Today's Free Press has a major article and some associated lesser articles and opinions on the Detroit Bankruptcy whose 10th anniversary is July 18.

What is your opinion? Is Detroit better, worse, or about the same ten years later?

In brief these are the article's yes, buts:


  • Crime rate same, but police response better
  • City Budget stabilized, but break from paying into its retiree pension fund ending. [An associated article covers the pension situation and the retirees who took the hard hits of the bankruptcy]
  • Population decline continuing, no buts about it
  • Home values up 62%, no buts about it
  • Poverty rate declined from 41% to 30% but Detroit is still qualifies as the poorest large city in the nation
  • Unemployment rate down from 18.8% to around 6% [hit 4.6 in April was 6.4 in May]
  • High School graduation statistically the same at 65%, but numbers skewed by pandemic, had hit 78% at one point prior to that
  • The Neighborhoods, unfortunately the article does not give any measures.