What grand lovely old ladies. Their architecture is historical. Abandoned, their insides are gutted by copper thieves and drug addicts. It hurts my heart to see the tragedy. Great documentation. You are one of the few who gets it and your videos speak for themselves. So refreshing that you aren't a shrill narcissist who makes videos about themselves, no matter what the subject. Keep up the great work. Subscribed
Detroit has some of the most beautiful houses and mansions. The houses built today are junk compared to these old houses. Per square foot, these old houses would cost 10 times more to build than the garbage they build today. Actually, these houses were built with old growth timber that is no longer available.
New homes are far superior. Not all of them obviously. New homes have 6 inch walls and spray foam insulation. It costs down huge on heating and cooling costs. The new homes I have built are built way better than these old relics. These homes do a have a lot of charm to them. They are not as energy efficient.
Being a fan of midwest Victorian and Craftsman architecture, a part of me dies watching this. All of those homes were lived in by very hard working people at one time. I highly recommend listening to Mama by Genesis while watching. Goes along well with it..
I know, I heard that on the radio in the video, too. Ironic isn't it? DOW Jones hits a record high while Detroit and so many other cities around the country suffer miserably. I don't think it's just the Demicrats that caused all this to happen. It was everyone in America who decided to get greedy and take everything away from all of us. The real unemployment rate is somewhere closer to 45-50% of the country that is out of work. They use a job index which only accounts for the highest white collar jobs and leaves everything else out. You have to be super educated and supper greedy to work in the USA anymore. That leave most of us at the bottom either unemployed or working jobs that don't make enough to pay the bills. I have been around a great number of years and this kind of world had never occurred to me when I was young and just beginning to think about what I wanted to do with my life. I see Trump as one of the cruelest and most evil people who could have been elected President. He has no interest in this country, he has interest in himself and how terribly selfish and foolish he can be. That's a tragedy. We need good leadership in this country to get us out of this garbage dump of a situation and refocus back on the American people no matter who you are, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, European, Christian, Jew, Bootist, it really doesn't matter. In truth, we took this country away from the native Americans and now the government doesn't even care about those who's roots go deeper in this land than any of us. Money, greed, ignorance, and selfishness are what got us where we are now.
I can understand an abandoned and empty home but WHY destroy them? Break all the windows and tear them apart? Its like if something is nice it must be taken apart piece by piece and destroyed. People go out of they way and destruct. That mindset is hard for me to understand.
Well people who had a bad past grow up angry. They are influenced by the ones around them who also had a bad past. They don't know how to deal with their anger and no one is willing to help them deal with it so they take anger out on what's around them. It's just common human nature and shouldn't be blamed on the color of someone's skin rather on what the community has come to due to people not wanting to help them.
Nature destroying something takes decades and intervention like broken windows, people destroying something takes months or a few years. If those houses were completely untouched, even after a decade all you'd likely see is some peeling paint, if that.
That level of craftsmanship still exists. Although, it is only used in multi-million dollar homes. Middle class will never again be able to afford homes like that.
The corruption starts with the Board of Education and the Mayor and his cronies. All the $$ goes straight to those "special" peoples pockets. Not to mention the corrupt Unions played apart in the flight of the jobs. These peeps are greedy bastards. evil. Do a little history research on Detroit and you will see why it looks like it does today... Don't just blame the victims...
Miss Primrose Interesting information thank you. I bet it is very scary to walk down those streets and I bet there is not light in the night. God bless and protect everybody living in that crazy place.
lulsmokes I think Hiroshima is in better shape they decided to rebuild and take care of things and this neighborhood decided to drink 40 oz smoke crack and not work that's the difference
My great grandparents had a home similar to some of these homes on Detroits East Side in a beautiful tree lined neighborhood. It was a big two story tudor style house with beautiful woodwork and leaded glass windows and a huge front porch. I remember my grandma taking me up to Harper to Henry's drug store for sodas and candy and catching the bus to Hudsons downtown to see the Christmas display on their top floor, walking up to Chandler Park in the summer to go swimming in the pool and ice skating in the winter. When my great grandparents passed away my grandmother pretty much gave the house away to one of those places that was buying up all the houses and renting them out and collecting money off them until the renters just ran them down till they were no longer inhabitable. The house is gone now, torn down quite a few years ago..so sad!
