Is people voting "with their feet" what made Michigan the only state in the country to lose population on the 2010 census? That just happened to coincide with a massive population decline in Detroit.
At some point you have to acknowledge -- because I know you already realize it -- that the population decline has been out of Detroit's control, for the most part. Sure, there are plenty of things that politicians in Detroit could have done not to contribute to the toxic political environment, but at the end of the day the true driver of the population shift [[sprawl) has always been out of their control. I think your proposed fixes are superficial and ignoring of the true problem. Fixing the sprawl is a giant leap towards stabilizing the city [[and inner ring suburbs) that will cost taxpayers nothing.
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