Originally Posted by
Detroitgayhistoryguy
This all started because of the mortgage crisis. Cities like Harper Woods, Redford, Livonia, Southfield, etc used to be too expensive to rent for poor Detroit residents. With cheap foreclosures, lower housing prices, the rents in these cities got way cheaper. Poor, uneducated people from Detroit moved out into these suburbs and now brought their problems to these cities. With multiple generations of high school drop outs who can't read and are never going to be able to read, what do you do about these people? It is going to create a second wave of white flight out of the first ring suburbs, as the shootings start at the schools. There just is no easy answer. Maybe when a young man goes to prison, don't let him out until he learns to read at a required reading level. Until then, more police, tougher sentences and more prisons.