5 firms will offer staff cash to live in downtown Detroit

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I'm not worried about too many people moving in to the downtown business district in general. I'm just not looking forward to increased traffic, yuppies, and most importantly, rents. Not an unreasonable opinion.

Yes because it's much more desirable to have gang bangers shooting up clubs and tons of homeless on the streets.

[kryptonite]

Yes because it's much more desirable to have gang bangers shooting up clubs and tons of homeless on the streets.

I agree totally. Any plan offered in Detroit always brings out the Nimbys and the Piss-and-moan crowd. I guess they believe the status quo [[sh*ttiest city in America) is too good to tamper with.

This is an innovative plan that attempts to bring a few new residents to the Downtown/Midtown areas, to address the 40+ year pattern of job/population loss that has left Detroit so abandoned.

Things ARE improving in the central city area, Midtown possibly more so than Downtown. But things appear to be on the mend and positive thinking by several business leaders are making positive improvements. Compare the cleanliness and large number of flowers that you enjoy downtown nowadays, largely due to Penske's clean-up effort. The privately-funded rail project has made more progress than any other effort to initiate mass transit in Detroit, festivals, concerts, the River Conservancy, etc. Without private involvement few these projects would have ever materialized.

This housing incentive is just another innovation, in my opinion congratulations to the people that came up with these ideas.