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A neighborhood where we lived in 1968, located just north of Seven Mile Road, is now mostly empty fields and abandoned homes. When I first came to Detroit back in the 1960s, people used to talk about 'the inner city' as being an area of poverty and blight, but now the devastation is all over, including neighborhoods just a stone's throw from the suburbs.ĭavid and I live in Ferndale, just across Eight Mile Road, the dividing line between Detroit and its northern Oakland County suburbs. East Side, West Side, All Around the Town. What is most startling to us as we've driven all over the city is that the abandonment seems to be everywhere. My husband David and I have been touring different parts of the city and we've seen many empty areas, where there are few if any houses left. ABANDONED HOUSES, EMPTY FIELDS SO CLOSE TO THE SUBURBS One estimate stated there are already over 100,000 vacant lots, but demolishing more will mean there will be even more, a city with acres and acres of empty land.

I read somewhere that Detroit has more demolition companies than any other big city. Houses still standing are often surrounded by vacant lots, reflecting the large number of houses that have already been demolished.

In 2013, Detroit elected a new mayor, Mike Duggan, a strong advocate for using the power of local government to seize abandoned buildings and quickly find buyers and only removing those that can't be reclaimed.ĭetroit's problem is compounded by the city's large geographical size: 143 square miles, an area so large you could fit Manhatten, Boston, and San Francisco within its border and still have room to spare.

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Mayor Dave Bing, appearing on a local TV show on March 7, 2010, stated that the city had 70,000 buildings that should be taken down and he was looking for federal money to pay for the demolition costs. By the city's own count, Detroit has around 30,000 abandoned houses! The number of buildings that are vacant is even higher. Where once people lived in modest houses built close together, now there are wrecked houses and vacant lots.

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Abandoned Neighborhoods in Depopulated Detroitĭetroit is full of empty places that used to be neighborhoods.