I wouldn't. Then you get to pay state/city taxes for those blocks and if anybody breaks into your house and gets hurt, per Michigan state law, you get to pay for their medical bills.
mike brabant you can’t really blame black people for that it’s just poverty if you look to Dublin and limerick in ireland Glasgow and Liverpool in U.K. it’s the same things but only whites
This breaks my heart. I love Detroit. These homes were built to house families comfortably. Neighborhoods were varied but everyone watched out for one another. Most of us shared what we had. This did not have to happen. These houses were effectively stolen from the owners/buyers. Drugs created an unending need for cash flow. We have always had drugs in this country but in the 80s, the government became involved, making profit off the addicts, sellers, & buyers. This did NOT have to happen.
Damn! I grew up at 6 Mile & Gratiot till I was 17, and remember the neighborhood changing in the mid 70's. House I grew up in was like a mansion, with so much character and built like a tank. Was shocked to see overgrown grass on Google Earth where the house used to be! Noticed how many other homes have vanished, which I would play at with my neighborhood friends back in the day. Even the street signs have been stolen!! We had our home broken into, twice.... while we were in the house!! We had to scare the thieves away!!
I wouldn't mind takin a trip the other way to take a look at the area in 1950. A family in every house, a big American car in every driveway, neatly mowed lawns, kids on bikes, neighbors chatting. Not such a bad life! Look at it now! That's progress????
I was born on the west side in 1983. Brightmoor. Looks similar to this area. It is sad. When I was a young knuckle head, I had fun slumming around, I liked the dark destruction. I was a dark kid. But as a man, even though there is a startling beauty to the bombed out city blocks, it isn't the kind type of beauty. It's awe inspiring, the depredations, the streets falling apart. But there is a terrible sadness at the waste of once gorgeous neighborhoods, there are so many ornate buildings that took thousands of man-hours to create. Detroit was once the 4th biggest city in the United states population-wise,...now its hovering around 20th.
Those beautiful houses are now too badly deteriorated and open to the elements for too long. Demolition and clearance is the only viable option. However the City of Detroit does not have the money to demolish all these abandoned homes.
+R. Pres. this used to be the place to live during the automotive revolution, all this was suburbs. All the jobs from GM,Ford, and Chevy just located in downtown detroit 5 mins away.
As a truck driver I have been in this city, and it's in bad shape. I cross the bridge into Canada and it's nice and clean. I'm not from Detroit and don't know what went wrong, but something did. I took some wrong turns there (got lost), before they fixed the mess on the crossing. Some places looked like a battle zone. I have been to many cities and towns across America and Canada and have never seen anything this bad. I blame the local and federal Government. Only they can mess it up like that.
Weird to think of those homes at one time when they were new. Families moving in, staying in the new house for the first night. The dad heading to work the following Monday at the auto plant. Living the American dream! There is a vid here called 'Detroit Portrait of a City' Shows what it used to look like!! Hard to believe it is the same place!!!
WyoNord there is. I'm from Detroit, it has a reputation for TONS of things- good and bad but it is a city that will forever be respected because of its history
its already way too far gone. and michigans economy is still shook from the recession (michigan got hit hardest) and fixing detroit would cost billions of dollars that the government doesnt have. if you want to fix detroit, make weed legal and use detroit for urban weed farming. then use the INSANE ammounts of tax money to help fix the infostructure.
+TheNauseator a plant shuts down, 1000people per shift lose their jobs/transfer. This is more than a few plants shutting down. Not every autoworker lived in Detroit either.
+Sue Churchill Whites moving out and taking their money with them after the riots in the 60's, after the whites moved out the rest followed, corporations, grocery stores, retail stores, not just the auto industry.
