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George ... happens all the time in blighted areas. The neighborhood goes down hill because the local economy fails and one by one the empty homes burn or become vandalized. Pretty soon the only occupied home is worth a fraction of what it could have been, but nobody wants to buy a house there. Generally the only home left is someone who had a job where the economy doesn't matter (fire, police, teacher, mail carrier) and they were able to pay their bills. Even a retried person might still have an income that's more than someone who is out of work, so keeps paying the bills... and staying in their home.... till something like this happens.

@@daleslover2771 Absolutely correct. I think what saddens people the most when viewing these videos are the death of memories. All the families raised and memories made in those houses. Kids riding their bikes thru pristine tree lined streets, Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc. All those little corner stores and neighborhood bars, shuttered. It really does make me depressed.

that's true but the worst thing is we have lost all respect for our fellow people , we don't care abut things we don't live in the problem is this is like a contagious plague , growing bigger and bigger. and faster and faster.

@@donpainter1 very true no one cares

They seem to burn shit as a pass time

I am really sad to these ruins but what is historic about a century old house? Where I come from, there are houses from the 3rd B.C. and most of the houses are century old

Some of them have been rebuilt in last few years

Detroit chose social values over prosperity, detroit got what it voted for, sorry

@@surferbri5346 , No; just the opposite.. "Prosperity" for the few who gut public works and those sending jobs away. It's unclear what you mean by "social values". but it is not contrary or detrimental to prosperity.

Greed at the expense of others and prosperity used to be a bad thing according to decent social values.

Very Sad. Such a beautiful and rich history only to look like a 3rd world country

Dayna Marie So sad😢

Many have moved out and out of state down south to states like Georgia and Florida. Florida's economy relies mostly on tourism and then agriculture. Florida could fall into a similar fate if the red tide epidemic is not solved that has been keeping tourists from coming, mainly to coastal areas and on the gulf coast. Many businesses there will close down and move out and the jobs will be lost causing many to leave their homes.

Thanks for helping to make Arizona blue

Best thing you ever can do besides moving to the South is change your voter registration from Democrat to Republican!

@@buckyoung4578, that's the dumbest f**king thing I've ever heard.

i know what you mean ...

bill fivehouse me too.

The music just adds on to it

I agree

And all of this was just in 2 to 6 year period. The Great Recession was the last cause of this.

A shiny Plymouth Fury or Buick being polished on Sunday while Elvis blasted from the radio.

Agree. Very sad to see and I also try to imagine and look up good old days (online only so far :)

That's the worst part. Those homes help generation of families that were the salvation of Detroit if they could have stayed. Unfortunately, that was not to be. I grew up in Cleveland, and the same rot has happened there. Almost a million people in 1950 and 388,000 in 2015. That's homes and infrastructure for 600,000 people that are no longer there.

@@sarjim4381 That is terrible.

@@sarjim4381 I've been to Rome. It's not unique. Just difference of times.

That's what happens when a city turns black

How 'bout now? I suspect someone could almost buy all of Detroit for a $20 bill.

Great point - I grew up 35 miles south of Boston, MA in a quiet area with mostly summer type homes/cottages. Pretty much zero crime but then one day a Hell's Angles like group rented/took over an unoccupied home & suddenly it was like living in hell. Gun shots, drugs, wild parties, loud cars, groups of bikers raiding the town, etc..

@@Random-rt5ec As someone who's lived like 10 minutes from a Biker Gang main HQ for around 10 years, in fact pretty much until they lost their war against the HA, I call bullshit on your movie scenario of bikers running wild in a quiet little town. The behavior you're claiming they did would've caused the population around to hate them, and by proxy bring a bunch more police eyes on them. That's not what these people are about. Rarely did we hear gunshots, and if we did we had no idea if it was them, or some kids in the woods shooting for the hell of it. There were bodies that did pop up once in a while in those woods, and everyone knew not to go mess around the walls of their property but otherwise you'd never know HQ was there.

@@thegreatape884 - i think random was referring to liberals when he wrote hell's angels like group

Yeah well I m sure your brother left out the part about the toxic water there that was killing people and permanently affecting the health of their children. Was a real big stink about it on the news maybe your news source didn’t cover the story….🙄

hanklin0707 I wouldn't say that but they were barely livable in the beginning

Which ones were maintained?

I agree.

A lot of those houses were in very good shape in 2009 and goes to shit from their. Maybe if young people would save these neighborhoods instead of paying rent to own nothing. It’s a shame.

