Why is Detroit shrinking?

[nain rouge]

So I guess what we should have learned is that we should leave ghettos the way they are because that is better for the people living there.

Oh great, now we have urban renewal defenders. Go read about Pruitt-Igoe [[as you can't look at it, since that particular urban renewal project only lasted a handful of years before people decided they were better off without it). It was never an answer. Gentrification has proven that rundown, old neighborhoods can be made viable again without running a wrecking ball through the whole thing. Organic development is almost always preferable to government projects. Empower the people to make change, not the bureaucrats. You don't think there was any connection between 16% black unemployment in the '50s, extremely segregated neighborhoods, and the hopelessness and disillusionment that boiled over into the '67 riot?

[Wheels]

Oh great, now we have urban renewal defenders. Go read about Pruitt-Igoe [[as you can't look at it, since that particular urban renewal project only lasted a handful of years before people decided they were better off without it). It was never an answer. Gentrification has proven that rundown, old neighborhoods can be made viable again without running a wrecking ball through the whole thing. Organic development is almost always preferable to government projects. Empower the people to make change, not the bureaucrats. You don't think there was any connection between 16% black unemployment in the '50s, extremely segregated neighborhoods, and the hopelessness and disillusionment that boiled over into the '67 riot?

Gentrification is better for the people of a ghetto neighborhood? I never knew that.