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Hello how are you doing? I hope and pray that you are safe blessed you your family, also always remembering "The Cross of Christ." Keep him first in your life. This video is making me want to cry because just by looking at the abandoned houses filthy trash everywhere. This isn't the way to live at all. I'm just hoping and praying that Detroit will get a brand-new Governor who is a real Conservative, who will send people to go into these abandoned neighbor hoods and tear down all of the old filthy abandoned houses clean up, then rebuilding the neighborhoods reducing crime stop and frisk, the citizens of Detroit deserve better.
0:17 this is so sad, each of these homes is beautifully designed, has unique features, gentle roof lines, welcoming porches, this neighbourhood would have been beautiful 50 years ago.
This is the result of Coleman Young and twenty years of Black Nationalism. They destroyed the greatest economy the world has ever seen. Detroit in 1960 had the world's highest standard of living and per capita earnings anywhere in the world.
This is beyond depressing, and I am haunted by the words my 83 year old aunt told me in 2011 right before she died, " I'm glad that I lived at the peak of this country's greatness and I won't be around to see the continuing decline."
@@timeisup6844 If you know your history well, you would understand that the US has always had foreign and domestic problems. Most of he 80's were not a particularly good time for the US.
My grandmother, mom and I were all born in Detroit. Mom used to say how beautiful it was back then in the 50's and 60's. Safe place to live, prosperous, and every summer we would drive up to Canada to see our aunts, uncles, and cousins. I remember walking up the street to play with friends, beautiful homes on a tree lined street, people sitting on their front porch wave as you go by. Breaks my heart...
I finally caved and left the city six years ago. Decades of watching it slowly die was enough for me. But thanks to you and your videos it helps me remain grounded and not forget...it helps me to continue praying for my roots, for Detroit.
After a tigers day game like 5 years ago I decided to venture into the crappy parts of detroit to see if it was as bad as I’ve heard/seen on videos and let me tell you it was astonishing. He must’ve been in the same area I went, and I wasn’t stopping at any stop signs at all. I drove a good 5 min at least before even seeing another working vehicle. I saw a pack of wild dogs, and that’s when I decided this wasn’t a good place to have any sort of car problems and I got the hell outta there. It almost takes your breath away it’s so surreal that this is in the United States. Shocking to say the least.
@@jaymesnin from the sounds of it, no vehicles at all for 5 minutes even the gangs are not hanging out there... Its just being reclaimed by wilderness slowly but surely.
There are many places that way. Among the opulence of D.C. and Chevy Chase there is unbelievable poverty. One time I went back to the East San Jose neighborhood I grew up in and what I started seeing caused me to put my car into reverse to back out as fast as I could. We were poor but not like that. And everyday I thank my parents, my family and God.
I stayed in Detroit back in 2009 and stopped somewhere between the Michigan Central Railway building and the River Rouge plant on a street full of abandoned stores and businesses, not a single building still in use. It was incredible. However I didn't stay long as I felt very vulnerable. Didn't see a single soul in that area - it was like something from an end of the world sci fi movie.
Detroit homes and way of life created the highest standard of living on the planet and made the USA the number place for quality of life. Is so sad to see how this has been destroyed. Bring on gentrification and jobs
I'm nearly 80 years old and in the UK and I find this all so sad. Is it likely that these houses were occupied by car workers? Did the bean counters shut down the factories or move production elsewhere because people were buying European or Japanese cars? I suppose there were many living in these houses who relied on the car workers for their living, and so it goes on. These abandoned houses paint a picture of how the whole world will be once humanity has died out because of the way it has been been made uninhabitable. I shall now go and give my wife a hug to cheer me up!
Heart breaking. Especially when you consider that this was once a thriving community with family’s happy to own their own home, kids playing outside, life growing with hopes. So so sad to see this. This has been a slow and painful death. 😢
This is what happens when a city is built on one product as in Detroit's case it was automobiles, and as such the sector employs the majority of the cities workforce, you also have the same thing in a mining town be it in the US, or elsewhere like here in England, once the auto firms move out of Detroit as they did, OR the pit closes the workforce either moves out or stagnates and there is little to no hope of their way of life returning as it was.
