Quote Originally Posted by Bham1982 View Post
You have no clue what you're talking about.

First, the Census is the only source for such data, and I am only repeating the results from the Census. You don't like the Census results, so you attack the source. No, "The Census is lying and hates Detroit" is not a reasonable response.

SEMCOG is NOT a source for population or permits data. They don't even have the staff to attempt such an endeavor. The Census Bureau has tens of thousands of workers including hundreds of stats PhDs sifting through the data. They're probably the most reliable national Census on the planet. In fact even SEMCOG uses the Census.



This quote is a pretty good encapsulation of the boosters on DYes. Completely, utterly absurd and delusional.
SEMCOG has done a monthly survey of all communities in the region for residential building permits since 1969. Quick, better tell them they don't have the capacity to do something they have been doing for 45 years.
http://www.semcog.org/data/apps/permits.cfm

They also sent out a press release for their new population estimates this morning. That's quite apropos of them.
http://library.semcog.org/InmagicGen...cember2014.pdf

As an aside, I went to school with the guy that heads their demographics department. Last time I checked, Michigan hadn't revoked his PhD.