After a sting of boarded up and torn down houses, a house stood alone, well kept up outside, well maintained lawn and shrubs, that's what I call "pride".
Born and raised in Detroit. This breaks my heart. These houses were so well made, beautiful woodwork, lead glass windows etc. Just destroyed! No going back!
Note that the little corner stores are all gone-closed and boarded up-no doubt no one will run one, since you will be robbed . This is really the problem-crime is rampant in these areas, so no one will invest anything in these areas.
Roy Hollins Are You effing kidding me? I put a lot of time on this earth and seen it all..I’ve seen black communities go through beautiful neighborhoods like Locusts and strip everything and leave it to die! Never has there been a more racist group. Privilege? BLACK PPL WANT,EXPECT THE GOVERNMENT TO GIVE THEM EVERYTHING AND IF THEY DON’T THEY TAKE IT! BLM are demanding ONLY blacks get free housing,education,ect from ALL white Americans!And the worst part is they have no shame and will deny these traits until death.Its beyond pathetic..AND they run like pacts of animals.Giving a good argument for lower brain activity..Of course not all are this way but most.Or they have a sickening opinion like you.Too stupid to think for themselves.And MARK MY WORDS..If this this keeps up they won’t have to worry about hating whitey anymore bc ther will be a race war! And you might look around you and feel safe bc it being mostly black (pacts) But drive down those roads baby,look up those mountains bc they’ll be some mad ass,gun packing ppl that daughters were victimized and rapped ,robbed by a “pact” of black men like I was and you’ll know what being only 19% of the country feels like
When your cars are made in Japan, South Korea, Germany, or Mexico, what did you suppose would happen to Detroit? A lot of these neighborhoods were at one time good places to live for the working class industrial workers. But when the jobs disappeared, the socio-economic structure collapsed, along with the family structure. But some people at the top got rich by making these changes, they live elsewhere.
Foreign competition came in the 1960's as well as corrupt politicians that started the downfall of this once mighty auto industrialized city, not to mention the 1967 riots dealt this city a black eye on top of it.
I'm thinking it was the 1986 Camaro that almost wasn't built for the reason that the labor union claimed it was "too difficult to build". I reckon union thuggery had a hand in the demise of the once-powerful Detroit industrial scene.
What's that have to do with treating your home like garbage and forgetting how to cut a lawn? Sounds like your argument means they have time in their hands.
@@drmartin5062 The people who had them built or moved in when brand new certainly kept the lawns mowed and etc. We know who they were. It isn't that way now. Someone else has moved in.
Wow! When I think of slums I think of old areas with cheap, crappy ass houses but some of those are big beautiful homes. What's hard to believe is that when people couldn't afford to stay any longer they just had to walk away from homes like that. The nice White 80's Oldsmobile at 0:45 was the best kept thing in this video.
They didn't walk away because they couldn't afford the homes. As told to me by a co-worker who was born and raised in a home like this, the whites were driven out during the riots of the 1960s. They packed what they could and ran ahead of an advancing mob of blacks and there was no reason to return. Home values dropped to almost nothing overnight. Nothing to come home to. Houses were ransacked, many were burned. The ones that were spared were immediately occupied by squatters and the original owners lost everything. Happened in South Africa as well.
@@Cynthia-fs4vi thats not really true. Yes the riots didn't help, and it deffinately encouraged thousands to leave the city, however white flight was already underway, people moving out of cities for the new suburban life, as this happened all across America. Also Detroit jobs were on the way out to foreign countries, the car industry was starting to decrease in Detroit fast, and continued to decrease for decades. Decades later even suburbs around Detroit started to decrease in population as jobs continue to decrease in and around Detroit. The population of Deteoit in 1950 was 1.8 million. 1960 it was 1.6 million. By 1970 it was 1.5 million. This shows that the riots did not actually lead to everyone in Detroit to abandon the city. Rather it was a constant evacuation of the city for decades. People wanting to move out, and no one wanting to move in. The population in 1980 was 1.2 million. In 1990 the population was 1 million. In 2000 the population was 951,270. In 2010 the population was 713, 777 and by 2019 the population was 670,031.