When you have a house or two on blocks that go abandoned, it's proof there's a problem. When you entire streets and blocks going abandoned, that's a crisis. Even with the stuff going on today, this shouldn't be happening inside America.
This is too sad! Those houses and neighborhoods were probably such nice family homes with gardens and flower beds, kids playing and riding their bikes, and dogs barking - unbelievably tragic. 😪😭😥
@@TheoneGodfather city mgmt was going into decline , my father retired from the city in 71 and got tired of the weather . 67roits didn't help , but he wanted to do his 25yrs.
Was born in Detroit 1967. Lived there my first 5 years. My grandpa was the Detroit Fire Chief. My dad went down to my grandparents house about a year ago and sent me a picture. Hardly recognized it. Broke our hearts. Beautiful houses at one time. Can visualize them remodeled. Would love to have a house like that now. People sitting on their porches, kids riding bikes, talking to neighbors, and the ice cream truck. What a shame….
Remolded? Need to raze entire sections of this area and pt up a gated community. The only way to save Detroit is to level these areas and start over. No section 8 housing.
@@sethpotter9592 “can VISUALIZE”. I understand there’s no practical way to “redo” them as standing. But it would be nice to take those floor plans and replicate them.
This has been going on for decades. My father was born in 1929 and raised there. For kicks, our family decided to visit his childhood home back in the early 1980's. Needless to say, the house was in disrepair and the neighborhood just wasn't the same. I can't imagine what it looks like now, or even if it's still standing.
As I kid in the early 70's many of my relatives lived in those neighborhoods that were kept immaculate. It is weird to think of how I and my cousins would spend nights sleeping on the upper porches, walk to the bakeries or little stores that seemed to be on the corner of every 4th block. We used to sneak around, open the little wooden doors and sift through the dirt under those porches and find old coins from as far back as 1910 as they were kept in good condition in the dry dirt. We figured that a lot of inebriated men coming home from the bar would lose their coins while pulling out their door keys and the coins ended up rolling through the slats in the boards. I would imagine that there are still a lot of valuable coins laying in the dirt under those porches even today.
The failure of the manufacturing industry in this city was certainly a big driver for these acres of abandoned homes - but another significant factor here is that widespread sprawling suburban development is not financially sustainable. Property taxes for detached, low density residential zoning do not cover the cost of maintaining the sprawling infrastructure they require. If you look up "Strong Towns", they have some fantastic data that shows why this kind of sprawling, car-dependent suburban development kills city finances, and why urbanization/densification is a much healthier form of city land use.
@@j3steven Faulty reasoning. You're essentially saying "a significant factor" for these "acres of abandoned homes" is that fact that they are "sprawled" out in the typical single-family detached layout, because that affects city finances. But the finances weren't affected until after the homes were abandoned. You're putting the cart before the horse. Dense housing isn't a defense against urban decay, just look at NYC in the 70s and 80s.
@@Justinw303 Three quick points in reply: (1) The city's finances WERE affected before the homes were abandoned, but just not as visibly. The influx of revenue from industrial sources kept the irresponsible urban sprawl afloat - until it didn't. In states where it is legal for municipalities to go bankrupt, there are instances where replacement of water/power infrastructure bankrupted the municipality because its suburban sprawl was unsustainable. (2) Ironically, the 70s/80s urban decay in NYC was largely caused by the abandonment of the city's good transit/walking infrastructure in favour of poorly planned car-dependant infrastructure, such as the bulldozing of dense neighbourhoods in favour of the installation of freeways. This was not healthy for the city. However, these denser neighbourhoods were able to bounce back in a way that Detroit's suburbs were not able to. (3) Single-family detached car-dependant neighbourhood layouts are typical in NA, where restrictive Euclidean zoning is pervasive, and medium density neighbourhoods are illegal to build. Thankfully, this is slowly changing. But this style of development is not typical in many other areas of the world, where cities have lots of medium to high-density neighbourhoods, which are built in more sustainable ways that incorporate active infrastructure and good public transit.