I'm guessing some were insured and a fire just happened to burn them. Fraud ?

long haul trucker here. i have spent many layovers in downtown (hamtramck) waiting for USDA inspections. got talking to all sorts of folks that own restaurants, diners, work in small shops, other drivers. literally, what you wrote happens - the lowlifery gets bored the night before halloween and one year 600 houses went up in smoke that night. they call it "gate night". no idea where the term comes from...

Which neighborhood/street was it?

@@roadwarrior114 I sold that radio years ago on Ebay, but I think I remember Trumbull was the name of the street.

For decades there were so many people in Detroit and so few houses that where one lived and and whether they could get a house were real big issues. Now there’s so few people that they can’t even fill the homes available.

actually a beaver would be building something.

Not literaly 'animals' but the lowest kind of human capable of physical activity. Chieftp, also include ant hills and bee hives. Yes, these species are more organized and productive than Detroit.

Your right, I was insulting the 4 legged kind!

Terry Tucker I don’t understand what happened I’m so confused

That’s a crying shame man…

This is Americas future as a whole.

San francisco too

@@cyclops9125 All west coast cities for that matter. Clock is ticking...

I am sure you are blaming black people or Democrats well what about in places like West Virginia where they are in the same situation due to a lack of jobs and industry, do they get a pass because they are a majority white??

1980Triumph No you are getting it wrong. Yes Democrats destroy places. I’m from California and let me tell you that our idiot governor and democrats are destroying this state. In West Virginia there were less jobs because of Obama and pressure from the environmentalists.

West Virginia is now worse since trump got in ha ha

@@1980Triumph Thank you!

@@1980Triumph Drugs and poverty have no color or political view.

In the UK its the other way round. No matter what the local economy is like, there are no empty and derelict houses. These houses would be worth £250K - 400K here. A one bedroom apartment opposite my rented apartment sold for £251K , a 2 bedroom house for £475K.

@@lewisner Shows you what a difference in land space will do in the hands of greedy development firms.

@@cookieskoon2028 it's more that there are so many of us packed onto a tiny island and the Conservative Prime Minister Thatcher started the policy of selling off social housing which even Labour governments have carried on with.

Hannity has turned your brain to mush.

Liberal utopia.

Democrats

Who are we blaming it aint whit folks

Also what happens when good middle class JOBS leave. These neighborhoods didnt deteriorate in a vacuum.

@@gkelley77 You cant afford to take care of your home if there's nowhere to work.

You mean the white people? Maybe you just outright say it.

@@Kevin-yh9yt True a lot of people left the city but where did they go? To new clean safe suburbs. So many talk about jobs at the car companies but a bigger loss were the Auto suppliers.So many automotive suppliers went under or moved offshore due imports Metro Detroit had several large steel plants employing thousands directly and more indirectly. They went under due to bad trade policy.

@@bigboxes Okay then - the white people left and this is what happened ...

It's REALLY not that simple.

It’s more than that. The factories were moving out since the 50s. Ford hadn’t manufactured a car in Detroit since the 1920s. They just kept moving farther and farther away and now they are moving to different countries. Some of it had to do with the very high cost of labor for what is essentially unskilled assembly jobs. Some of it has to do with environmental regulations, which they don’t have in China and not many in Mexico. Some of it had to do with automation and no one can complain about that because the car itself was a form of automation, instead of relying on horses. But most of it that remained was about corruption, and the car companies would rather pay off the Chinese and Mexican governments than the one I Detroit, considering the cost of labor is so much cheaper, no one can strike there and they don’t get sued into oblivion when they accidentally (or intentionally) dump chemicals into the surrounding areas or the air. A lot of the factories in Detroit were surrounded by neighborhoods. There’s a lot that went into this.

Getting tired of these boomer explanations, there is a city near it in Canada called Windsor that was also the heart of car manufacturing. Wanna know why Windsor isn't like Detroit? Because there were no Africans there.

Corruption, mismanagement, and theft.

Very simple really Stage 1. close all the factories and lay off all the workers ! Stage 2. all the white people who want to work left town looking for opportunity elsewhere . Stage 3. Only Black people are left here because they have no money coz they don't save anything so they couldn't leave and anyway they don't wanna work and or too lazy to work so they got no where to go ! Stage 4. Society and the constructed environment starts to fall apart because there are no white people left to hold it together and fix shit ! (eg. Black people don't know nothing about repair and maintenance or putting it into action ) Stage 5. they start stripping the buildings of anything they can sell to buy drugs or guns . End result is Ghetto ! same as their home country ! Now watch the double impact of incoming Muslim Migrants hell bent on making sure America is exactly the same as the Filthy shithole they left behind ! And they call us the Infidels !

actually, this one goes to 11

Bradley Goodchild dude,look at Eastern Europe ,and some Asian countries

Detroit hit rock bottom. Then it discovered that rock bottom has a basement.

