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The problem is a plan like this is inherently fiscally unsound. You do not make money building a couple cities the size of Port Huron, and bulldozing 37 square miles of the city except in the very...

I think a written explanation of how the Dutch Welfare state is today is stronger evidence then something somebody remembers hearing 16 years ago about how the Dutch system was in the early 70s.

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Has anyone actually offered this? On a scale that matters? I love Focus Hope as much as the next guy, and if they had funding for 500 machinist slots next year I'd be all for doing whatever it takes...

She must have been in on the very first edition of the Dutch Welfare state. It was only started in 1963.

Regardless, apparently it's changed a lot since then, she was remembering wrong, or you're...

For one thing in Detroit a suburb is an independent city with it's own Mayor. In other bits of the US [[particularly California) a suburb could be a neighborhood within a larger City, but in Detroit a...

This actually show you why the low-tax strategy the South uses means you get lots of low-wage jobs. If the City could re-vamp it's schools so that HS was five-year program resulting in an Associates,...

What's interesting to me is that I can find nothing on the internet on the Dutch having a welfare system where you have to repay benefits. I can find their model is Social Democratic, and Social...

@MikeyinBrooklyn:
That's great theory.

In Practice Denmark spends a lot more on welfare then we do, without requiring people to do busy-work to get it, and they have lower poverty then us.
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One element of cost-of-living I never see anybody talk about, that is probably more important in the City of Detroit then anywhere else int he entire country, is redlining. When I left Detroit my car...

You do realize that STRESS was mostly cover for psycopathic serial killer Raymond Peterson, and that Detroit's crime rates actually fell when it was abolished?

The parking structure employs a couple guys who pay City Income tax. It's probably only a couple hundred bucks to a grand a year, but it's more then the zero the land would be generating otherwise.
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In some ways this is true. Archer actually managed to achieve it. The problem is that it's virtually impossible to sustain unless the Governor not only wants to subsidize Detroit, but also has the...

@MWlibert:
People think Detroit is inefficient and mismanaged because the cops don't come when you need them and other city services are slow. This is despite the fact that, from a citizen's...

What exactly are they proposing?

More greenspace would be nice, but isn't a city-saver. Talking to neighborhoods respectfully is nice, but also not a city-saver.

To save the city you need to...

I'm not talking physical possibility. I'm talking legally possible.

So there's only one guy on the block. To make your idea work he has to move. You've got to convince to give up his home, or...

My problem with your plan is it's too ambitious. Many countries have tried to make government services more efficient by concentrating the population, but very few have been so successful at it that...

Bankruptcy won't help. Bankruptcy can only cut bond payments and labor costs. It can't magically make working class black people, who earn roughly 1/3 of the average white man's wage, only cost 1/3...