I was born and raised in Detroit when it was a bustling thriving city. The riots in the 60’s took the city right down to its knees. So sad to see the blight that was left behind…
In 2010 I drove through my mother’s childhood neighborhood in Dayton. The houses, probably 100 years old then, we’re still occupied but didn’t look much better than these Detroit homes. The electric streetcar wires were still in place overhead, but the houses were rotting. I look at photos made there in the 40s when it was thriving. Very sad.
We have people that care about Detroit in our state and putting the money where their mouth is.if you have never been to Detroit don't make assumptions as it's a dead ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GnFGYqj2UQAc.htmlity its far from it
My late mother was born in Detroit in 1921. Grew up in a big house like these were. My aunt stayed in the house till the early 80’s and told us that it was common for break-ins. She acted like it was as normal as a car driving down the street. So sad.
My parents were born and raised in Detroit. Lived there in the 1930s and 1940s. We have pictures from their time there. It was once a thriving well-maintained city. Their neighborhood was filled with homes anyone would have been proud to live in. Now, their entire section of town has been leveled. No homes, no buildings, just empty fields crisscrossed by unused streets. So very sad. :(
There's not much in America that makes me want to cry. But all the beautiful architecture in Detroit is one thing I want to bawl my eyes out for! 😢 This is arguably some of the best architecture in the country. When I was in high school architecture class, I did a rendering of a proud Detroit house.
@@maggiemae7539 life isn’t all about what something can do to help you, the lost of these beautiful homes is sad. It’s a reflection on society and choices people have made that impacted the life of a city.
There's some sections of Detroit where the city should just fence off whole areas and turn off all utilities until they can be bulldozed. Then they can forest or farm the areas, right-sizing the city to the current population. I saw it for many years, and there are many good sections, but there's also many areas that need to be re-purposed.
That's a great idea---I'm looking at this footage and thinking "Where the HELL are the City Officials, the Mayor, anyone in local officialdom that gives even one damn? Why not at least clear these abandoned houses out---and re-use what can be salvaged? Vintage woodwork, bricks, whatever."
I actually think that there are some places where they have done exactly that... but its expensive to tear down old houses and you need to do it right or they will polute the land... and you cant farm on poluted land or where there is a big ol pile of bricks ... not to mention those old brick buildings are not so easy to tear down because... well made of bricks lol.
I am speechless! It was like watching a horror film, such beautiful houses that are shadows of themselves. Please don't take offence of my question, but how did this happen and where did all the people go? Who ever is responsible for allowing communities to fall apart like this should be jailed!
What's the problem, he just showed you several hundred homes for as cheap as you can get. Buy an entire block and wall it off, your own private compound in Detroit. It comes with a life times supply of firewood!
Wow! As someone who is familiar with the vacant building issue, this video is what St. Louis looked like 10 years ago. While they still have a long way to go, St Louis has come along way, primarily through demolition.
This is what happens when you send manufacturing and other jobs to other countries just to save a buck. These neighborhoods were once alive and thriving. Wish we could see old pictures or home movies of these neighborhoods before the jobs went away. Pretty disappointed America! 😢🇺🇸
I really appreciate YTubers like yourself are going out there and showing the plight of American cities. From California to New York, we got a problem. We've all been duped into believing that by sending our industries and tax dollars to other countries around the world , we're doing a good and noble thing. Except for one problem. We forgot to take care of ourselves. We need to take our country back.
Sadly the argument that the problem is too many jobs have gone overseas is true but not simple to fix. My wife buys SAS shoes made in America. Around $170 a pair. Can families with kids afford these prices? We can't have the highest salaries and standard of living. Too many here still couldn't afford American made products. Most of the rest of the world for sure couldn't. The push to raise minimum wages etc has just caused runaway inflation. Is anyone really any better off now? We need well thought out solutions with cooperation between businesses and governments. We now just have politicians pushing soundbites with NO real workable solutions. But the American voters just accept that.
