East Cleveland used to be a thriving beautiful part of Cleveland, Ohio until these folks moved in and destroyed it. Everybody knows the story of East Cleveland. And now they are already complaining about gentrification and it hasn’t even happened yet after they are the ones that destroyed it.
I knew a guy, who in the 70s worked in Automobile Manufacturing as a lineman. His job, which paid him $16 an hour, was to break defective flywheels with a hammer. That was a lot of money and could afford him a nice home. These abandoned places were once occupied by auto workers. 😢
Worked for a company that makes ball bearings for space x and a couple other well known companies pay starts at 17hr. 21 for the cnc milling I was doing... it's union after 3 months same pay with 5 hr day sat required
It's so depressing isn't it. That first house was probably built no later than the mid 50's of not sooner. I hope he knows to watch out for lead paint! Some of us remember when America was booming...the 80 yr old dinosaurs 🦖 that are STILL in office did this!!
It will need a fortune spent on it to be habitable, but be pretty much worthless when finished. So you will spend 100k+ and thats being conservative, to create a house worth 60k, which you will have problems selling.
They are mad the whites are moving in to fix it up. Crazy. But expected. No hope for these neighborhoods. My son is a real estate agent and he tried to get me to invest in Detroit years ago. I told him no way.
What a lot of people don’t know is moving all those jobs overseas hurt the entire state of Michigan. My dad’s family lives on the opposite side of the state from Detroit and there’s bunches of factories that used to make starters, alternators, etc etc that are closed down. It’s sad!
The auto industry leaving will decimate a city. My mom's hometown in WI had a GM plant and the city thrived. When the plant bellied up, it went to hell in a handbasket. Chains thrive there, but small businesses can't survive. No new houses being built, it's stagnant.
@@jaratoll8739 Then consider the analog industries to the automotive industry. You can see where a large portion of the economy came from. Steel, coal, wood, housing for the workers, towns for the workers, luxuries for the workers. It all comes full circle.
Reagan and the Bush's in particular. And honorary mention to Bill for following convention and signing off on the NAFTA deal that George Snr. negotiated, and God only knows whatever else.
Geographically, Detroit is enormous. You could plop the entire island of Manhattan within its borders and have tons of room to spare. The problem is that in the early 1900's, Detroit annexed a bunch of the suburbs. This was fine when it was a rapidly growing powerhouse, but once it took a downturn, the city couldn't support it all. So now you have a city that was planned for three million citizens, maxed out at just over two million, and is now around 600,000. And it's absolutely devistating to see the state of all those tens of thousands of Victorian-era homes with full old-growth hardwood floors and trim. You literally can't build houses like that anymore
The problem why Detroit ended up this way, is not because of the suburbs, it’s because of the crime. As it became more uncivilized the existing snowballed. Federal funding was squandered by the crooked city council who blatantly funneled the money into their own pockets. That’s the story in a nutshell.
@@TracyBrashaw the city limits of Detroit are a little over 139 square miles. the cities of San Francisco, Boston, and the island of Manhattan in New York could fit into the city limits of Detroit. I grew up in Detroit.
@@LordSluggo whut up doe , it is what it is. Why Ford build plants out in the country and not near Detroit , why they building these battery plants out on farmland and not at the old packard site , for example. Can you imagine Detroit now without Dan Gilbert or Mike Duggan , at least Downtown is being improved, I guess .
Drinking my morning coffee. two minutes into this video I have all the motivation I need for full day of house projects 😂 Nick. Your comments and delivery are the best!
Gary, Indiana, East St Louis and Camden NJ might even be worse. At least Detroit still has an active business district. The other 3 appear to be just decay and rot.
I wish Mark the best with fixing that house up. It’s going to be one helluva task, but I give the props to him for at least trying to do something within the area.
By 1967, the US should have been focused on making small cars, not large personal luxury cars. The Arab oil embargo of 1973 was just around the corner. By the time people were begging for gasoline and parking their land yacts, the small cars HAD to be brought in from Japan. Today, 40% of all cars sold are Japanese! That is what killed Detroit -- waiting until it's too late! Even today, the "American" small vehicles are all imported -- the new Ford Maverick is Mexican built. The new Dodge Hornet? Turin, Italy. Chevrolet Spark? Korea.
