them in clusters. The cluster needs to be large enough so that your overhead costs is spread over several dozen homes. Do you know how much it costs to move heavy machinery around? I don't, but I know that its not trivial. So if you can, move it once and then drive it to do as many homes as you can in the same area. Same thing for every other step involved. For example, there's some job supervision. Somebody going around making sure things are being done right, identifying the homes, inspecting the results, coordinating the hauling, etc. Better for that person to drive 1 block to the next job, rather than 13 miles.

Or we can add 'demolition inequality' to 'income inequality' and pass some laws to make sure that demolition is done fairly and equitably.