@@DrummerDanVa true but is it going to help to give up? I try to buy American made but buy less products. People will spend $150 to $300 on Chinese made tennis shoes. There are American made products that can be purchased that are better quality too. Every little bit helps. We also need to stop buying from these globalist companies. I'm almost totally free from Proctor and Gamble. I buy my laundry goods, household cleaning goods, bath, body and hair care and even facial and make-up products from a much smaller company. I found that their products are better too. Plus the products are delivered once a month. I don't spend anymore than what I would if I shopped at the grocery store. Usually $60.00 to $100.00 a month. It's a company called ( melaleuca). I think that's the spelling. Whenever possible, I buy from a local farmers market and I think in terms of what's in season. If blueberries are in season, I buy a bunch and freeze. Mind you, I'm a cheapskate, living in one of the most expensive areas of the nation. I've found great clothes and furniture at second hand stores. Even if they came from China in the first place, the second time around, China is out of the equation. I'm proud to say that I have never bought a pair of Nikes.
There aren’t enough people to fill the jobs we have open NOW. Without the Chinese and other countries making our stuff we’d be even more screwed. You want to make that problem worse?
Absolutely heart rending. All the families lost, our nation weakened and the very core of our society collapsed. May God help those that lost everything. 🙏
I grew up here in the 60’s and these homes were occupied then. After the riots and the white flight these neighbourhoods began to deteriorate, the copper scrapers and drug dealers moved in and this is the result. Industry and big business left. Then there were years of corruption in the democratic leadership and this is it, the death of a city.
I was born and raised in Detroit in the 50s and 60s on the east side. Those houses were so beautiful. Everybody had green grass back then families taught their kids how to act and to stay off peoples green grass. None of the houses we live in are there any more? It makes me cry when I drive through there long time ago.
This is so depressing, blocks and blocks of abandoned homes. Where I live there is the odd place that is abandoned but not on this level. So sad and I don't understand. Such beautiful little homes. Please stay safe Charlie.
While watching this video I can picture those neighborhoods full of life at a time. Neighbors visiting with each other while their kids were playing, new cars parked in the driveways, nice yards, clean streets, etc. It's a really shame to see those once beautiful homes in the condition there in now. Kind of reminds me of the old west "ghost towns" or american ruins.
@@joeblow9548 No i didn't vote for any of it. I don't live in Detroit. The people who did vote for the candidates who enacted such policies, well they got what they voted for. Sad....
My grandma, born in ‘36, recently passed, she grew up near Tireman, her and my grandpa knew Detroit in it’s prime. They raised their kids, my Mom and her brothers, in Sterling Heights during the 60’s and 70’s. I live in Windsor, Detroit is close to home for me, that’s why I watch this channel.
@@starwalker784 I would say, building freeways through existing neighborhoods was one reason it got bad. Everyone moved to the suburbs. And it got really bad like this because of drugs, IMO.
@@starwalker784 Let’s ignore the elephant in the room. We all know what happened to the once proud city of Detroit like in so many other cities. My parents grew up here in the 1940s through the 1960s. This was once a beautiful proud neighborhood. Winters with all the snow were awesome.
This reminds me of so many villages that are now entirely abandoned in Uttarakhand, India. Mostly because it's mountainous region with few jobs. The abandoned villages have now been reclaimed by the forest.
Bonjour je suis de France je vie dans un endroit magnifique en France 👍je connais pas Détroit mais ça me rends triste 😢 ou sont passés les humains ?? Dire qu’ils vivaient là était heureux mais pourquoi ce pays ou la France vas si mal !!! En fait je sais pourquoi !!!
This is sad, whole neighborhoods abandoned. I wish our government would invest as much money for our housing crisis as they send overseas to people that hate us.
Remember Trump was the first to sign something that would actually benefit POC when Ice Cube joined forces with him but they immediately got rid of him thereafter 😕
what a beautifil architecture. Not to compare to those soul-less buildings from today. It's a pity. And heartbreaking to see, what kind of effect wrong rulers can take. God bless you all!
But who is going to spend $50K fixing up a house that will only be worth $50K at most after renovation. And that assumes the buyer got the house and land for free from the city. Most persons who own these houses aren't going to fix them up.
@@TheOldTapeArchive I thought you never own the land in Detroit? You will have to fight the squatters because they are waiting for contractors to repair properties so they can move in
All the pipes and electrical wiring gets ripped out and sold for scrap. It costs way more to try to repair that than it costs to build a new home -- someplace where you don't have to sit on your porch with a gun to ward off thieves.
I think Detroit was the victim of competition and automation. Kia, hyundai, toyota, honda, nissan, etc. All took a piece of the pie from the big 3. Automation removed jobs.
