Money misspent by who? The garbage the garbage politicians hired by detroiters? I have a hard time believing that a city that was considered to be the greatest city in the country fell to be an unlivable shithole because the "good" people stayed as long as they could. And then those same people who "stayed" are afraid of change for the better now. The last people anybody should listen to are the people who fucked up their neighborhood in the first place.