I went to Wilkins Elementary School, graduating 8th grade in 1956. At age 10, I started working on a Twin Pines Dairy milk truck on the way to sschool getting dropped off a block or two from school and running the rest of the way. I still have movie footage of my graduation from Wilkins. Great memories from that time in Detroit. Back then, every house was full and life was good.
I used to live in Windsor and work in Detroit. I spent some time exploring the abandoned areas of the city. Detroit was once so prosperous and it's very sad to see these beautiful buildings vandalized, stripped and destroyed. It always baffled me that the city did not reach out to recycling and repurposing companies. The banisters, moldings, woodwork and stonework in these buildings are historic and gorgeous. I'm sure many companies and individuals (myself included) would pay for an opportunity to repurpose and refinish these pieces and install them in homes where they would continue to be appreciated. Instead, they are destroyed by vandals, stolen by thieves, or left to rot. Let's be honest. The city had no intention to save that school or repurpose those lockers, etc, but they could have had a public auction. At least then the city might have profited. At the very least, some history might have been saved.
@@BongMilker2006 Yes. I was/am a Canadian citizen and I had a US work visa. I was working in a molecular biology lab at Wayne State University, and they were struggling to find qualified lab managers. I crossed the border twice every day and was payed in US dollars. (The US dollar was much higher than the Canadian dollar at the time). I watched the dollar closely and cashed my pay cheques in Canada when the rates were best. WSU payed their Canadian employees less though, so the exchange ended up not helping all that much.
@Eat Our Babies Bingo. It would NEVER occur to them to fix or salvage any buildings. All they know is destruction. Same in Haiti. It showed men, sitting on top of rubbles, waiting for white people to send them food. I asked my dad, why don't they go through the rubble, save the good bricks & wood? He said," they don't know how". I knew how, why don't they?
Nobody from Detroit can afford to do this. Trust me. Don't listen to what you see on the news. Crime has kill'd all hopes and dreams here. My day payed 100,000 for his house and when crime forced us out it was worth 4,000 in good shape. he had to give it to the city to pay the tax on it and someone moved in and burned it to the ground. Crack and ignorance killed Detroit. You would be terrified to be in these neighborhoods. That is why everybody left.
thats what im saying get contractor partners or trades schools to come in restore them and use as homeless shelters or transitional living getting people off the streets should bring crime down while occupying abandon homes
Unfortunately, the cost would be prohibitive. Hey, at least the scrappers are making a few bucks recycling metal, even though the methods ain't exactly legit.
Well your right.. this is a case where a private company is doing more to secure the community than the city. Danto is fixing a failure of the local goverment.
Ron it was and to some degree is still a beautiful city ravaged by population decline and "flight". I'm not sure there really is an answer as the city continues to decay and die even after all the different plans to try and change the path it's been on for so many years. Sad ..... feel for Detroiters they are still proud of their city and they are good folks.
i understood at one point,neighbors who would mow overgrown yards of other properties would get ticketed by the city.detroit worse enemy is itself.building inspectors,neighborhood directors all get paid but the volunteers do all the work.
I was there in 1988. Same old story. Detroit was a model of urban decay for the last four decades of the 20th century, and now two decades into the 21st.
why don't you research the cost of demolition? the equipment, the safety measures, the demo company's insurance, liability, the employment of engineers, equipment operators, equipment cost and maintenance, hauling, waste management, OSHA regulations, hazardous materials, there's so much involved, yet you sit there and type stupid things..
It's so sad how these houses are so old and were once beautiful homes that so many honest families grew up in. Now these antique houses are just absolutely trashed..for what? It doesn't make any sense and it's sad bc so many of these houses looked so unique.
What’s sad is that the houses were built to last forever too! They don’t make houses like they used to anymore…. Sad that Detroit didn’t realize what Gold they had and chose to destroy it to lumps of ash smh 🤦♀️
Maybe Danto should be Detroit's next mayor. To call it trespassing when you board up an abandoned building is ludicrous it's just citizens trying to help the city out and keep the children safe. It's a true shame to see all the blithe and destruction that Detroit has gone through.
TheChicagoCourier sometimes I think the gov ruined Detroit on purpose so they could level the beautiful buildings/get cheap land then come in and build ugly micro apartments 😐
My thoughts too! When I lived in Detroit and Highland Park i saw many buildings like that. They had lobbies that looked like the grand apartment buildings you only see now in movies. Detroit was one of the richest concentrations of upscale housing in the world.
I thought the same thing. I did a Google search and as of 2019 it still looks rough. It's really sad that the old beautiful architecture is left to rot.
