Detroit proposes bulldozing 10,000 homes during recovery

[DetroitTigersFan187]

go ahead!!! tear down those pile of shit houses! as ij911 said less crime and itll also just make the city look better! just imagine seeing those eye-sores when you go to a Tigers, Lions or Wings game! thank god i live on Indian Village, a nice neighborhood on the East side of detroit!

:)

[MichaelCasanovaMusic]

Can detroit afford to do that?

[nuen8]

Demolishing 1/4 of the city, hello paychecks!!!!!! lol

[ij911]

It's about time. Flatten these houses! The crime rate will drop with less houses sitting empty! Greedy union bosses killed Detroit.

[cougarsstudios]

This is actually not a bad idea. Its better for the city to be making money off farming industry then paying to maintain the crap. And this way if they need land to build new houses if the city FINALLY increases in size, It can be easily done. Its about time because all these vacant structures make the city look horrible!

[ghostoferkrussell]

I think this is a good idea. Detroit looks worse in some parts now than Beirut did back in the 80's. It's a focking war zone. All those empty houses just turn into crack houses and junkie palaces. The night before Halloween, all the Detroit locals get together and burn down empty houses on "Devils Night". Yes. that shit from "The Crow" was REAL. St. Louis should consider this too - it looks like the siege of Stalingrad in some parts...

[sweettina2]

Dang Trav. I wish they could fight this.

I want to start teaching homeless people about "squatters rights"...I really think that info will come in handy for some.

Sorry, dont know how I missed your video this week. Sharing.

[Michigansnowpony]

If they are the houses / neighborhoods I'm thinking of, it would be an improvement.  Detroit has been going downhill for decades. My sister went to nursing school there in the early 70's. It was depressing even then. I don't think it's a bad thing at all to turn parts of Detroit into green zones of farmland. To me, that would be a huge improvement!!!

[DirkChesterfieldEsq]

Both of your topics are the implementation of Agenda 21.

[Z200a]

No, they're really not. You're just being nutty. Not everything is proof of wacky conspiracy theories. You think Agenda 21 made people leave the city by the hundreds of thousands over the last few decades? Because that's why there are now abandoned homes and empty neighborhoods: not as many people live there; they moved to the suburbs. No conspiracy made that happen. Free will, individuals acting on their own initiative is what made that happen.

[MissouriWatchman]

Farmland is what they will need to be able to feed what's left of their city. That is if they are thinking something is going to happen.

[cbr6864]

its crazy how many empty homes there are. in CA high desert there are tons of brand new homes just sitting empty. with so many homeless and losing their homes its a shame.

its starting to look like operation garden plot might be for real

[joel1923]

@cbr6864 Bull doze all of them. People need to move back into urban centers and use mass transit. Oil is too expensive and another energy crunch is coming. Urban renewal, apartment blocks, shorter commutes are the wave of the future. The suburbs are no longer viable(unfortunately).

[artnuwa11]

Condensing the population? As I listen to this I think of the map of "off limit" areas for human activity.

[gotsilver77]

and how many homeless to empty houses

[GamingExtreme187]

u make such short vids now loking for a partnership lol  el sucko le cocko of the corparate elite sell out

[psxwarrior]

If they try to ban fly fishing, just see what would happen. That's all I gotta say.

[dweber66]

change we can believe in

[Z200a]

The city of Detroit has been on a steady, steep decline for over four decades -- since the riots in the 1960s, and since the Civil Rights Movement caused whites to flee the big cities where they could find white only neighborhoods in the suburbs. This is just part of a trend that has been underway longer than most Americans have been alive. It's very sad, but destroying abandoned homes will be good for what's left of Detroit.

[joel1923]

@Z200a Detroit is lost cause. "buy-out" the residents? Where will they go? Who would want some those of people? The Detroit political class is one of the worst in the country. The voters of that city elected them-they have the government they deserve:corrupt,bankrupt, and useless.

[Z200a]

* Detroit is lost cause *

I already said the latest problems are "sad" and part of a "steep decline" that has been going on for longer than most people have been alive. If you want to add "lost cause," I won't really object.

* Where will they go? *

the idea of plans like this -- Detroit isn't the first to consider it -- is to relocate the residents to other parts of the city. But Detroit is surrounded by prosperous suburbs, too. They could go there.

[Z200a]

* Where will they go? *

Remember, too, that the people who own property aren't necessarily the problem residents. The drug dealers, criminals, gangs, etc. tend not to be the ones who still own homes. Believe it or not, there are good and decent people, even in Detroit.

[skyding8962]

I think its a good idea. Best to not buy a house there now.

[VGMMASSACHUSETTS]

it's really here

[RESET1776]

You know it's FAR from the case. But one would think that there wasnt a homeless person within 500 miles of there.