@Thomas Barrish St.Louis, Pittsburgh & Buffalo are a few other cities to name that were in similar situations. The industrial work force peaked in the 50s, but was already decreasing in jobs availability by the 60s to other foreign countries & other areas of the country. Some other cities managed to recover and find new types of jobs to replace the industrial ones, but ones as mentioned that were more heavily based on 1 particular industry just collapsed. Suburban growth was a double edged sword that crippled the inner cities. Suburban growth starting to take off in the 50s, new construction outside of the city. Larger land, quiet life style, and with the car culture also massive growth at the exact same time, you now could get from your peaceful suburban house to your inner city job almost as quickly as it use to take you from your city home to work. If the jobs never left, the cities would of managed to survive much better. It didnt help many black people came from the south to the north looking for more job opportunities which were already starting to decrease in inner cities for even white people. Racist had some impact, but it was 1 of many factors.
@Thomas Barrish NewYork City went through a large decline 60s-1993. Lost over 1 million people. But with originally 7.8 million in the first place, it still had 6.8 million. Eventually recovered, in 2020 it reached 8.4 million. It recovered, it was a different situation in many ways though. But black riots or black migration are not a single cause to create massive decline for white people, jobs availability is probably the number 1 factor to keep people in a city in the first place. NYC had massive banking industry to keep it going.
Decades of central planning and over spending, starting with Cavanaugh, was what really signed Detroit's death warrant. Then riots and government graft and sleaze through the 70s, 80s, and 90s just tightened the hand on the neck.
one of my best friends was a detroit native, who moved to socal in 1988. he refused to even visit his hometown because it was too heartbreaking to see the collapse. this was in the 90's, i can only imagine what he thinks of the place now....
I think you're doing a good thing by showing this on YT. People need to see how bad it is and how desperately Detroit needs help. The fact that this not a third world country but right here in America should wake people up.
It is like that because the business left. Detroit was built by the auto industry. Most of that is completely gone now. You have lots of buildings but nobody to live in them... It has nothing to do with politics or color.
Paul bro the city is GONE. It will never in our lifetimes be what it once was. Its better to just to move on than to hope for something that will NEVER happen again. The city is DEAD.
I grew up in Detroit in the 50s'. Had many big beautiful houses. Everyone in my neighborhood (Jefferson & Concord) south of Belle Isle bridge got along. Was a great city then.My parents moved us to the surburbs when I was 15. I didn't want to go but of course had to. It breaks my heart to see what has become.
Exactly. Its not a race issue tho. The automotive industry in Detroit is gone so there's no reason to live there. In the 1950's Detroit WAS the world center of the automotive industry. Thats gone.
Jason Bourne the irony of a white person saying this lmao these houses look like this because no one can afford to buy them, not because they were destroyed dumbass.
Not going to comment on skin color.People go where the money is at .The American auto industry left to avoid paying union wages+ the retirement and health benefit packages that the workers got.
Mikeel Kinzey I am white and yes I voted for Trump .I prefer not to get into an internet pissing match.I am sure the black folks moved in there after property prices dropped.If there were enough jobs there people still would be living there.
+zapfanzapfan. You think the people left for no reason?? They left due to something that's no less worse than a nuclear accident. If you disagree, then YOU live there.
Until I started watching these videos, I had no idea that Detroit, unlike Chicago and New York, had such extensive low density housing. In New York you see so many huge housing projects sometimes 10 or 20 floors high. Truly hard to believe what happened in Detroit going from about 1.9 million to under 700,000...
the down side of allowing us companies to us chinese slave labor is an end to the living wage in manufacturing centers like the mid west, south chi, south LA, rust belt.
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Yes but the Germans went to work, cleared the streets of rubble. Salvaged anything usable to make shelters. Went to work at any job they could find even if it meant working for the Americans, French and British. They got back on their feet. Does anyone see the people that wrecked Detroit building anything?