I think the homes that can be saved should be given to families who would like to move closer to the School. They can take what they need, if its there, from the derelict homes, to help refurbish their new homes. Then clear the other buildings and have food allotments and wild and play areas. I love seeing Documentaries about Detroit. Its a City which failed because Humans shouldnt live in Cities....but instead of becoming a Ghetto its got the chance of becoming many Villages connected by Nature. What a wonderful thing to happen xxx
I wish i could move to Detroit , i would be so busy restoring houses, i restored 4 houses in South Tx, Windows, doors, floors kitchens etc..now im jobless, my skills are useless in Mexico..oh well, maybe 1 day i get a chance to go back to 🇺🇸, I'll definitely would go to Detroit to save a few houses
Danto Furniture is making Detroit better one building at a time. Giving of their own resources to contain the blight and prevent crime is the first step to improving a problem in Detroit. In many areas of Michigan such as Detroit, Flint, Jackson, Adrian, and other cities you can find abandoned homes and buildings. Whether the building sits abandoned or boarded up, it clearly sends a message to corporations to look elsewhere to relocate their business. Millions can be spent improving a city, but with abandoned buildings and homes the message is clear.
after following the Shea Show for a while I have come to learn more about what the real deal is about Detroit,,, and as for those houses not boarded up and being left unsafe, I blame all the so call Preachers that should be the neighborhood leaders, counsel-men for those districts, the mayor and the governor...
If our neighborhood were falling apart, I know we would get together and clean up and preserve. We wouldn't be stealing and gang banging, and looting, and hanging out on street corners making trouble. The city has been turned over to people that have never built any enduring thing or even maintained anything given to them.
I have always felt that way . No disrespect to the people who seem to feel that growing trees / crops will flow into waterways .I grew up in Detroit in 1956 .When people who moved out of a house left it - the trees grew just fine , with the changes of season - some of those apple and pear trees grew to over 3 1/2 stories . The peach and the plum trees did well also .And that was in yards with no home occupants . Big - thick heathy fruits .You don't need all of that soil chemical - they will grow well .Maybe some manure if you want with some organic skills and it will happen .To add to that ---- look at the freaking weeds ! They are a hint of the soils fertility.Plants are growing on some roof tops with no assistance . It can happen .
Instead of doing anything, they decided to close this school the next year, after this video went up. I can't speak for the houses, I'll go check it out tomorrow
This is very sad to see. The children’s nerves must be shot tryna get to and from school. I’m grown and haven’t seen a dead body outside of a funeral. These children run the risk daily on the path to school. Heartbreaking to say the least.
Options such as creating a code enforcement program in the city must be used (see code enforcement program on Fort Wayne Indiana website). Also the federal government has fund to rid blight (Detroit is receiving these funds). Tearing down old ruined properties is only a quick fix. The blight is not on the properties, it is the people blighted thru abandonment, neglect, discrimination. Establish training sites in this area to put those without college (even high school dropouts) to learn thru "Hands on Training". This area is a goldmine of opportunity to enlist/employ people that can be trained in the construction industry to: nail, hammer, saw, demolish, plant, bulldoze, operate cranes. If a building is worthy of rebuilding, train a man to shingle, plumb, cement, install, plaster, resurface, landscape these properties. It is a re-purpose of something blighted. Take this neglect and turn it into a place of training. It is what the federal government did during the depression by hiring people to build the national parks, dams, military installations and interstate highways.
Most don’t want to work. They’re used to govt money. They are not raised to do better. They are taught to take and get what you can and they deserve it.
@@spikefivefivefive not at all. Relocating the factories to the 3rd world only benefits the greed6 corporations who don’t want to pay wages. How is the USA supposed to have a strong economy when nobody is paid enough money to buy products and services?
@@spikefivefivefive No. Corporations want to pay as little as possible. That’s why they outsourced abroad and not anywhere within the US. Unions just want the right to work. You still haven’t answered my question how can the US have a strong economy if nobody has the money to buy anything.
The pillaged school. Make all the sun accsessable rooms into greenhouses. Grow salads tomatoes and herbs. Have a Community Market once a week in the safest area inside or out. That building is beautiful.....(outside when possible). Some areas may be restored and used for storage or food prep or something! Dont give up on it. I LOVE Detroit xx
I take my head off to the lady who took the time to walk her kid to school I believe her name is Eva God bless you that is what being a parent is about and I know some people work but if you're not working you should do this or find somebody you trust if you're working
Imagine if some homeless guy was sleeping in one of those houses, only to wake and and find himself trapped because they boarded up the home with him in it.
Easy to go after the small fish for code violations, but what about DPS and their 100's of closed bldgs, are they not also in direlect conditions and eye sores??
The problem is you buy one of these houses for cheap. Than city by laws come around and do inspections, issue fines and notice to repair which can cost 20k to 40k. Not worth the stress.
