A possible Amalgamation of Detroit and Suburbs?

[Danny]

Detroit has too MUCH land, not too little. So you wouldn't want to annex other areas. Then they too would be horribly mis-managed by Detroit City Council etc.

Better to sell off the edges of Detroit to the surrounding suburbs. Get rid of land area. Then you have less for police and fire to have to patrol, while keeping the good stuff like downtown and the water dept.

Perhaps sell off / give away everything West of the Southfield freeway to Redford and Dearborn Heights, and also that peninsula by River Rouge?

They may not work because for the its neighboring suburbs want to have pieces of Detroit will had to deal with the ghetto-like black and blighted areas. And blight control and property procedures would take place that would clause more low-income residents to lose their homes fast.

And speedy gentrification of housing and business development along with high rents will close the coffin on the inner city hoods.

In Minneapolis they do have very good blight control procedures when the Somalians come to town since the early 1990s. and really kept and mostly black North Minneapolis in stable condition.