It is a result of moral degradation and the glorification of gang/drug culture with a heavy helping of “white man bad” mixed in for good measure to avoid accountability. They destroy their own city and treat it like a dumping ground. I spent a lot of time in Detroit and witnessed it all firsthand. Most of the people who live there are far from victims.
@@buckmclean8391 Totally man. Those damn big corporations came in there and destroyed all these houses. After those workers lost their jobs those gosh darn mega corporations took mortgages out just to destroy the place crazy. A group of greedy mega corporations from Africa did this.
Kudos to you, Mr. Charlie four have travelled everywhere in America and even some bits of Canada to find the worst neighbourhoods and you make this home coming back to the 313 it’s almost heartbreaking but I fully appreciate your work. It’s almost an art to document all this.
We t on holiday to Dearborn michigan in 1978 from Scotland to visit an aunt and uncle. Their home was just like these abandoned houses, it was a beautiful house ,lovely street and safe neighbourhood, where everyone took care of their property with pride.The families gone now, my aunt and uncle are now cremated and buried in Scotland. I look at these sad sad pics and wonder if their street has ended up the same way.
The volume of neighborhoods like this in this once great city is staggering. They were such beautiful homes. It is by far the most depressing city I've ever been too.
One of many things I noticed was the lack of garages, did everyone just park their car on the street ? What is the explanation for all of these abandoned houses did a developer come in and buy the land and possibly something fell through and now the houses have just been left to ruin ? I live in a town where about 2 sold blocks were sold and the house were empty for some time, it does seem odd that everyone would agree to sell their houses and yet how to explain what has caused this ?
Grew up in a suburb outside of Detroit, born and raised. I hate seeing this, I know they were once beautiful homes. My grandmother had a house in Detroit. Looked like one of these. She came from Italy and bought the house in 1945. What a beautiful street it was. It was demolished years and years ago. Incredibly sad. ☹
I’m 65. My first Canadian home was in Windsor in 1958 (I was 2 yrs old - Irish born) Detroit was THE city to live in, when I was a kid! Best zoo, world class museums, incredible INCREDIBLE, music scene! It’s a heart breaker to see this sort of footage - and there is no shortage of it on RU-vid. Cleveland, Buffalo, Gary, Toledo - all the same. And the Canadian side is only a few years behind - Hamilton, Windsor, St Catherine’s etc. - all “rust belt” relics. This is what happens when our elected officials send middle class manufacturing jobs overseas. There is no longer a middle class to buy the goods that are manufactured. I now live in a high mountain valley in the interior of British Columbia. Politically it’s a “woke” hell-scape. But it’s natural beauty and abundance of fruit, veggies and hunting and fishing game, make it soooo worthwhile. God forgive us, and please don’t take revenge on our children and grandchildren, for what we have done. I’m blessed to have been given the foresight and brains to adjust my living circumstances according to the times. My prayers are with ALL those who come after “my time”. Peace
Opposite fact for me .. born in Detroit in 60 , when we crossed into Canada , it was like a different world , clean , friendly , expensive , tho .. good memories crossing the ambassador bridge, back to det in the tunnel . Used to be the only international vehicular tunnel in the world ...
I recently visited Detroit and drove around like this. The video is very accurate and there are many neighborhoods like this. I saw so many abandoned homes, schools, churches, and small commercial structures...just complete degradation. However, to be more postive. Downtown seemed to be doing ok (not great) but decently enough.
@@CBourn48223 Nah, the people who left were all the workers. They left and now live in places like Troy, or fancy and more expensive towns like Rochester or Birmingham. All the thugs are still in Detroit.
They departed because they sensed a disturbing change about to advance in their white picket fence neighborhoods. They were competent in their assumptions that foretold what their homesteads turned into in due time: The skeletal remains of Detroit's ravaged districts.
From a time when people would sit on the porch in the evening, know their neighbours, and had a job close by. It is sad to see those neighbourhoods go.