This breaks my ❤️ for the children. A burning body! Predators! Those poor kids are gonna be traumatized forever, but that crossing guard was such a sweetheart and that little boy 😭 it's like nobody cares if it doesn't involve them, but Danto is a HERO. HE SHOULD BE MAYOR 👍
If the city would forgive the back taxes on these properties, more people would be willing to take possession of them. They can't tell you who owns them but they can tell you the amount of back tax owed for the same address.
city owns most of those building on Tax fruad . get rid of those scammers on city hall . including the police chief. to the Fire Capton ! they all in on it !
What happens when the bears and wildcats move into the new forest you will have created, by tearing down the buildings? I come from the sticks, so I know that predators come in all forms, even as wild men who live in the woods. Like crazy mountain people, they don't need buildings to be lurking in the bushes.
Sheri Quillen She’s too busy with the other three bitches in ‘The Squad’ ragging on the President (no, I didn’t vote for him). None of them have time for the important stuff.
They give these homes away for $1 and they will give you $5000 at one point… the homes have been foreclosed and they’re begging people to buy them in hopes of income from taxes.. they’re doing as much as they can to attempt to bring people in but nobody wants to invest in a single home because scrappers, squatters, and lowlifes destroy it right away… maybe if the entire neighborhood was bought and redone there would be a chance to get it done nicely but that’s a far shot
anthony rubio That’s completely false stop watching CNN. He’s brought back jobs for those people. He even gave billions to black business owners for a little head start. Keep voting democrats if you want more neighborhoods to turn out like this.
These abandoned properties are a treasure for scavengers. If the city marked houses for razing, people who want radiators, electrical wiring, old planking, used brick and more could buy a $10 dollar permit which permits them to enter & holds the city harmless to injury, disease, death or other side effects of scavenging.
Detroit will never get better as long as dummies vote dummycrap. Every city in America in which dummycraps hold office have extreamly high crime including murders, rapes, drug sales and abuse. Out of wedlock child birth / fatherless homes. Now that’s a fact
You imported scores of western-hating people who bomb your cities and rape women en masse. We all have our problems. I left Detroit for L.A. decades ago and go there only when I must to visit family in the burbs.
@Bill Williams Oh, your right, cuz you guys don't get college discounts, because your african american? What about all black university? Too bad your too blind to see there is no such thing as privilege.
Seems like all these HUMANS. Are living without that title because they are all in the same boat. My heart feels for all these people. I wish them the best.
@@bobby2pistolz854 President TRUMP just gave a few million for black schools. He is really trying. He does not know how it will go, no matter how much is given.
@@littleme3597 Exactly, not sure where this fuck came from, but i have a lot of black friends that proudly support trump. Has nothing to do with race but you have to put idiots in their place sometimes. Trump is the best thing to happen in america in decades, Unemployment for asian, black, and hispanics is the lowest it has been in the history of the US (for Caucasians as well,) middle class is thriving, and the border situation is already better than it use to be, and he hasn't even put the wall down yet
In the first story, I know it's a poor area, but the parents really couldn't raise 100-200 for the lumber and nails to board up the houses next to the school where the children were in danger from? Couldn't do a car wash fundraiser. I see it all the time for the football teams. I know it is the cities job, but this is a problem in many of these communities. It is always someone else's problem. A child could have been raped and murdered if the news hadn't come and I guarantee it would still be open if the news didn't come. Come on parents you see a need make a way. I think your pockets are your priority not your children.
Boarding up a house isn't going to do anything, since the boards can easily be removed. Some citizens burn down the shells of houses to get rid of them. This is more effective, as well as cheaper.
People in Detroit don't own cars! And people driving through the city don't want to stop their cars so that dozens of black people who need money can surround their vehicle! In fact, that's WHY those people DON'T live in Detroit in the first place!
Please Detroit keep fighting. Detroit has alot of potential. Detroit was once the fourth largest city in United States now the population is just barely that 700,000 one day this city will bounce back very strong and lot of people will start moving back to the city. But I know there's a lot of doubters out there but time will tell
Found my Detroit vacation housing by using DDOT and walking. It was wide open. Only the freight elevator was functional. Was a former brewery. Industrial relics upstairs but never crowded my indoor street legal dirt motorcycle practice. After I paid for it in cash. Yup, made the property agent cry and then praise Jesus. Did most of the repair myself. Paid for the waste disposal. Had live-in retired Navy veterans on the ground floor. They were building a boat to live on. After they floated to Ohio I swapped property title for river housing near Fort Smith.
I went to Wilkins Elementary School, graduating 8th grade in 1956. At age 10, I started working on a Twin Pines Dairy milk truck on the way to sschool getting dropped off a block or two from school and running the rest of the way. I still have movie footage of my graduation from Wilkins. Great memories from that time in Detroit. Back then, every house was full and life was good.