@@johnoakes3106 By 1960 or so, West Berline was rebuilt, clean and prosperous. Thanks to its market economy. East Berlin was rebuilt with cheap ugly concrete buildings, or was not rebuilt at all until the 1990s. Thanks to Soviet communism. A related stark contrast pervades the Korean peninsula.
Mark Berger , it is scary, because liberalism created this problem. 2 English words that are scary Entitlement, and Victim. These 2 words caused the destruction of this once Great City!
An automobile monoculture based on now-obsolete manufacturing methods ceased to be able to suppport a large population. The auto industry steadily consolidated and it was consolidating long before those areas were abandoned. There is no reason for manufacturers to build in the frozen hell of the Rust Belt when energy costs are much less elsewhere and they can buy a greenfield site in a state with no winter and no old infrastructure requiring very, very expensive demolition so most of them don't. Cities exist for economic reasons. If they diversify their business base they survive. If they don't, there is no reason to be there. All those homes are old and most of them were old in 1960. The solution is managed shrinkage to make the city fit reality.
I don't understand why these houses are abandoned... windows broken...all overgrown... people are living in some... what made all the other people leave and why are the people there now not taking care of their homes ???
What a sad situation, it's enough to make one cry, All these once beautifull homes Thank you for allowing me to see this, your camera work is very good, youve captured scenes ive only heard about, I had no idea situations were this terrible.
I can not stop watching these videos of Detroit. I keep thinking about how huge those houses were and how dreamy they must have been back when. It’s crazy to see it come to this. I might have to belt out a verse of Whitney Houston’s didn’t we almost have it all.😝😉😬😔😏
It's interesting to see how the abandonment of one or two houses spreads through the neighborhood. It doesn't seem to matter how good the housing stock was to begin with; good stock, bad stock, they're all abandoned.
What's ironic is how you will see here and there a block of decently maintained houses that people are obviously living in, surrounded by 10 blocks of rotting, empty shells. I don't know how the people in the decent houses can stay in that neighbourhood. Not a place to send your kids trick or treating. on Halloween. And from the toys outside looks like there are some kids there.
Charlie... This is so heart breaking. I really loved those 2-story bungalo's with the huge frony decks. How I wish more didnt see them the way I do. So sad my friend. So very sad.
This is all about greed , sending jobs over seas so rich people can have more stuff and vacations. No good paying jobs this is what happens and then top it off with racism. The companies want more money forget about people trying to provide for their families.
Keep it up Charlie....These were top of the line homes. Nothing wrong with them. Look at the architecture. Heh you would love to hear what my grandparents would say now. They were the 1890s -1907 generation.
Get out of here. It's called globalism. If automakers were still making most of their cars there, everything would be fine. You build a city around a couple major employers and then have those business's leave, this is what you're left with no matter democrats or republicans are in charge. Same thing with all the other rust belt areas where coal and steel employers have been replaced by imports and mechanization.
When you buy a new car and the CHECK ENGINE light comes on within a month of driving it off the lot you are not going to have repeat costumers for long. My dad took his 84 Chevrolet back to the dealer a dozen times trying to get that light to stay off and all they did was keep resetting the computer because they could not fix it. They even tried to fool him by removing the bulb from the dashboard. That was his last GM purchase.
Nothing to do with Democrats or Republicans. Nothing to do with the color of ones skin either. Detroit was thriving when the auto industry was huge there. As the industry slowed down and relocated to other parts of the country or failed the jobs dried up. You have a large thriving city that lost it's industry and you want to blame Democrats. Capitalism is a GOP/Republican thing. Capitalism failed in Detroit because they moved somewhere cheaper to build. Not rocket science but I guess you need to be smarter than a 4th grader to understand.
That is why so many homes and businesses are abandoned. 60% of the city's population dropped, and over a million who have lived and runned businesses there have move away leaving them all empty and to rot and fall apart.
