Quote Originally Posted by nain rouge View Post
If that happens - and it looks quite likely - the end result will be the complete downfall of huge swaths of the 8-14 Mile area in Macomb County. Goodbye Roseville and Eastpointe. We hardly knew ye, Warren. Only the shoreline will make it out OK. There just isn't enough population growth [[if there is any, really) to support that kind of development without a corresponding level of decay.[/COLOR]
It's already happening.

Have you been through Eastpointe and Harper Woods lately? Both have majority black populations, retailers have been fleeing these places and they probably have a sizable number of Section 8 renters these days.

Much of NE DEtroit will probably look like the lower east side [[with nothing but urban prairies lining the streets) over the next 10-20 years as those vacant homes are demolished or collapse.