It was beautiful safe and white. No one should live there now. It's horrible
Didn’t it close down recently?
It looks like it but I don't know for sure. Why do you think so? @@untouchableraider1960
Too little, too late.
RIP Detroit.
Nah they have no choice but to come up.. like they say when you have been down so long.. you have no choice but to come up top! ☝️👆🙏✊✌️
Detroit has turned into the Congo jungle how can that be possible who dwells there you get it now
@@robertbalibrera2583 hit it with napalm
@@robertbalibrera2583 planned poverty
Wha da da da dang.....
Listen to my .40 cal go BANG!
I used to live in Windsor and work in Detroit. I spent some time exploring the abandoned areas of the city. Detroit was once so prosperous and it's very sad to see these beautiful buildings vandalized, stripped and destroyed. It always baffled me that the city did not reach out to recycling and repurposing companies. The banisters, moldings, woodwork and stonework in these buildings are historic and gorgeous. I'm sure many companies and individuals (myself included) would pay for an opportunity to repurpose and refinish these pieces and install them in homes where they would continue to be appreciated. Instead, they are destroyed by vandals, stolen by thieves, or left to rot. Let's be honest. The city had no intention to save that school or repurpose those lockers, etc, but they could have had a public auction. At least then the city might have profited. At the very least, some history might have been saved.
So you went to a whole different country to go to work?
@@LifesLaboratory intresting
@@BongMilker2006 Yes. I was/am a Canadian citizen and I had a US work visa. I was working in a molecular biology lab at Wayne State University, and they were struggling to find qualified lab managers. I crossed the border twice every day and was payed in US dollars. (The US dollar was much higher than the Canadian dollar at the time). I watched the dollar closely and cashed my pay cheques in Canada when the rates were best. WSU payed their Canadian employees less though, so the exchange ended up not helping all that much.
Mr. Danto seems to be the only one in Detroit who cares enough to do something. This guy should be the mayor.
@Eat Our Babies Bingo. It would NEVER occur to them to fix or salvage any buildings. All they know is destruction. Same in Haiti. It showed men, sitting on top of rubbles, waiting for white people to send them food. I asked my dad, why don't they go through the rubble, save the good bricks & wood? He said," they don't know how". I knew how, why don't they?
@Eat Our Babies .
No one should ever say anything to this man for closing up abandoned home. Trespassing, give me a break. Detroit is negligent
@President- Elect and not thanking whitey danto for his help. He shouldn’t help anyone.
I feel nothing for these people.. this is what they voted for..
Coleman Young was the final nail in the coffin.
@BruhTV You must not have known Young.
@BruhTV I must admit, he was nowhere as bad as killpatric
Thank god for Mr. Danto!! Praying for the safety of those children and more people to get involve to keep them safe.
Some of the schools have since closed! 😢
That school was a beautiful piece of architecture!
Love that city, totally heartbreaking to see this, sad ain't the word..
Detroit needs a giant roach bomb
Hey mane sup with da d?
Danto job well done. I support you 100%.
The city needs to make owners pay to have their own abandoned properties torn down...
AMEN, and also all these businesses too.
But look the other way when itcomes to DPS properties..
Nobody from Detroit can afford to do this. Trust me. Don't listen to what you see on the news. Crime has kill'd all hopes and dreams here. My day payed 100,000 for his house and when crime forced us out it was worth 4,000 in good shape. he had to give it to the city to pay the tax on it and someone moved in and burned it to the ground. Crack and ignorance killed Detroit. You would be terrified to be in these neighborhoods. That is why everybody left.
*those houses are not theirs, they went into foreclosure. the banks own them* *now. the banks are responsible for tearing them down.*
yeah im sure they have the money...
I live in Sterling Heights and I will buy my furniture from Donto now
Feel bad for you
Any white peoples live there?
Nice. ^ 5
@@RB-fb5jf of course white people live there
@@RB-fb5jf Sterling Heights nickname is sterling whites, and its population is like 80% white or something. So yes😂
I would love to see these old brick homes restored!
Me too
thats what im saying get contractor partners or trades schools to come in restore them and use as homeless shelters or transitional living getting people off the streets should bring crime down while occupying abandon homes
Unfortunately, the cost would be prohibitive. Hey, at least the scrappers are making a few bucks recycling metal, even though the methods ain't exactly legit.
Danto should be in charge of the city.
lewisner lol
Well your right.. this is a case where a private company is doing more to secure the community than the city.
Danto is fixing a failure of the local goverment.
Politics here are doing little to nothing about it so it’s good he is taking Matters into his own hands
I went to this school. 45 years ago.
city cant find the owner. but can find them to pay the Property tax ?
