A possible Amalgamation of Detroit and Suburbs?

[Jason]

Surprised the legs this ultimate fantasy thread has. More likely Michael Jackson will rise from the dead and build his amusement park on the river.

Honestly his casino would have by far been the best casino. It would have all the normal casino hotel and restaurant stuff, plus the amusement park, and even an aquarium. I haven't been in the casinos very often but whenever I have they've been really depressing places.

[Danny]

Imagine, A populated fasting suburbs with a low populated metro city. That's doesn't sound right for regionalism.

[Sehv313]

That's not going to happen. Harper Woods is not going to piece of Detroit ghetto hood. But for Harper Woods to be amalgamated to Detroit it's up the people's vote. And so will Highland Park and the rest of the suburbs after we take care of changing the State Boundary Commission's city annexation laws. It does have its flaws when it comes when a city becomes a ghost town.

Harper Woods is literally the size of my middle finger and I’m pretty sure the Regent Park neighborhood directly across from Eastland Mall Center is not one of the ghetto hoods you are referring to. I could see Harper Woods becoming annexed as Detroit if our future continues forward. Likely before both HP [[who the city does not want its problems but might as well accept and take over) and Hamtramck [[who is thriving on its own)

[evergreen]

Detroit has an unemployment rate of 25% and a poverty rate in the 40 percentile range. It currently struggles to raise enough money through income and exorbitant property taxes to pay for basic services and has a large pension debt. How would annexation benefit any reasonably prosperous suburb?

[Sehv313]

How would annexation benefit any reasonably prosperous suburb?

It would benefit smaller ones who have the capital to supply basic services but I don’t see it ever happening, I definitely see Detroit expanding in Wayne County [[HP, Hamtramck, HW, Ecorse, and River Rouge) if the downtown boom takes over the inner city areas.

[Richard]

Detroit has an unemployment rate of 25% and a poverty rate in the 40 percentile range. It currently struggles to raise enough money through income and exorbitant property taxes to pay for basic services and has a large pension debt. How would annexation benefit any reasonably prosperous suburb?

that would be just cooking the books,you still have to figure out how to deal with unemployment and poverty rate,under that scheme it would not make it go away,you would continue the cycle of increasing taxation to the point where even more would leave.

The city already has the future pension debt under control with the existing base,the focus should really be on increasing population and businesses within the borders.

Redistributing the wealth only works short term,sooner or later everybody runs out of funds.

Are those other cities also not contributing to the state coffers that COD already receives funds from?

The bill, which passed the U.S. House late Friday night 228-to-206, with support from 13 Republicans including Michigan’s Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, and “no” votes from six Democrats, including Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Detroit, represents a huge surge of money dedicated to fixing the country’s decrepit infrastructure, including $550 billion in new investments.

https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-go...spent-michigan

Read that carefully and ask yourself why your representative voted NO.

[Cincinnati_Kid]

The only suburb Detroit might absorb one day is Highland Park and even that’s unlikely. Detroit doesn’t want to deal with the additional problems HP brings.

Detroit technically has already absorbed Highland Park. Detroit surrounds it.

[KnnNike]

Detroit technically has already absorbed Highland Park. Detroit surrounds it.

In what sense does that mean 'absorbed'? Detroit hasn't absorbed Highland Park in any sense of the word...all of the services, governance structures, **taxes**, etc. are separate.

The only thing that one city surrounding another does is give the surrounded city a special designation known as an "enclave"

[KnnNike]

Actually Detroit is losing its game,it has dropped into 5th place in homicides,which is an improvement considering they filled the number 1 spot for so many years.

All told, the most populated cities in the U.S. reported a 33% average rise in homicides between Q2 2019 and Q2 2021. Topping the rankings ahead of Detroit are New Orleans, Cincinnati, Baltimore, and Philadelphia.

https://www.thecentersquare.com/mich...35daac20c.html

Even at that I think as a tourist,I would feel more comfortable going to Detroit verses Portland or Seattle.

Add Austin to that list. I've spent time in some of the worst neighborhoods of this city, yet I've never been so frightened as when I've had to visit Austin and walk past some of the homeless encampments. Guys following you for blocks, screaming in your face. I was sitting in a Starbucks downtown while a guy literally OD'd on the steps outside. Watched the whole thing unfold, from the initial collapse, to the call to police [[who didn't respond for half an hour), to the paramedics trying to revive him, to them ultimately carting him up and hauling him away [[he died).

And yet Detroit is the one that gets the bad rap...