HUD, DHC and real estate folks has been doing block busting of old Detroit ghetto hoods since the early 1960's to lure poor blacks and other poor people so that middle class and rich folks and pack their bags and move to ticky tacky little boxes in the suburbs and ex-urbs. Slumlords are doing the same. The result you have block after block the abandon homes and buildings. You see today.

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3833...7i16384!8i8192

This is Phillip St in Detroit's East Side just 4 blocks west of Grosse Pointe Park [[a.k.a) Richville!