Everyone remembers that plan to shut water off and hope people give up and run away?
that failed when it became a global news story.

Water shutoffs being inhumane and all, but foreclosures arent inhumane. its just business as usual.
the new plan? cant take the water, might as well take the entire house.

You're right, they weren't paying taxes, so how were they helping the city/county at all? they still buy food [[presumably) in the city, thus the food business pays taxes. if you remove 80k people ability to live here , wont that affect all other businesses ?

80k more bank/county owned properties with no way to secure them against scrappers.

What about rick Snyder's plan to get 50k people to move to Detroit? is that before or after foreclosing on 100k properties in the past 2 years and 80k properties next year?

http://motorcitymuckraker.com/2014/1...00-properties/