Quote Originally Posted by DTWflyer View Post
Another thing to consider, which someone else eluded to, is that since 2000 and during the housing bubble, some of the higher income folks left SH and moved up to the new McMansions and developments up in Shelby, Macomb Twp, etc. that have been built in the past 10 years.

SH and some of these communities are getting slammed for multiple reasons:
1) higher unemployment
2) auto industry restructuring
3) reduced wages / less overtime
4) aging population [[more retirees, either who reached retirement or took buyouts and early packages)
5) higher income families who upgraded and moved into all those shiny new homes during MI's mini-housing boom [[that quickly ended in 2008) that could arguably only afford them through the financial trickery seen over the past few years.
6) immigrants continuing to move into the area
7) out migration of Detroit residents [[generally lower income at this point)

All of the above reasons impact each of the communities to a varying degree over the past 10 years.
Good points. I would also add that this is part of a national trend: Fewer people want to live in this sort of environment; many today consider it passé.