Maybe the votes are hijacked

Demonrats, of course.

Because these are uneducated people who don't want to work. They love welfare and know democrats will continue to give it to them.

Yeah cause we know there is no one on welfare in red states……..

not very slow, in 6 years these homes disappear

:(

The recession caused all of this. It would probably be a lot worse if Obama didn't bail out GM tbh.

We all know what happened. It started with mayor Coleman Young.

Democraps

Gage Spanny Hava nother tall glass o coolaid Gage!

Yomama didn't do anything for Detroit or anyone else in this country. LOL

These guys are 10x worse.

when someone does show up first thing noticed about 12 yrs ago were the staggering number of bodies recovered. gangs and others were using the abandoned houses to stash bodies.

homeless people use them and they start fires inside the home to stay warm during the winter. Some catch fire after leaving the fire unattended.

For decades, every Halloween was called Devil's Night in Detroit because kids went around burning houses down.

and one can only imagine how americans portray china using selected scenes

@@jeremylarson6267 China was one humungous backward poverty stricken Shithole till Bill Clinton in his wisdom allowed China to join the international trade system without policing the Gangster government , and like everything else in the modern world China contributed nothing but able to then get access to everybody elses market and then systematically gut their , manufacturing through state Capitalism and slave labor rates , brilliantly cunning .

@@bruceburns1672 -< this guy gets it!

Bruce burns Who knows? maybe they're right .... we're just too stupid to do the right thing apparently.

@@bruceburns1672 - thanks for stepping forward to give the american potrayal of china using a selected scene, as i mentioned

Very true.

not higher than NYC

When you pay unskilled laborers more than the skilled laborers of other trades and throw on great healthcare and a generous pensions (among other benefits) you will get a broad standard of living that is high among a lot of people. And they spread it around. But companies don’t like having to pay unskilled assembly people that kind of money and provide those kind of generous benefits, and therein lies the seed of Detroits destruction. They built things in Detroit because it made sense at the time. When it quit making sense, they moved that stuff out. And this is the end result.

@@TheBizziniss That sounds nice but its just not true. The worst cars every made were in the 70s and sadly they were made in Detroit by Americans. I think management started cutting quality standards which let to a takeover by the Japanese brands which were Munich more focused on quality. Its sad either way

@@juanme555 Oh yes Detroit’s standard of living was higher than that of NYC at that time. Feel free to do the research. I was surprised too.

There is hope and there is definitely change for the better. I live in the city. I have been through the best and the worst of times. Try you tubing Detroit come back. Every day there are new announcements. New condominiums. Companies moving back into the city. New retail and hotels. There is hope. But there are still problems. Crime, violence and poor schools but people are pulling together. We are used to these kinds of videos and we are used to outsiders being snide and condescending. Just watch. In five years we will be celebrating a great American comeback. It's already happening.

Six Mile There is also change in my small town of Fresno CA . A lot of new businesses like Amazon. Hope for better times in this beautiful old city.

Cali Bean Good luck to Fresno. The lesson seems to be never give up and dont listen to the trolls.

Cali Bean Fresno isn’t small (well compared to the cities in the rest of the valley) yeah I have seen changes for the better too.

Yeah thanks to the republican tea party

The problem here is they are now all moving in to the suburbs. Couple more years and we can take the city back as they will have all left for greener pastures to burn....

Why can’t we have the *white fight* instead huh?

BLACK SMACK VS WHITE FLIGHT

@@markr8755 Like Eastpointe. Eastpointe kept the East Detroit name for their school district and that helped to bring in Detroiters in the long run.

@@bluebo1212 Yep and now Eastpointe is turning in to Detroit and 10 Mile is the new 8 Mile...

What are you talking about? All that is here is one type of people; the poor.

dogon3 How did they get that way??? Who is making it worse???

Once corporations took their jobs South, thousands who could do so left, along with all their money and affluence. What's left are those so socially impoverished, they cannot leave. I knew old people who attempted to sell their homes, but the amount they could get was so little that they decided to remain in their property at valuations less than they had paid. They could not relocate anywhere else for that price and finally passed away; their properties finally falling into ruin.

Detroit isn't very diverse.