There isnt anywhere in England that has abandoned homes and destruction to this extent of Detroit, especially since they are often big, beautiful homes that have become ghettos, and the destruction is all over Detroit. But there is some rough looking, run down cities and towns in England. I've been to Birmingham many times, also a car auto industry city, there is lots of abandoned factories, abandoned shops, abandoned pubs and some abandoned homes & empty high rise concrete estates (government housing), you see it as you enter the city by trains, it's like a ring of depression surrounding the city centre. Liverpool has its shitty areas to, the Anfield neighbourhood around Liverpool FC had lots of abandoned homes, not sure if it has improved today or not as that was over 10 years ago since I last seen it, but they use to have rows of abandoned homes on some streets, with other streets having 1/3 or 1/2 the row houses being abandoned. Burnley ain't pretty looking either. I'm sure there is other cities & towns that arent pretty that I just havent seen.
I said the same thing in another comment upthread. South Africa is running out of water fast, with a majority black population. Imagine what that will be like for the whites who are stranded there. They'd better start trying to get out right now.
I'm in southern Ontario and always wanted to see these houses in person. These houses built in the early 1910's- 1920's were built exactly when car manufacturing and Ford was taking off. Detroit was the same size or even bigger than Chicago. I think it was second after New York in population They are beautiful...and this dosnt even show some of the mini mansions of the time from the upper classes.
In 1955 the dream looks like it just have been firmly entrenched, look at the public frontage what a glorious wide open place this had to be for everyone but riots and white flight put an end to that.
Walk up to anyone on the streets here and ask them if they know who their Mayor is. These politicians need to only be paid on their job results. Name any other job where the boss is told what to do by the employees. this is American politics & it needs to be fixed, Actually, I think it is too late. I'm 51 years old I thought about a life in politics when I was 15 / 16 years old, However, I then thought all of these people are going to be put in jail or overrun by angry mobs and I wanted no part of that. Little did I know
This is terrible especially for the people still living there the value of their homes must be so low now they couldnt sell them if they wanted to. Are there any supermarkets still open with fresh food or just the convience stores?
Very few supermarkets exist north of the downtown core. Heck, you know it's bad when there isn't a Wal-Mart within Detroit's city limits. The nearest one is 12 miles outside of city limits.
I notice in these videos there's always a few home scattered about that are still lived in as people try to hang on, or, as you say, can't sell if they wanted to.
This is so terrible to see. All of these once beautiful and well kept up neighborhoods now decayed and in ruins. How could this happen to one of our great cities that when I lived there was the fifth largest in the country and was so proud of its accomplishments. I was born in Detroit and lived there until 1962. Never could I have imagined what would happen to the city I loved.
79goldmaster1 oh yeah!!! that's what Detroit needs!!! it's so weird huge houses big neighborhoods but only about 8% population! even the squirrels said see yah!!
It breaks my heart. So many beautiful brick homes with slate tile roofs, cut glass doors, maple, oak and teak woodwork, fine workmanship and well sited. They couldn't help that they are located in a sewer. On the lower east side, there were nice homes on canals, with docks and lake access. I was there in the winter, and watched 2 men towing a beautiful grandfather clock along the icy canal with a rope! Very sad.
I was born and raised in Detroit, and it breaks my heart to see these homes decay. Truthfully, most of these homes are too large to maintain for the average individual. All across Michigan not just in Detroit larger homes are boarded up and left to rot. Why? The cost to restore these homes is staggering and the size is just not feasible for the average paycheck with a 30 hour week.
Gloria Hanes I want to move there the houses look so nice I live in Florida born and raised the houses are to much here I can live in Detroit and live happy in a big house. My income is from online.
Every city has issues, but Detroit has areas which are beautiful. I would plan a trip to Michigan and check out the area yourself. Michigan is very affordable and the winters are mild. I moved back from Arizona as I was homesick for my birth state. Arizona is now polluted, over populated and crowded, and way too expensive.
Detroit has so many beautiful old abandoned homes, and so many homeless people. It is a shame that someone couldn't be given the house before it deteriorates so badly. I really feel for the people who are still eying to maintain their house in a block of empty houses.