Back then when a person graduated from high school anywhere in America they set their sights on going to Michigan to work in the car industry. Working for a car company like Ford back then in the 1930’s and 1940’s was like being a doctor today, people looked at you like you were ‘big time.’
Are the politicians really to be blamed though, or is the folks who keep voting for them? Detroit has been like this for decades. It actually looks better now than it used to. The people complain but keep voting the same way. There's a pattern to this. The same thing can be seen (to a lesser extent) in many other places like Oakland, Chicago, Memphis... It's pretty much the same thing in ALL of these areas, and there is one consistent common denominator that we are not allowed to mention on this platform.
Reading atlas shrugged, you imagine that she was exaggerating when she described once industrials towns now filled with primitive people, complacent in subhuman conditions, blaming the industry for leaving. It’s more true than she was able to convey.
The asbestos in the plaster is over stated. I did 20 years of American drywall. I also hung sheetrock . Ive torn out so many lathe and plaster walls and ceilings with a tshirt wrapped around my face… osha wants a 5,000 tent built over the entire structure to contain easbestos dust…. . Gut them, those frames are built with oak. And the studs go from the foundation to the roof. Im disabled now physically from brain injuries but i really would like to work with city planners all over America and rehabilitate these amazing old houses.
@ essentially its all gypsum. But a sheetrocker uses nails screws and tape measures and a drywaller uses a mud pan and drywall knifes, paper tape etc. Thus i did drywall for twenty years, i also was a sheetrocker. Framers just put up nailers for the sheetrocker. Essentially the same thing also?
I was born in DETROIT. This is an accurate image of MANY of the neighborhoods in 2024. Downtown Detroit just became one of the Elite 10 cities in Michelin Green to visit…but that is the downtown! These are the majority of actual neighborhoods that surround the city.
Being English I am shocked at how large these houses are and how large the plot is on which they sit. Gardens front and back all gone to waste....such a shame.
Young men "beefing" over women and "women creating beef" is in line with whatifallhist civil war concept. Young hood rat girls will wear an "old ex" getting shot and killed over her as a badge of honor.
Compared to the poor areas of Latin America, Detroit is nice and organized. If they fix the houses and clean the hoods a bit, Detroit will look better than rich hoods in Brazil.
I see a lot of comments pointing at different reasons Detroit took a dive. The one thing I've not seen mentioned yet is NAFTA. That was the nail in the coffin.
@@NickJohnsonif the state offered 50k per homicide to identify and lock up the murderer . That would change everything. People will turn in their own mothers. But the state don't want that because it's blacks killing blacks.
Mayberry to Mogadishu is the story of my old neighborhood. Highland Park was the Pearl of Detroit, neighborhoods were relatively safe and Kow Kow had the best Chinese food on the planet. Dad owned Bar on Hamilton, life was good before the dark times came along.
I lived just downriver from Detroit for three years. We took trips in Detroit often and I started looking into what happened. The 2008 housing crisis single handedly led to the dead houses in Detroit. The banks kicked people out of these homes and would have rather let the houses die than to work with homeowners so they could keep their homes.
@dingoledingus9039 nope, it was government regulations that forced banks to lend money to people who could not afford it. Government wanted to prove that more minorities were purchasing houses. Looked good to society and politicians to say more minorities are in homes than ever before, but was a policy disaster.
Lived and worked in the area (Warren, St.Clair Shores) back in my more youthful days. The average resident was kind and friendly but the weather and the crime ruined my experience. I truly believe that Detroit will only turn things around when the residents desire they’ve had enough. Armed citizen patrols and extraordinarily harsh responses to gang activity is a prerequisite to success. Allowing a small minority of people to dictate every aspect of the majority’s life has got to stop.