+Sue Churchill "Racism is uncalled for and ignorant." Is that the only fucking word you dumb ass liberals know how to use when describing alleged racism (realism)? "ignorant ignorant ignorant ignorant ignorant ignorant ignorant ignorant ignorant ignorant"... "How very sad that we are in 2016 and there is still this blatant ignorance" How very sad that we live in 2016 and we have grown adults who follow a cult religion called "political correctness" where they purposefully lie to themselves about the differences between races, and they do it for childish feel-good reasons. It's sad that this is 2016 and anybody that steps out of line with the official egalitarian dogma of political correctness is treated like a modern day Galileo. It's sad that we have such fake bitches like Sue that say stupid shit like "it's 2016 and we still have racism". Racism is and will always continue to be an issue between humans. It's in our DNA to automatically side or have more empathy for those who look similar to us. This is how the sub-species of humans evolved. It's sad that we have gullible cucks like Sue that buys into that disgusting "it's 2016, we should be progressive" hippy ideology. It's 2016. So fucking what? So since it's 2016, what you're saying is it is cool & hip in 2016 to delude yourself like a little kid into believing that all races are the same except for when it comes to skin color? I thought this was the age of science and accepting the truth for what it is, however unpleasant it might be. This is 2016, you're right. 2016 should be in an era where we reject emotionally-appealing, illogical, overly-zealous religious beliefs, LIKE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS. You PC cultists act JUST like the churches that scorned Galileo & Copernicus.
Hock Jenkem5 Just because you use big words and sound somewhat intelligent doesn't make it so. Racism is not"in our DNA", it is a learned trait. I do not practice trying to be"politically correct", I practice tolerance, unity, peace and love but you are so busy being angry over shit you can do nothing about you take it out on anyone who has their own opinion. Sounds like you've got some backed up cheese sport, you might want to go take care of that. Good day.
Racism isn't just ignorant, it's a sign of the lack of understanding of the natural world and natural law. Skin color correlates to pigmentation which is caused by the sun. People who live near the equator are darker. People who live near the poles are paler. Detroits failure is caused by capitalism.
I grew up in Detroit for the first 25 years of my life. I think they should burn the entire city to the ground, it would be an improvement. There are so many area's such as this, believe me. What you're seeing now is the cancerous husk of what was. I do remember when these houses had well trimmed lawns with children playing on them, and mom and dad were both there.
My dad told me he lived in Detroit LONG ago and he said Every Halloween Night Every People will burn everyone's houses (some) and they don't even give a fuck even if someone's in the house.
+Pm_gamer 101 (ProtoGamerGT) Devils Night. It was Detroit tradition and while not as bad still alive. Used to see the city in flames from any roof back in the day.
+Brennan Williams I guess you don't live in Detroit because every neighbor hood is bad; there are a couple small neighbor goods that are good but that's very little compared to everything else and downtown is nice but then again it isn't a neigborhood
Underdose, it is mesmerizing to watch. Where did all the people go? What happened here? Who owns the property now? So many questions, not enough answers.
To answer your questions, sdfrz... Detroit had been losing population since the early '60's and the 1967 riots didn't help... Then, the crash of the auto industry, city fiscal mismanagement, the crack epidemic, etc. all did their parts as well... And some of these homes may have owned by elderly homeowners who either wound up in nursing homes or died and left no heirs or the heirs didn't want the houses... As to "who owns them"... If the owner defaults on their mortgage, foreclosure ensues and the bank or mortgage company owns it... Fail to pay property taxes and the city or county seizes it.. If the property is occupied, there's an eviction... And the government doesn't take care of its property very well... And those residents left behind are stuck with worthless properties that they are still paying inflated property taxes on ( the taxes never "crashed" like the property values did )... Then, there were the "home equity loans"... But, if you watch Charlie's videos, you can see other streets that have no vacant houses while other streets are like the ones shown...
Hone architects should take a page from these homes. It's shocking so many of these homes are still standing. There are still beautiful old homes in Detroit, and it's still littered with good livable neighborhoods. I grew up on Eastwood on the east side. Area is a ghost town now, but it used to be beautiful. Love those old brick homes with the big porches. I'm proud of my Detroit roots - the greatest city around!
You'd think the increase in danger would actually turn around and decrease. No one wants to live there, people are moving out, abando's are what you see nowadays, and no one seems to be really out there. It's sad to see this happen to low-income cities in large populated cities. These used to be beautiful homes 60+ years ago, or even less. Now they are mostly dumps, but some of the houses still show wealth from people who used to settle there back during the war time, and the great depression.
and that "house for a dollar" plan is a joke. you buy the house for a dollar now it's your legal responsibility... you would have to completely renovate the house from the ground up, put thousands upon thousands into it, and then??? NO ONE is going to buy it or even rent it! who would??
It's actually worse than that. When you "buy a house for a dollar" you buy all the liability that comes with that house, such as unpaid property taxes. So a $1 investment could immediately put you $40k in debt that you'd have to pay off before you had a clean deed.