Its beyond sad that homes that once held families, and still could, are left to ruin. So many things to say about this. I grew up in Detroit until i was 10 and i still remember my beautiful street, Drexel off of Jefferson. If you google that street now, it looks like a war zone that has grown into a field, which is better than the destroyed homes. We were barely scraping by, but we did not destroy where we lived, we were renters and took care of it. I know some areas are being renovated. That is wonderful, but to get to the soul of the problem it is young people with no direction, and no father, most of the time in the home. Which often leads to restless reckless behavior.
@@PInk77W1 Rubbish. You and I know how these Detroit neighborhoods turn into tattered slums. God knows these liquidating districts are startlingly similar to the bombing annihilations in Germany at the end of WW2.
I always get greeted, "welcome to the jungle." No jobs, high crime, no family structure, no pride in home/property ownership, disrespect in others leads to the great demise of any neighborhood, city, and country.
Can anyone move in and start living in an abandoned house? Italy has a program of selling very old houses for 1 euro with obligation of some investment in repair. Is it a case for Detroit?
A buddy and I drove into an old dilapidated neighbor hood of Detroit out of curiosity. It was lifeless and abandoned. A police car zoomed up on us, slowed down and looked us over but kept going. I lowered my car window to take a few pictures of the windowless houses, then a different car started pacing us. Ever have the feeling that something bad is about to happen? The hairs on my neck were standing up. When we got to the next signal light, which had just turned red, we gunned it and sped out of there. That car accelerated too, but gave up once we blew through the next light and got onto a freeway on-ramp.
House designs show that these were great neighbourhoods but what is amazing are the cars parked outside an indication of people living in the midst of such a decay.
Why can’t some Americans admit that trump lost, he is a loser. His supporters keep saying there is loads of proof, yet still none produced after all this time. So what if the dems had cried foul after trump won in 2016, and the dems said for years that it was only because of ‘dead voters’ who voted for him. What a load of shit! Trump LOST, Biden won, now get over it and move on.
Having lived and worked in the general area for 40+ years, I'm no longer amazed by these images. It goes without saying that all the copper pipes, wiring, etc, have long since been stripped from these houses, but I'm amazed that all the plywood covering the doors and windows is still there with plywood now going for $40 a sheet.
@@joecausey8508 They have no need for copper pipes either, except to sell the copper for scrap to buy drugs. There's got to be a black market for plywood too.
@@Lisa-eo9gd I thought about deconstructing one of these and re-erecting it elsewhere. Would it be worth it, though? I was told bricks were just 60 cents apiece and the labor to salvage these would likely exceed that. Unless you had lots of time, plus the requisite skill, you'd be better off just buying new materials.
And some BEAUTIFUL brick structured homes at THAT. Man..come ON Detroit. I have two uncles there, well, one is in Southfield but...crime too bad. A waste is an understatement. This is just insane.
Even if they gave these homes away for $1 each and a grant of $250 thousand for renovations they could not get takers. The crime culture is too strong, present, and overwhelming. The politicians say we need some four million more houses, what we need are cities and states that work to keep manufacturing jobs onshore, expect violent crime to be controlled, and insist on the citizenry to be safe and prosperous enough to build strong families. But strong families were intentionally eroded to put governments in the role of mom and dad. People foolishly exchanged two parent households for welfare $$ and section 8 housing. Those who resisted the changes were marginalized and government power grew. Now most major cities won’t even enforce basic shoplifting laws, and they will look just like this in time if this is not reversed.
It’s so sad to think that was once home to someone. People went to work and came home to those places. Celebrated birthdays, holidays, cut the grass, shoveled the snow. Sad.
Those are TV shows, they portray a fantasy world. In reality if the house that I have 24 hour surveillance for multiple months. The house would be broken into four times a day. there’s 30 years of experience the back that up
Each house being lost seems a separate tragic loss. So many memories. So many generations spending what is most precious Wich is time. Look what happened now. If it was a person I'd be inclined to save it.
Its amazing, because many people in Toronto and all of Southern Ontario can only dream of owning a house. Yet in Detroit, houses are neglected and abandoned.
The jobs were lost a long time ago and people held on in those districts as long as they could. Then the Great Recession of 2007-2008 came along and took them all out. No way to pay mortgages, repair structural problems or even pay the utility bills. What are people to do but move on. Dreams need jobs. The jobs went to China and people there are living their dreams
@@slickdawg5976 - it’s probably the natural lifecycle of a city. There are ancient, once prosperous, legendary cities that are just empty dust fields now.