Or just take the property back for unpaid taxes.
Most of the abandoned property in Detroit is already owned by the city
These buildings were absolutely beautiful, what a damn shame!
Ron it was and to some degree is still a beautiful city ravaged by population decline and "flight". I'm not sure there really is an answer as the city continues to decay and die even after all the different plans to try and change the path it's been on for so many years. Sad ..... feel for Detroiters they are still proud of their city and they are good folks.
Give this man boarding homes up a medal.
i understood at one point,neighbors who would mow overgrown yards of other properties would get ticketed by the city.detroit worse enemy is itself.building inspectors,neighborhood directors all get paid but the volunteers do all the work.
So what do it anyway!!!!! Stand up take your neighborhood back!!
I wonder why things are the way they are in Detroit. Must be the people in charge.
I used to attend Wilkins elementary 1985-1988. That neighborhood was so beautiful back then. Unfortunately, Wilkins is now closed permanently.
Ain’t shit in 1980s Detroit beautiful
*God Bless that man seeing to the safety of the children!!!*
I graduated HS in Detroit 1980....it was the same back then. This is nothing new
I was there in 1988. Same old story. Detroit was a model of urban decay for the last four decades of the 20th century, and now two decades into the 21st.
All these vid's are 5 years old.
Where's the UPDATE?
google street view.. they went over most of the city in 2013, and again last summer in 2018.. any progress, or just fields and more abandonment?
Update: More blight. The Wilkins Elementary school in the video has closed and already destroyed by scrappers.
the same update they have for the Congo jungle still the same no intelligent life
yep and detroit is MUCH worse now.
Why does it cost 10.000 to demolish those old houses. Whoever is demolishing those houses is overcharging the city
It's the removal of the debris Ivan that costs so much.
How many houses need demolished in Detroit? Ill do it for $2k each and buy a home in Beverly Hills when im half done.
why don't you research the cost of demolition? the equipment, the safety measures, the demo company's insurance, liability, the employment of engineers, equipment operators, equipment cost and maintenance, hauling, waste management, OSHA regulations, hazardous materials, there's so much involved, yet you sit there and type stupid things..
These are old houses likely with lead and asbestos, plus there are many hazards like used heroin needles.
Why don't they just burn them down, then let nature go to work on the ashes?
It's so sad how these houses are so old and were once beautiful homes that so many honest families grew up in. Now these antique houses are just absolutely trashed..for what? It doesn't make any sense and it's sad bc so many of these houses looked so unique.
What’s sad is that the houses were built to last forever too! They don’t make houses like they used to anymore…. Sad that Detroit didn’t realize what Gold they had and chose to destroy it to lumps of ash smh 🤦♀️
The $10,000 to destroy a house must include lots of kick backs.
Yes - I thought you can fix the house at least all outside with the 10 gran
Not only will the government not help but they deny you the right to do it yourself. What good is a government like this?
they did help are u insane? theyve funded this city as much as they can but if the community dont come together and help themsleves also its a waste.
Well, they have to follow the law. If the law gets in the way, change the law. Then affordable demolition can be accomplished.
Maybe Danto should be Detroit's next mayor. To call it trespassing when you board up an abandoned building is ludicrous it's just citizens trying to help the city out and keep the children safe. It's a true shame to see all the blithe and destruction that Detroit has gone through.
Unfortunately no matter how much he does for them, they wont vote for him .
Would cost more to bored that up, WTF! Theres people who would demolish that for the fun of it
Moviemakers might even blow some up but the city just lets them cave in on their own to save money knocking them down while they are whole.
BOARD NOT BORED
That old apartment building in the last story looks like it was an incredibly beautiful building, much like many buildings in Detroit. 😞
TheChicagoCourier sometimes I think the gov ruined Detroit on purpose so they could level the beautiful buildings/get cheap land then come in and build ugly micro apartments 😐
'The Paris of the Midwest.'
So sad, so many of these houses still have such charm hidden visible behind the neglect and vandalism :(
My thoughts too! When I lived in Detroit and Highland Park i saw many buildings like that. They had lobbies that looked like the grand apartment buildings you only see now in movies. Detroit was one of the richest concentrations of upscale housing in the world.
I thought the same thing. I did a Google search and as of 2019 it still looks rough. It's really sad that the old beautiful architecture is left to rot.
Put up a fence to prevent stealing. Fence gets stolen! Lol
I think the homes that can be saved should be given to families who would like to move closer to the School. They can take what they need, if its there, from the derelict homes, to help refurbish their new homes. Then clear the other buildings and have food allotments and wild and play areas. I love seeing Documentaries about Detroit. Its a City which failed because Humans shouldnt live in Cities....but instead of becoming a Ghetto its got the chance of becoming many Villages connected by Nature. What a wonderful thing to happen xxx
you for got the very high crime
When I see this houses - I wounder who built them - and who lived in them ...?!
