Can you name something that makes you feel Detroit is on a comeback

[Bobl]

There is definitely a comeback, heavily subsidized, in Midtown and Downtown. When there are good jobs available to all, vacant homes are replaced, it is safe to go to a gas station or to functional schools, the City will have made real progress.

[MikeyinBrooklyn]

There is definitely a comeback, heavily subsidized, in Midtown and Downtown. When there are good jobs available to all, vacant homes are replaced, it is safe to go to a gas station or to functional schools, the City will have made real progress.

Somewhat subsidized, and the level of subsidy needed to lure people and jobs is shrinking. Agree on most of your points, but I will point out that a great deal of Detroit's unemployed are not readily employable, and that is the problem. Between lack of a functioning education [[many high school non-grads, some grads who still lack basic reading & math skills), lack of job history, and lack of skills to get a job, the number of unemployable Detroiters is into the 6 figures [[how many exactly I don't know; I bet no one actually knows). A gigantic new enterprise could open in Detroit and seek to hire Detroiters, but many of those people would not get hired. Everyone who is in that situation needs to be prodded by everyone they know to take advantage of an adult education program, and start working somewhere [[even as a volunteer) to get skills and learn professional responsibility. The problem with adults in that situation is that you can't externally impose a fix on them. You can offer opportunity and encouragement, but it is up to them to step up and do it.