@cbodley4676 less jobs because of crime. Businesses will tell you that crime, energy, infrastructure, and regulatory policies determine if a business will locate there. So based on that a high crime area will not increase growth. Not hard to figure out.
I believe you're right, Detroit is going turn around in the right direction. Some Real Estate going for $1000 where else can you find affordable property like that
Tearing down and cleaning up abandoned areas is actually a step forward for Detroit. The next step would be to clean up any garbage remaining in the streets, etc. Nature quickly reclaims unoccupied blocks and creates fields, forests, etc. Makes total sense. If you pick up the trash, the area would look pretty nice.
It was intentional. Read the book "Slaughter of the Cities" to understand how mostly ethnic Catholic urban neighborhoods in cities like Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, Philly were ethnically cleansed starting in the 1950s. They had become too politically powerful for the elites.
I was born and raised in Detroit. It was a wonderful place up until Coleman Young became Mayor. Every bit of the current situation can be traced back to him. I left in the 80s and it's only continued it's decline.
Remember his speech? If YOU PEOPLE don't like what I'm doing with the city of Detroit, you can move to the other side of 8 Mile. Mass exodus to the suburbs. Troy was built.
@JMcHan-ri1fm when Coleman Young was coming into office he announced in his speech, If YOU PEOPLE don't like what I'm doing for the city of Detroit, you can move to the other side of 8 Mile. My dad had his business in Detroit, he sold it and moved to CA.
When i got married in 68 we lived in Brightmoor, and our kids ran freely between houses. Sit out late in the yards. It was great. So sad to see it now. But go downtown it has been restored and it’s beautiful.
@@kinkiesse7736 You need to do more research, Some of those entrepreneurs have gotten business loans through not only banks but Federal loans as well with rebuilding parts of Detroit housing areas. Most are going the apartment building refurbishing route. The brother in this video would have benefited from Kamala Harris's plans because he is striving to be a landlord with multiple houses possibly leading to more rehabs turned into rents.
My sister lives in this forbidden place. She lost her three year-old son here to cancer and now she’s suffering from cancer herself. I can’t get her to leave. She’s been there now almost 30 years!😬And I live in Texas! Go figure.! she’s a Democrat voted for Kamala and I am a staunch Trumpster have been since 2015. Both of us are retired military Air Force, but she still stuck on the plantation up in Detroit.!🙏🏼🙏🏼🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I hear you and see why you think you can justify that as a comparison, but it truly comes down to her mindset, not politics. She probably doesn’t see her worth or value and thinks there’s no hope. She could move to Texas or any other red state but if her mindset is off, she’ll just fall into another issue where you feel she could do better.
I win. Love your videos - documentaries. The neighbourhoods which died were probably vibrant once - where working class people lived and raised families. I grew up in a nice little place with white picket fences, rose trellises, carefully tended hedges and flower beds. I saw it recently after 37 years and it was dead - like a nuclear bomb site. Was very spooky.
Nick, I live in Michigan, but in St Clair County now. My family moved out of Detroit (8 mile and Gratiot area)way back in the 70s because it was already starting to get bad. It's pretty sad to see how bad it's gotten.
I was a child during the Detroit riots Our family moved away It still causes me sadness to see the destruction of a once beautiful city Unchecked violence to this day🤷Wth
Must be hard to look at how its gone to shit. I'm Emglish and get annoyed when I see a house I remember from my childhood being knocked down. Good luck mate.
I was watching a video about Detroit a few months ago and they were interviewing people from 6 and 7mile areas. One was a very young prostitute who was also a mother. She found a motel room for the night and said that at least her kid would be safe in there while she was out working. She hated what she was doing but didn’t see any options. I wanted to shake her and tell her that if she just grabbed her stuff and grab a ride even Walked heading North for just 2 miles, she would be able to get North of 8 Mile. These people are so trapped but it’s more in their own hands to walk out of there and change their circumstances. My mom worked for the Macomb County health and homeless. There are SO MANY options to help get people off of the streets. I volunteered there before and it is full of people who are trying to help. If you live around here, then you know EMINEM was not exaggerating with his music and the movie 8Mile. These people are not lazy (most of them) they just don’t know how to get out.
