Why hasn't Detroit ever owned up to its urban planning blunders?

[Fury13]

White residents left because they didn't want to live near blacks and it was cheap and easy to built new homes in the suburbs.

That's a REALLY simplistic and wrongheaded statement. It was true in some cases, I'm sure, but not the majority of the time. Most white residents left because of one or more of the following reasons: a) new neighbors were not keeping up their property and/or were of questionable or even criminal character [[black OR white); b) manufacturing jobs moved to the suburbs, so they moved to be closer to work; c) higher crime in their neighborhood, including robbery, auto theft, and assault; d) their kids were forced by legal mandate to be bused to schools out of their neighborhood, and those new schools often had lower standards while the kids could no longer walk back and forth to school; e) VA and FHA loans made it easy for homeowners to afford a new single-family home in the suburbs -- again, nearer their job [[and the key words there are NEW and SINGLE-FAMILY; many blue-collar folks were tired of sharing space in an old, cramped, two-family dwelling on a small lot). Finally, yes, there was the "fear factor" instilled by unscrupulous real estate agents that the residents' neighborhood was "going downhill" -- which created a domino effect and caused homeowners to sell for low prices, almost en masse.