Deconstructing Detroit: Putting People to Work Instead of Bulldozers

It took 250 years for Detroit to become one of the largest and most prosperous cities in America. It may take only a few years to put tens of thousands of its buildings into a landfill. To manage blight the City has bulldozed over 3000 homes and trucked them away in dumpsters. But there is a better way. WARM Training Center in Detroit is creating jobs by kick-starting a new deconstruction industry.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• deconstruction
• detroit
• grocoff
• warm training
• greening detroit
• urban decay
• demolition
• bulldozer
• landfill
• environment
• jobs
• job training
• michigan
• work
• unemployment
• abandoned homes
• vacant
• burned

[URBANOUTDOORS]

WARM Trainings Deconstruction Program is now called Reclaim Detroit, Check it out!

[claire1667]

It may take more time then machines but I agree. It's a new good way to deconstruct.

[Copperfoilhat]

Very smart solution for a terrible situation.

[siegholle]

Horizontal mining of renewable resources really makes sense - great vidoe

[majorkeybaree]

why not fix it? what a beautiful house :(

doesn't Usa have homeless people?

[WARMTrainingCenter]

Great Video, Matt!