Yes, as a (former) Detroiter, I knew this. Every single home I ever lived in (with only one exception) has been burned to the ground or fallen over after the scrappers ripped the guts out of them. A real shame.
It is called urban prairie streets and sidewalks but no houses. Following this for years the abandon houses being torn down started out at 100,000. Colman Young was the beginning of the end
I grew up on the east side of Detroit near 7 Mile and Gratiot on Glenwood. Back in the 90s it was considered middle class families with houses on each block. Now its just vacant lots and maybe one house left on the block.
I was born in Detroit in ‘52. I grew up in Redford and I worked in the Ford Rouge plant making LTD rocker panels and mustang door hinges when I graduated HS. A lot of great music came out of that city back then. Moved to California in ‘77 to work in tech. Never moved back but visited while my mother was still alive.
Nick, idea for you. You could do a Google Streetview overlay on some of these abandoned roads next time you are in Detroit to show how they looked 10-15 years ago (perfect time to have used it here for instance the scene at 6:37). I suspect the comparison would often be quite shocking.
Exactly what I do on my channel and I get a lot of complaining for it in my comments because they say I'm not showing Detroit in a positive light when in reality I'm showing the real Detroit that needs the most help not downtown
The sad thing is, These folks will still vote blue. You would think after 60 years, You would want a change. I wish Mark the best. I think its great he is fixing up that old house.
they are brainwashed, is like if they signed a contract to vote democrat for years and years with no limit, the worse they are the more they vote democrat
BLUE or RED makes NO difference in this situation!! You have to have strong LEADERSHIP for your state to get things done. Trump ain't going to change a damn thing but make things WORSE!! He was President from 2016 -2020 what exactly did he do there, NOTHING!! He lost JOBS the first time he was President ( a RED change you wanted) and you see companies are already laying off or cutting jobs to prepare for those foreign tariffs that some US companies need from foreign providers to keep their companies running + he's burning all the bridges with the MAIN leaders of other countries. Our USA has too many FOOLS that talk out of their A** without knowing FACTS!! Wait and see what happens when the dock workers' union temporary deal made by President Biden expires on 1/15/2025 he will pass that off to (RED) good luck!! He has already screwed the steel union out of a GREAT DEAL with Japan that they wanted!!
It's such a damn shame what happened to Detroit and so many other of our other American cities...all because of bad govt/state decisions and choices, probably mostly by greedy and corrupt selfish people. You can tell the homes in Detroit were once great...big, beautiful homes that have been left to decay and rot. I love that some see potential and are doing the hard work, we need more of that across this country...I hope we have a shot at saving America now, but the globalists do want their NWO...we will see.
I grew up living all over Detroit, Finkle & evergreen, Lyndon & Meijers, Pembroke & Southfield. I went to BOW elementary on Pembroke. I've live on coyle..I loved growing up in Detroit. It's sad the politicians have let this happen only to watch the property values drop and then buying up those properties at a rock bottom price. I'm a builder, I could easily buy a home and move there, it's the gangs and crime that keep me away tho...such a shame.
Nick, I think the reason why your "Urban Apocalypse" videos gets so many views is that what you're showing is literally happening everywhere. Everything you showed in Detroit, Baltimore or Kensington etc. is happening all over the US but on a smaller scale and people have been watching it grow in their areas for 40+ years now. It might get a little better here or a little better there temporarily but everybody knows the system is going to collapse and there is no stopping it. Watching an empire rot from the inside out is interesting and gawkers like to watch.
@@ultimatevixn So what? There are good, hard working people literally everywhere and it means nothing. The forces that are causing this societal collapse are far beyond some guy working 3 jobs to support his family. People watch this stuff because they know all it takes is a layoff or a bad lab test at a doctors office and this could be them. They know that a Kensington or a Detroit is maybe a 10-15 minute drive from where they live and scares them but they can't stop watching it.