Was there a war ...nobody ever heard of???
My heart goes out to that mayor - that is one tough job that he has.
I wish i could move to Detroit , i would be so busy restoring houses, i restored 4 houses in South Tx, Windows, doors, floors kitchens etc..now im jobless, my skills are useless in Mexico..oh well, maybe 1 day i get a chance to go back to 🇺🇸, I'll definitely would go to Detroit to save a few houses
The problem is, you could have a nice house. But if it’s in a bad and dangerous area, nobody would want to live there.
you dont want to do that. the house will be destroyed and when i left Mi in 1996 men were raping men in detroit
Pack a .38 with your kids lunch.
Such a great human being boarding up and trying his best to help the, he needs to be our leader or mayor in communities.
Danto, you're a good man. Keep it up.
Danto Furniture is making Detroit better one building at a time. Giving of their own resources to contain the blight and prevent crime is the first step to improving a problem in Detroit. In many areas of Michigan such as Detroit, Flint, Jackson, Adrian, and other cities you can find abandoned homes and buildings. Whether the building sits abandoned or boarded up, it clearly sends a message to corporations to look elsewhere to relocate their business. Millions can be spent improving a city, but with abandoned buildings and homes the message is clear.
Thanks Danto do your thing
after following the Shea Show for a while I have come to learn more about what the real deal is about Detroit,,, and as for those houses not boarded up and being left unsafe, I blame all the so call Preachers that should be the neighborhood leaders, counsel-men for those districts, the mayor and the governor...
If our neighborhood were falling apart, I know we would get together and clean up and preserve. We wouldn't be stealing and gang banging, and looting, and hanging out on street corners making trouble. The city has been turned over to people that have never built any enduring thing or even maintained anything given to them.
Our government has sent billions of dollars to aid other countries. The folks in
congress are just in their comfort zone.
Give a black man a city and he will give you a pile of bricks. Give a white man a pile of bricks and he will build you a city.
agreed
You just said a whole lot of nothing...your clueless #FOH
I suggest you study a little more of the history of Detroit... wasnt such an easy financial fix
If you listen to this with earphones, dialogue comes from the left speaker, music and sounds come from the right speaker.
Danto is doing what's right, screw the darn authorities. They're the reason the city became this way in the first place
Raze it and grow food.
Personally, I'd use them as fertilizer.
I have always felt that way . No disrespect to the people who seem to feel that growing trees / crops will flow into waterways .I grew up in Detroit in 1956 .When people who moved out of a house left it - the trees grew just fine , with the changes of season - some of those apple and pear trees grew to over 3 1/2 stories . The peach and the plum trees did well also .And that was in yards with no home occupants . Big - thick heathy fruits .You don't need all of that soil chemical - they will grow well .Maybe some manure if you want with some organic skills and it will happen .To add to that ---- look at the freaking weeds ! They are a hint of the soils fertility.Plants are growing on some roof tops with no assistance . It can happen .
0:07 - 0:09 .... you can bet the classrooms in that school are constant chaos, every second of the school day. Ugh.
Instead of doing anything, they decided to close this school the next year, after this video went up. I can't speak for the houses, I'll go check it out tomorrow
What do you mean by "ill go check it out tomorrow". You live in the Detroit area ?.
@L K She prob dead now... sad.
9:40 "She has proposed legislation" Oh, that's what went wrong in Detroit. Not enough laws. Finally we have the answer. Ha,Ha, Ha.
The city abandoned the school then have issues with scrapers.
This is very sad to see. The children’s nerves must be shot tryna get to and from school. I’m grown and haven’t seen a dead body outside of a funeral. These children run the risk daily on the path to school. Heartbreaking to say the least.
Some of these old houses are so beautiful
Wilkins Elementary was closed the following year, in 2020 most of the vacant houses in that area have been demolished!
Options such as creating a code enforcement program in the city must be used (see code enforcement program on Fort Wayne Indiana website). Also the federal government has fund to rid blight (Detroit is receiving these funds). Tearing down old ruined properties is only a quick fix. The blight is not on the properties, it is the people blighted thru abandonment, neglect, discrimination. Establish training sites in this area to put those without college (even high school dropouts) to learn thru "Hands on Training". This area is a goldmine of opportunity to enlist/employ people that can be trained in the construction industry to: nail, hammer, saw, demolish, plant, bulldoze, operate cranes. If a building is worthy of rebuilding, train a man to shingle, plumb, cement, install, plaster, resurface, landscape these properties. It is a re-purpose of something blighted. Take this neglect and turn it into a place of training. It is what the federal government did during the depression by hiring people to build the national parks, dams, military installations and interstate highways.