If this is the most dangerous neighborhood in Detroit, driving past people slowly with your hand sticking something out the window at them is probably not the best idea lmao
Really hard watching this footage since I have this vision in my mind on how things might have used to be. Automotive industry Of the. Big three employed many lives within a town then shit went bad, very bad. Jobs lost homes lost crime rate increased due to challenging times. We cannot even imagine what Detroit would be like if all this hadn't have happened. I don't know how things were or is now but seeing these homes sends a strong message to those in wonder.
For those who blame this on "capitalism"...... There have been and are plenty of cities that have been hit hard by deindustrialization but hardly any are in as bad a shape as Detroit.....look at Pittsburgh for example, they lost almost their entire steel industry decades ago, but the city government and people living there had this thing called " civic pride" and never let it get "Detroit bad"..... They retooled their economy and now their doing great again.........while Detroit has chosen to be a city of section 8 welfare leeches without any inkling of pride in the place they call home......
1:37 Holy sh!t! People in Detroit???? I would NEVER walk around ANY area of Detroit EVER. I'm not even frightened anymore, just sad. It's like remembering a family member who is now in prison. Detroit is just that, the parent you only once knew, the parent who is on death row, the parent who one day will disappear from existence, now only a thing of the past. Detroit is just that, on death row for the past 20 years, rotting away only to die quietly. It just makes me sad.
+WorldWhirl yeah it's sad but detroit will be back some day. it will take some time but this city can't get worst. i'm from brightmoor it used to be warzone now it's going a lil better and safer because of many residents constant efforts and hope. there's still much work to do though :/
These homes at one time had character I was looking at these hubless this person was driving down the streets, and it makes you wonder what kind of families live there where people happy did they have a lot of struggles, these homes were beautiful at one time, too bad they they could have been saved to help with the homeless people to help get him off the streets. Sad to see them in this shape.
The Mayor & governor should be ashamed, allowing these houses to stand. Many are rotted , gutted, mold, mildew, unrepairable. These grounds could hold new homes, gardens, local schools, communities. Someone is getting paid big $$$$ allowing this .
How can America survive when this is happening. What happened to all those families who are now gone? Where did they go, how are they surviving? It's a sad day for everyone, not just Detroit. At one time these homes carried a lot of pride and beauty. The character each one of them has is unique. I don't see how we can all survive.
Imagine living around all those beat up/abandoned houses? You can see the odd house with people still living amongst all of that. I can't imagine what that would be like for them..
I spent there about week, making photos. It's eerie scenery like from zombie movies. I felt sorry for those people they were mostly ok, non threatening me just poor and resigned. I hope Detroit will recover.
It's would seem scary to me having a nicely maintained home in between homes that are either burnt out or destroyed, no street lights, or the only livable home on the block
so sad to see an entire neighborhood completely destroyed like this, not even the worst part of south central LA looks this bad. house after house just totally gutted. and then there's a few decent houses still left among this mess, probably elderly and other people who can't afford to live anywhere else. they should just tear down the entire east side and make a wildlife refuge or something like that. this neighborhood is never ever coming back. :(
I followed some of this on Google Maps. If you go north or south a few blocks on Brock Ave from Linnhurst, you start seeing signs of life again. How bizarre to have that dead spot right in the middle of your neighborhood.
My dad was born in Detroit in 1940. Lived his whole life in or around Detroit. He always told me the east side was the worst--but when he was a kid, it was really nice.
I look up this area on streetview and there are cars and people about this neighbourhood? Has it been redeveloped or did i went to wrong area? I was Brock Ave/Linnhurst as seen in this video.
sad to think this was probably a very nice area once. those houses have so much potential. Shame the people who live in the area have just destroyed it
I used to live there but we moved and these people moved in and two months later I saw the news and that house that we used to live in was burned down it really is a dangerous place had a lot of bad experiences there .
Why fuck would ANY white family have wanted to stay in a city where violence was exploding and whites were being targeted for robberies and rape? My family was part of the white flight from this shit hole AND thank god they did leave. Why would my people subject themselves to the hatred if a people who rob, rape and kill their neighbors at unprecedented rates? That's STUPID.