“White flight” as its called was a result of the Detroit Riots Jul 23, 1967 - Jul 27, 1967, the city has never fully recovered to this day. The big 3 auto makers moved out and never looked back. It’s a case of don’t bite the hand that feeds you!
During a very very hot summer police raided an unlicensed, after-hours bar, known as a blind pig, on the city's Near West Side. Composed mainly of confrontations between black residents and the Detroit Police Department. It exploded into one of the deadliest and most destructive social insurgences in American history, lasting five days. My mother lived through it, she recalled a Sherman tank being parked at the end of her street.
The beginning house would have been built probably before 1930, the presence of old wood lath indicates that. Plasterboard the precursor to drywall came out in the early 1930’s
So sad to see what would have been proud homes, with families & daily activities. If walls could talkl Living in England on the south coast, near London, this is totally alien to me.
@@timothykeith1367The war on black Americans, I mean the war on drugs is what caused this. Government sends in a bunch of drugs and Biden makes laws that started giving black men 15 years for a .5 while whites literally got no time at all.
@Eclecticompany We have gangs but they are just neighborhood gangs of teenagers. Most grow out of it and move on with life and some don't and get involved in organizations.
Nick pimpin’ in his 110k Grand Wagoneer. Glad you’re enjoying the fruits of your success. You deserve all of the good things that come to you. Much love from me down in Florida.
@@laylacicconi8447 Yeah, it seems like they make more money exporting and importing stuff made elsewhere and pass it on to the consumer and most those people won’t get a dollar per mile out of their vehicle, about the same cost and reliability as a Barbie Jeep , cost per mile
@ I work in the port of Los Angeles and we’ve been loading back empty containers for the 21 years I’ve been down there and long before that. It’s just sad. NAFTA ruined this country and no one has cared until Trump came into the picture. Prayers for this country!
Once the derliced houses are torn down and you have a big of green ontop, it actually looks quiet nice. You could keep doing that and turn the lost suburban sprawel into seperate villages.
How Sad to see so much decline! Some of those houses with large yards could be fixed up quite nicely with some assistance if the government actually cared. Best wishes to Mark, he should record his progress so we can root him on!
I was looking up one of the foreclosures that was on your video, it said the listing price was 99,000 but buried in the details was a requirement for $230,000 to close on the house. I guess the person owed more than the house was worth, I don't think that's ever going to sell
@kinkiesse7736 I don't know why that matters but undoubtedly the issue was in Trump's term they weren't tearing down any of the houses. That started to be done under Trump but has really improved the city as it's accelerated. They are definitely on track to renew the city. When you empty out a city block and it's clean of all the garbage, all of a sudden you have a marketable piece of land. In some context you can tear down a building and use the foundation to put up a new house without a permit or anything which saves you a lot of money. But that doesn't work in Detroit
I left Michigan in 1991 living in Florida now. My grandfather used to take us slumming in the 70’s showing how the poorer lived. Most the homes were decent but I still remember porches had tons of people just sitting there during the day. I was just a kid but remember this area. Sad now the houses all gone today.
This is 80% of the city. The numbers are mind boggling. 50,000 vacant properties. Population loss of 1.2m. Ancient infrastructure. Environmental hazard sites. Worst public schools in the nation and #2 in the nation in violent crime.
Beautiful Craftsman style houses left to rot. When I was a kid, Detroit was like a STRONG upper middle class metropolis with glass sky rises. There was a short lived sit com about 3 waitresses that worked in one. Whoever turned Michigan into what much of the cities are now should be doing time.
for some reason I feel it has some sort of magnetism. I like it for whatever reason. the christmasy houses, large open spaces, the trees, the inbetween creepy and storylike atmosphere. there's something there.
@@NickJohnson Glad to hear that Brother. Just saying because one of them may make a sprint for the vehicle. You’re doing important work and you mean a lot to a lot of people.👍
Yes, this is Detroit….but, in comparison to many years ago, this place is truly changing for the better! (A Lion’s WIN would be great for this city!-no pressure, though😉)
So true the crime rate has went down and homeless is under control unlike California, Los Angeles , New York , and lot more states with homelessness and drugs epidemic
I've been working in Detroit and suburban Detroit auto factories for years and EVERYONE of the coworkers I've ever had have the same thing to say when they're told to do something while they're at work, "THATS NOT MY JOB" and we wonder why most of our jobs went to Mexico and China.
