I was only there 24 hours. It's my birth place. Went to the eastside and noticed several "city of Detroit demolition" yellow stickers on houses. A neighbor friend said the city came to her block [[only 2 houses on the block) and told them they would be bought out and the vacant houses would be demolished.

First question -- how long will this take for the city to finish demolishing houses? Seems that would take years.
Second -- does the yellow sticker on a house means it's in a DB and will be among the first to go?
Third -- does the city have the money to buy the owner's out?

This seems to pie-in-the-sky to me. I welcome it, because the blocks I visited were hideous. The trees and shrubs and weeds had grown so high there was no sidewalk. People were walking in the streets -- like it was the rural south!

Then I went over to the New Center on Blvd. and it was a different, although not bright, scene. Once you got out of NC and went further up the Blvd., more delapidated properties. People are not living in.

I just don't think this is going to be accomplished in Duggan's 4 years.