Brandon Wright No one is saying that white people should have stayed, idiot. White people were able to escape while most black people were not. That's the point of his message. We have a system that was built to tear us down and keep us down. Now before your pale pink ass starts arguing because I know you will, numbers don't lie. Neither does history. It was always the plan since blacks arrived to this country to keep them "under control" and by keeping us weak thats how they still have control. Of course many white people continue to tell themselves this lie that "white privilege doesnt exist, racism isn't real anymore" and so on and so on. It's really quite pathetic. I know what kind of guy you are because I've seen your other racist comments on multiple videos. Yes, the internet is magical like that. So don't even try to argue that you're not racist because I already know its true.
Its ashame how some cities/neighborhoods look so bad. I don't see how the people that live in that neighborhood feel safe or comfortable with all the abandoned houses around.
Erica Davis Actually I'd feel less safe on a street with a bunch of burnt down houses. That means their is a trap house on that street that doesn't want competition setting up shop.
I grew up on the East Side. Very close to the neighborhood this guy is driving around in. You don't have to go back to the 50s. You can go back to the 90s and still see those neighborhoods in nice condition. A lot of nice homes there with a lot of potential totally trashed. As I have said before, it reflects the people who live in those neighborhoods as well as the city government who they elect. There has always been "ghettos" in Detroit. What you are seeing are not ghettos. You are seeing the remnants of a depraved & lost generation that lives there.
I used to give Sunday morning tours like this to visitors. They could not believe that anything like Detroit could exist in the US. I always carry a gun and had one in the vehicle. Detroit is so unsafe, I don't even visit anymore. Not worth the risk.
people who use to live here probably went to see Gordie Howe and Alex delvechio at the Olympia, Al Kaline at Tiger Stadium and Lem Barney on sundays at the lions games.
I just want to point out the fact that this is one neighborhood in one of the largest cities (in terms of area) in the U.S. Let's remember that every major city has sketchy areas. The eastside is horrible, no doubt about it, but this is not a good depiction of Detroit as a whole. Now that the bankruptcy is over, all the abandoned homes will be destroyed. This will create a canvas for more positivity like community gardens, art or new homes. CharlieBo313 is participating in what is called "ruin porn." There are plenty of people who like to put down Detroit and make it appear as if it is nothing but a wasteland. They are wrong! There's so much happening in Detroit right now, and there are such beautiful places. The architecture and history here are just amazing. Why don't you try showing Detroit in its positive light? To the people who said they were born here: I know it might be hard to foresee, but I think Detroit and even this neighborhood will flourish once again. You may not even see it in your lifetime, but don't throw the eastside in the category of "never coming back." Shame on you for not wanting your old neighborhood to thrive. I'm glad you're gone, you were the exact reason all of this happened in the first place. Onto the newcomers!
Then why are you watching "ruin porn" videos. There are videos of nice parts of Detroit, why aren't you watching those ? I have videos of nice areas of Detroit too. But not that I felt obligated to post those, I just did. That's what You Tube is all about people go to videos they want to watch. And trust me, the videos on Detroit's dilapidated areas are way more popular. I live in Detroit, you probably fled the city. There are some good things happening in some areas, but don't think just because the bankruptcy order say the abandoned homes must be torn down it will happen anytime soon. The past several mayors have been promising that but there's a lot of red tape and they can't keep up with the pace of abandonment anyway. I was born in New Jersey but raised in Detroit but I don't feel like I owe this city anything. Why is that so important to you. What I care about is my family and happiness. What happens to Detroit or any other city for that matter is completely out of my control, and out of your control too.
Damn, even the weather makes the overall atmosphere more depressing! Sigh... I hate the Midwest/East Coast (Southeast/Northeast) so much. I can't wait to move back to the Southwest where everything is alive and well and there's so much less shit to worry about!
Sad to see Detroit as a new Yorker living. On long island I could not imagine seeing this around here why can't they fix Detroit anywhere in the USA this is unacceptable.
At some point, there will be whole neighborhood blocks which are completely abandoned.If the city were to give away the land for free, someone might be willing to take possession of a whole block or multiple adjacent blocks, demolish them, and re-build a new gated/fenced neighborhood. It must be gated/fenced/patrolled/guarded, possibly with attack dogs inside, or no one will feel safe living/working in such an area. City services are slow and unreliable. Be prepared to handle emergencies yourself.