Most don’t want to work. They’re used to govt money. They are not raised to do better. They are taught to take and get what you can and they deserve it.
The federal government gave Detroit funds to remove blight...Then the Federal Government (EPA) told them they couldn't dispose of the debris
@@dcg590 very true if you do nothing you become nothing they deserve what they get
How can a city be unable to find out who owns a house????
These gorgeous buildings with so much history being neglected is terribly sad.
Demolish the abandoned the houses and cut the grass.
my old 64 impala is my daily driver an ode to Detroit's heyday
Unemployment, car industry gone bad in the city. Sad!
Car industry relocating factories to the third world so they can pay the workers less for doing the same job
@@notmenotme614 - Thanks to the unions
@@spikefivefivefive not at all. Relocating the factories to the 3rd world only benefits the greed6 corporations who don’t want to pay wages.
How is the USA supposed to have a strong economy when nobody is paid enough money to buy products and services?
@@notmenotme614 - Unions drove the cost of labor up to the point that they sought cheap labor elsewhere.
@@spikefivefivefive No. Corporations want to pay as little as possible. That’s why they outsourced abroad and not anywhere within the US.
Unions just want the right to work.
You still haven’t answered my question how can the US have a strong economy if nobody has the money to buy anything.
" You get the government you voted for " !
The pillaged school. Make all the sun accsessable rooms into greenhouses. Grow salads tomatoes and herbs. Have a Community Market once a week in the safest area inside or out. That building is beautiful.....(outside when possible). Some areas may be restored and used for storage or food prep or something! Dont give up on it.
I LOVE Detroit xx
I take my head off to the lady who took the time to walk her kid to school I believe her name is Eva God bless you that is what being a parent is about and I know some people work but if you're not working you should do this or find somebody you trust if you're working
I meant to say hat not head sorry about that
Hahaha u got a detachable hed?
Lobe that movie
@@jeromerhodes6664 Thanks for lightening things up a bit, they always end up in a race argument, depressing.
Peace and love 313!
May God Bless and Protect this Man and his business. He does this with Good Intentions.
Imagine if some homeless guy was sleeping in one of those houses, only to wake and and find himself trapped because they boarded up the home with him in it.
I went to that school it's on Hamburg St and my teacher was Ms.Jackson I lived @12637 now it's gone
Easy to go after the small fish for code violations, but what about DPS and their 100's of closed bldgs, are they not also in direlect conditions and eye sores??
What a wonderful human being
The problem is you buy one of these houses for cheap. Than city by laws come around and do inspections, issue fines and notice to repair which can cost 20k to 40k. Not worth the stress.
Detroit 2020? Same thing applies today when this was filmed 7 years ago..
simple solution: burn down the house as a training exercise for the fire dept.... depri hauling can't be more than 2000...
Sell the 60000 piece of art that Detroit has. Maybe? Yes? 300 million at least right there.
This breaks my ❤️ for the children. A burning body! Predators! Those poor kids are gonna be traumatized forever, but that crossing guard was such a sweetheart and that little boy 😭 it's like nobody cares if it doesn't involve them, but Danto is a HERO. HE SHOULD BE MAYOR 👍
No me imajino vivir en una ciudad con todos esos problemas, ya me hubiera Ido a otro estado o otro pais
What a sweet kid worried about classmates! Kids really are the best humans before we poison them with our nonsense.
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It's very Sad. To see the city. Like
That. I can remember a different
City back in the day.
If the city would forgive the back taxes on these properties, more people would be willing to take possession of them. They can't tell you who owns them but they can tell you the amount of back tax owed for the same address.
city owns most of those building on Tax fruad . get rid of those scammers on city hall . including the police chief. to the Fire Capton ! they all in on it !
What happens when the bears and wildcats move into the new forest you will have created, by tearing down the buildings? I come from the sticks, so I know that predators come in all forms, even as wild men who live in the woods. Like crazy mountain people, they don't need buildings to be lurking in the bushes.
There already is predators lurking in these neighborhoods.. wildcats and bears are the least of their worries
Danto is a Legend
Danto you are a Civic Minded Businessman, good for you.
Why is it so difficult to see the real problem in Detroit?
A burning corpse still smokin away on the sidewalk as the kids trot to school...that’s terrific.
"Tryna get some help 'round here will help a lot"
So what are you doing to help the problem Rashida???
Sheri Quillen She’s too busy with the other three bitches in ‘The Squad’ ragging on the President (no, I didn’t vote for him). None of them have time for the important stuff.