I was with my sons and we went down a street that looked like this. They go "what happened here, dad?" I said "I don't know but we better get out of here. They might think we did it."
It’s truly sad & it’s happening in a lot of places all over the country, it’s like you can see the ghosts of time past with children playing in the yards and neighborhood activities & today it sits in ruins, heartbreaking
Most people don't understand that these homes are abandoned and left that way because the city and county refuse to allow those properties to be purchased unless the purchaser pays the back taxes on the properties. If a house sits empty for 10 years, guess what? They're keeping tabs on every penny owed and they are not relenting. This problem is 100% created by policy by incompetent leadership that believes taxation is the fix to all of their problems.
It’s all about jobs. Giving homeless people these homes for free would do zero. Where would they get money for heat, electricity, water,food and maintain the house? How about taxes? Way too complex.
@@Jared40 Ha ha. Absent father, horrible parenting, genetics, low self esteem. No resiliency. Caught up in American entertainment and comsumerism with false hope. Weak minds. Mental health. 80 percent of people are miserable and cope with it smoking cannabis, drinking and drugs. Definitely not because of Republicans.
5:02 another beautiful row of homes, I know from other channels many streets on the old Detroit West side are being renovated, but to see these still grand buildings in such decay is just sad. It’s a metaphor for the modern USA.
There are not many areas left in the D, that look like what he shows in this video. For all the videos people make about the areas still slated for demo, very few go around recording the massive change Detroit is going through, in it's re-building. I get it though, right-wingers love to watch videos like this, and talk sht about my city. Too bad they are too afraid of their own shadow, to come into the city, and see that what Tucker Carlson and other far-right liars have been saying about the D, is just plain wrong. They all want desperately for Detroit to be a scary city, run by "demoncrats" that will never be any different to what it was when their parent, or grandparent lost a job at GM, or Ford, in the 80's and 90's.. That stuff is now all old history. conservatives apparently have no idea how to, or desire to change with the times.
@@jamesa7506 The reality is, Detroit is about ten years behind Pittsburg, in it's total re-birth. and it's a good half a decade into the ten. Anybody who's honest, and who's been around the city enough to know better, knows Detroit is quickly on the comeback. Right-wingers want to hang onto the Detroit of the 1980's and 90's. Those times are long gone. Detroit's rapidly going through re-gentrification. ...We all know what comes with that.
Imagine if this (or any city) cared enough to demolish their blocks upon blocks of empty houses, and then turn that land that land into farms to grow food for people. It's not like anyone's ever gonna live there again
Back in the early - mid sixties being from the Motor City was a cool thing. The music poured out to the nation and car manufacturers were always hiring. Great times never to be forgotten.
What is ironic is that by the mid-60's Detroit was already dying. It just took another 5-10 years before people realized it. The decline actually began in the early to mid-50's.
Pershing High School is the school that Charlie showed and Denby High School ( not shown in this video) were built at the same time in the 1930`s and are very similar in their layout and outer brick work design.
You can see from the sidewalks and tree-lined streets that this was once a nice area. The porches, brick peeks, etc... were gorgeous. What happened to this area??
I grew up in a close suburb west of Chicago. It was a great place, until 1968. Riots destroyed the down town area, businesses moved away. My parents finally left in 1975, after their house was broken into 3 times. Now the area is recovering a bit, but it took 40 years for that to begin.
We lived on Hubbard Street, two blocks west of Cicero Ave. Went to Nash Elementary School and later Austin High School. Lived there from 1958 till 1972. During the '68 riots we had hundreds of National Guards at the High School... Austin community was beautiful until the late '60's
Not sure when the video was taken but viewing on Google Maps street view quite a few of the houses shown on Tyler St. at 5:06 in the video have been torn down.
I grew up in Detroit. At the time it was spectacular. Please tear down the blight and allow us Detroiters to return home. I will be the first in line to move back..... once it's in better shape.
So sad! These houses were so beautiful at one time! I can imagine that those neighborhoods were gorgeous! All the happy memories that were made in these houses and neighborhoods . 😢
