Why can't Detroit annex neighbouring cities to regain its population?

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Homeless often go to where the services are. How many communities fought every service tooth and nail to keep 'them' out of their community.

Would you support Detroit closing the NSOs, shelters, etc? Would you support these services being distributed evenly across the region. It is not a matter of whining but a matter that homeless and menatlly ill are placed and often migrate to locations near the services offered. Those services are disproportionately in the city.

You can call it whining if you would like but it is simply realism. Other communities have the resources to fight services entering their community. It is not just an issue with Detroit but the region as a whole. Macommb County and Oakland County locate services in their older , poorer communities. The argument is that the services should be near those that need the help but the reality is the services prevent those that need help from leaving the poorest communities.

You can call it whining, I call it addressing reality so I'm guessing you are unwilling to discuss it.

Those services are located in the city and the older suburbs for a reason, and it's not entirely due to the classism and racism you seem to be hinting at. You're making it sound like Oakland County opened a homeless shelter in the middle of Bloomfield Hills, then was forced to move it to Hazel Park to avoid a scandal. Services are located where they've been most needed, and continue to be needed. There's no reason for the county/state/whatever to create a service point from the ground up in a relatively affluent area.

So when engaged in a conversation you can't contribute to you resort to this nonsense Pretty poor attempt at being witty.

Because it's difficult to recognize much logic in your conspiracy theories and misaligned egalitarian ideals. Or maybe that you won't have a slice of humble pie and admit that you might be wrong.