Looks like Gary Indiana; West End Atlanta; Miami Florida; Philadelphia; Albuquerque NM. Several other cities too numerous to mention. Welcome to America.
Well, that's outside of the Amsterdam, Utrecht and The Hague areas. Cause there it would be more like 1,5 million. And in Detroit, houses like that are just a pile of bricks declining in value as we speak. So sad...
Flying, Charlie has a video of him entering a couple of the houses... It was dangerous in that he could have fallen through the floors as they are often rotted away or the ceiling falls in on him... Then, there's the danger of running into what I term a "feral, stray, human" inside one of them... The houses are stripped of copper plumbing and electrical wires and full of trash... It's nothing worth seeing...
Shame, people once took pride in all of those homes. Now it looks like very few get cared for. It amazes me that land was at such a premium in the city that these houses were built right on top of each other. It is nice to see some open space. Home owners should be able to buy vacant lots next to them from the city for a reasonable price and use the area for a garden, pool, or other out door activates.
When I was a kid we used to visit a museum called "the way we where" in a small town in england. Oh my what America was and has become! And the shit aint hit the fan yet!!!!!
gordon mathew: Berlin was captured by the Russians... They surrounded it and used far more explosive ordinance via artillery, bombs and mortars on that city than the rest of the allies combined... And left a good chunk of it in ruins for years. In fact 80% of the biggest battles of WW2 where the most people died was in the eastern front.
guess who: ....would you count Katyusha rockets as bombs? Lol. They had a crappy air force I agree but they made up for it with arty rockets and mortars.
guess who here's a compound noun for you.....pussunaculacommunistalazyshitzendunkoffens that means "person of color communist lazy shit dumb asses" who destroy beautiful American cities. Fuck off.......
@@thought-provokingvideos5464 Detroit's prosperity was based on factories related to the making of automobiles, factories built 1900-1929. When these plants reached their use-by date, they were abandoned and replaced by factories built elsewhere in the USA, or in northern Mexico, or in Japan & Korea. The reason was often the high wages negotiated by the UAW, and the fact that much of the USA is right to work country. In 1943, Detroit experienced a bad race riot. In 1967, it experienced the worse race riot in American history, which triggered a brutal exodus of Detroit's white residents. Everybody who could leave Detroit did so; hence Detroit's population today is about 1/3 of what it was in 1950. Detroit's white population shrank to about 60K. A majority of Detroit's population was made up of people on a monthly check from the government, or of people having neither jobs nor welfare. Lacking jobs and welfare, many Detroit residents turned to drugs and theft. Soon after the 1967 riot, Detroit became a crime infested hell. This led to a further population exodus. The number of abandoned houses and vacant lots soared. Many of Detroit's art deco skyscrapers have been abandoned since the 1980s. Normal economic life is not possible in a place like Detroit, where life and property are not secure. Detroit averages about 2 murders per day. Believe it or not, there are American cities that are even more violent than Detroit: St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans.
@@thought-provokingvideos5464 People were so desperate to flee Detroit's violence, drug addiction and property destruction, that they abandoned their homes and businesses. Abandoned real estate attracts vandals, arsonists, and copper-strippers. Soon houses fall apart and become completely unlivable. Blight spreads like a contagious disease.
I live in michigan and whenever me and my family go to the detroit zoo, i always see damaged houses on the way and its sad cuz they mustve been rlly beautiful homes back when people lived in them. Its sad to see some beautiful buildings fall apart. Some tht i saw looked lik it was damaged by fire
MASH MASH that’s what happens when the community becomes black..There’s the proof..What else does anyone want.Im sure the racist blacks will get pissed bc they’re DELUSIONAL BUT THERE IT IS PROOF POSITIVE
Richard Bouthot no no no Africans don't even act like that i worked with many of them as i do now and they come here to be prosperous other than getting educated.
Richard Bouthot no no no Africans don't even act like that i worked with many of them as i do now and they come here to be prosperous other than getting educated.
Although low-density residential developments are still declining in Detroit, many larger developments, such as historic high-rises, apartments, mansions and skyscrapers, are actually being restored.