Bingo! See also Gary, Indiana, Camden, NJ and (especially) East St. Louis, Illinois for other drastic examples of this.

The good ole days of Detroit are over! No hope all though some companies did come back but going back to 1950s and 1960s will never reach the max

The industry didn’t leave, bad people moved in and ruined the city.

Detroit population began declining after 1950.

The homeless live in them regardless of condition. They call them abandominiums.

start what over?

enter.the.void.II its already dead

Dude, huge swathes of Detroit look like this and it just keeps coming. This video, which is good, does not do the extent of it any Justice.

real jungle animals too

It will soon become a jungle! Wealthy suburbs and downtown are doing well however! It’s Just the inner city like southwest are the poorest areas

UAW killed Detroit. Overpaid and underworked drunk/stoned people allowed to build shitty cars that Americans finally got sick of buying. Now the foreign owned auto factories are spread out over the US, so Detroit will never come back.

Dear wiibaron, After WWII Detroit had no competition. The factories of Europe and Japan had been bombed into oblivion. The US continued to manufacture with older technology. By 1970 Japan (and Germany) had built new factories with the latest technology. Detroit believed that it could continue to dictate what the American consumer would like in a car. Japan researched carefully what the American consumer was seeking in terms of features on his car and built a product to suit. In 1960 every car on the road was a Chevrolet. Today every car on the road is a Toyota Camry. That’s not the fault of the UAW.

@@georgesotiroff5080 Thank you. but they'll never believe it.

GET YOUR FACT'S STRAIGHT.... THIS WAS (DONE) AND ACCOMPLISHED OVER A CONTINUOUS-PERIOD OF TIME.... LET'S SAY (40 PLUS) OR MORE YEAR'S .... STRAIGHT-OUT (DIS-RESPECT) ANIMOSITY- VENGEANCE-HATERED AND A TOTAL LACK-OF -RESPECT FOR (HUMAN-LIFE ) . AND IAM TALKING ABOUT THE (VIOLENT) - CRIME RATE, PREDOMINANTLY (MURDER).... I THINK MY COMMENT IS ON WHAT YOU WOULD SAY THE (CORRECT-TRUTHFUL) SIDE .... IAM 66 YEAR'S-OLD NOW, AND STILL IN THE CITY.... AND I WILL TELL-YOU THIS SITUATION (IS) IT-SEEM'S-LIKE (GETTING-WORSE).... AND I ALSO THINK AND BELIEVE (I'M SORRY TO SAY) THIS IS GOING ON (ALL-ACROSS) THE UNITED STATES .... IT JUST HAPPENED TO HAVE GOT IT'S START-BEGINING'S RIGHT-HERE.... (GOD-SAVE-US-FROM-OUR-SINFULLNESS), AMEN.

Corporate greed, political corruption and foreign competition. Detroit was an auto industry might that went bust because of all of this.

California will now that many people are moving out and could happen to Florida if the red tide epidemic is not solved, and if Gillum is elected governor.

I've noticed the Boston-Edison housing prices are rising again, as well. For a few years, you could pick up a big house in Boston-Edison for pennies on the dollar. Now they're back to more what you'd expect based on the square footage.

Felix Linnhurst- 7 & Hayes 😔

Then you don' t get out much.

+City Expedia ur an idiot

Art, Music and History no it won't detroit is a special kind of shit hole its completely liberal run that's why it's like this

It's hell up here on earth. Blackey destroys everything he touches and creates a scorched earth. Look at Somalia?

MrRudyc what a paradise the leftwing has created and they want to blame the right. Hasn't been a republican elected in Detroit in over 50 years!

Jo Ubi no..... Fuck you

Dave Haskell 👍

nice. how bright you are.

Please tell me what he said that is racist?

Demonrats partying, having some fun when they get all lit up.

Danse liked that.

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the entire state of michigan isn't worth $20 billion!

I've heard and read so much about it online. Even bought two books, Devil's night and one really interesting great book about a firefighters life in the D. I was like a child on christmas day when I heard my first real time Box Alarm on the radio/webb and quickly figured out where it was on google maps. Without any search engine, thats how much I'd already studied the city through the webb. Now they do pretty much the same to register warcrimes in Ukraine

Remember that well. It began in the early 1980's the city was caught totally off guard. It took some time before they began to get a handle on things. There were TV film crews from as far away as Japan

I'm 66, remember it well. It was unreal to see it on the news every year, so appalling, so sad.

Watch out for Eastpointe ;(

Yea well its Detroit