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Old 12-22-2008, 02:11 PM
 
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Old 12-22-2008, 02:44 PM
 
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Interesting read...This guy said it near perfectly: "Detroit has got to figure out a way to make people feel it's safe - if people don't want to live there, it's tough to develop any kind of tax base," Douglas said. "Whites have to move back in. You've got to have the integration factor. Everyone has to come together."
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Old 12-22-2008, 07:06 PM
 
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Interesting read...This guy said it near perfectly: "Detroit has got to figure out a way to make people feel it's safe - if people don't want to live there, it's tough to develop any kind of tax base," Douglas said. "Whites have to move back in. You've got to have the integration factor. Everyone has to come together."
Basically and gentrification in Detroit might actually make the most sense in that many neighborhoods are becoming abandoned. So, the threat of pushing people out isn't there as much as it would be in other cities considering that the city is basically at half it's capacity.
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Old 12-23-2008, 08:17 AM
 
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Except it's more or less impossible to make Detroit feel safe. Affluent people have no reason to take a risk and move to Detroit. Work there? Maybe. Live there? Not in a million years. You have beautiful suburbs north of 8 mile. Please tell me why anyone would be that selfless to take such a huge drop in luxuries to live in the crime ridden **** hole which is Detroit. It won't happen. Wishful thinking but it just won't happen. Not unless something drastic happens within Detroit but the negative mentality and the state of the economy don't bode well for the city. No businesses want to move to Detroit. Detroit only needs to see a few businesses (GM for instance) move out of the city and it would implode.

The only thing I see viable at this point is to bulldoze all the crime ridden areas, bulldoze all the deteriorating buildings, kick out all the drug addicts, kick out the idiot gangs, etc... have a few years of low crime and increased school test scores and MAYBE....MAYBE at that point a business might consider Detroit as a destination. Might have to bring in the national guard (LOL). ****ty times call for ****ty measures.
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