The city should give the owners of these abandoned houses 1 year to fix the houses or confiscate & auction them off on the town steps
They give these homes away for $1 and they will give you $5000 at one point… the homes have been foreclosed and they’re begging people to buy them in hopes of income from taxes.. they’re doing as much as they can to attempt to bring people in but nobody wants to invest in a single home because scrappers, squatters, and lowlifes destroy it right away… maybe if the entire neighborhood was bought and redone there would be a chance to get it done nicely but that’s a far shot
@@VinnyGjokaj then the state & local government has to give incentives for developers to come in and build gated communities
Any properties that aren't in too bad a shape, offer the $10,000 to someone who can use the money to fix them up and move in?
anthony rubio That’s completely false stop watching CNN. He’s brought back jobs for those people. He even gave billions to black business owners for a little head start. Keep voting democrats if you want more neighborhoods to turn out like this.
But nobody wants it due to the area
These abandoned properties are a treasure for scavengers. If the city marked houses for razing, people who want radiators, electrical wiring, old planking, used brick and more could buy a $10 dollar permit which permits them to enter & holds the city harmless to injury, disease, death or other side effects of scavenging.
brick pickers/cleaners used to be popular in St. Louis in the 70's most homes were made with excellent brick
why this happens To america,supposed To be a healty country?i feel bad for this...instead making war help your country folks,kisses from belgium...
Because our inner cities are filled with 3rd world people.
Youll know the pain of Detroit soon enough.
Detroit will never get better as long as dummies vote dummycrap. Every city in America in which dummycraps hold office have extreamly high crime including murders, rapes, drug sales and abuse. Out of wedlock child birth / fatherless homes. Now that’s a fact
You imported scores of western-hating people who bomb your cities and rape women en masse. We all have our problems. I left Detroit for L.A. decades ago and go there only when I must to visit family in the burbs.
They Can Renovate and restructure that whole area. Detroit needs a Renovation and scrour that area completely of criminals.
speechless 😶
Remove crackpipe, then speak.
THANK YOU.
I wonder how that one white kid in the class gets along?
@Bill Williams Oh, your right, cuz you guys don't get college discounts, because your african american? What about all black university? Too bad your too blind to see there is no such thing as privilege.
Seems like all these HUMANS. Are living without that title because they are all in the same boat. My heart feels for all these people. I wish them the best.
@@bobby2pistolz854 President TRUMP just gave a few million for black schools. He is really trying. He does not know how it will go, no matter how much is given.
@@littleme3597 Exactly, not sure where this fuck came from, but i have a lot of black friends that proudly support trump. Has nothing to do with race but you have to put idiots in their place sometimes. Trump is the best thing to happen in america in decades, Unemployment for asian, black, and hispanics is the lowest it has been in the history of the US (for Caucasians as well,) middle class is thriving, and the border situation is already better than it use to be, and he hasn't even put the wall down yet
Probably sets your priorities straight.
In the first story, I know it's a poor area, but the parents really couldn't raise 100-200 for the lumber and nails to board up the houses next to the school where the children were in danger from? Couldn't do a car wash fundraiser. I see it all the time for the football teams. I know it is the cities job, but this is a problem in many of these communities. It is always someone else's problem. A child could have been raped and murdered if the news hadn't come and I guarantee it would still be open if the news didn't come. Come on parents you see a need make a way. I think your pockets are your priority not your children.
Or get a bulldozer and level them during the night ?
Boarding up a house isn't going to do anything, since the boards can easily be removed. Some citizens burn down the shells of houses to get rid of them. This is more effective, as well as cheaper.
lewisner that's illegal destruction of private property
People in Detroit don't own cars! And people driving through the city don't want to stop their cars so that dozens of black people who need money can surround their vehicle! In fact, that's WHY those people DON'T live in Detroit in the first place!
You act like you just have a few hundred bucks around. Must be nice
Please Detroit keep fighting. Detroit has alot of potential. Detroit was once the fourth largest city in United States now the population is just barely that 700,000 one day this city will bounce back very strong and lot of people will start moving back to the city. But I know there's a lot of doubters out there but time will tell
those poor kids, you would literally grow up thinking the usa is a 3rd world country
Why don't they do something to help themselves
They put a fence up and they stole the fence LMFAOOOO
Long live Danto!!!
Found my Detroit vacation housing by using DDOT and walking.
It was wide open. Only the freight elevator was functional. Was
a former brewery. Industrial relics upstairs but never crowded my
indoor street legal dirt motorcycle practice. After I paid for it in
cash. Yup, made the property agent cry and then praise Jesus.
Did most of the repair myself. Paid for the waste disposal.
Had live-in retired Navy veterans on the ground floor. They
were building a boat to live on. After they floated to Ohio
I swapped property title for river housing near Fort Smith.