I really hope Mark does well on his house. What a nice man.
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Every abandoned home is like a representation of a tragedy in someone's life. You can feel the sadness just looking at the houses.
You sure can feel it.
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Yea, the tragedy that they didn't pay their bills
The correct statement would be "the tragedy that they could not pay their bills".
Or are you implying that people are poor by choice?
I was thinking that too. Those broken houses represent broke lives, sad stories.
How come black lives matter didn't spend millions to help the black community rather than mansions for themselves
because they are not for black people, they are just using them and continue to do so as long as blacks let them which is probably forever
Black Lives Matter was a finesse and most of the money they got came from the hat people, it was all a front & insurance scam.
The question answers itself.
Why do you think!
East Cleveland used to be a thriving beautiful part of Cleveland, Ohio until these folks moved in and destroyed it. Everybody knows the story of East Cleveland. And now they are already complaining about gentrification and it hasn’t even happened yet after they are the ones that destroyed it.
I knew a guy, who in the 70s worked in Automobile Manufacturing as a lineman. His job, which paid him $16 an hour, was to break defective flywheels with a hammer. That was a lot of money and could afford him a nice home. These abandoned places were once occupied by auto workers. 😢
Worked for a company that makes ball bearings for space x and a couple other well known companies pay starts at 17hr. 21 for the cnc milling I was doing... it's union after 3 months same pay with 5 hr day sat required
Congress sold all those people out.
It's so depressing isn't it.
That first house was probably built no later than the mid 50's of not sooner.
I hope he knows to watch out for lead paint!
Some of us remember when America was booming...the 80 yr old dinosaurs 🦖 that are STILL in office did this!!
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@@wendyc1902 lead paint won’t hurt you
I'm glad you found Mark. He added a lot to your tour and seems to have a level head on his shoulders and a good upbringing. Best wishes to him!
Mark is a cool dude
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I would like to see what Mark’s place looks like a year from now and how far he progressed and fixing this house up. I hope he does well.
Best wishes, Mark
Guarantee it still looks the same
It will need a fortune spent on it to be habitable, but be pretty much worthless when finished. So you will spend 100k+ and thats being conservative, to create a house worth 60k, which you will have problems selling.
@@leesmusic1 It would have to be a speculator who comes in and fixes up everything. Which would increase property prices over the current market rate.
So much land people could ranch and set up community gardens and farm to table cafes ❤
My grandmother is from Detroit and she claims Detroit was the most beautiful city in America back in the day!
Mine too! From the pictures and stories I’ll bet it was amazing. It’s getting better though I still love it. Always have!
It was called the Paris of the Midwest long ago. How sad.
Shes correct! It was a beautiful and wealthy city due to the automobile industry. 😊
@@Shazzyhtown Until the big three started moving most of their operations overseas in the 1960's and 70's, thanks to the cheaper labor costs overseas!
They are mad the whites are moving in to fix it up. Crazy. But expected. No hope for these neighborhoods. My son is a real estate agent and he tried to get me to invest in Detroit years ago. I told him no way.
What a lot of people don’t know is moving all those jobs overseas hurt the entire state of Michigan. My dad’s family lives on the opposite side of the state from Detroit and there’s bunches of factories that used to make starters, alternators, etc etc that are closed down. It’s sad!
You are right. All the support companies to the automotive industry were huge.
Exactly thank you democrapts
The auto industry leaving will decimate a city. My mom's hometown in WI had a GM plant and the city thrived. When the plant bellied up, it went to hell in a handbasket. Chains thrive there, but small businesses can't survive. No new houses being built, it's stagnant.
Yeah look at Benton Harbor. Sad!
@@jaratoll8739 Then consider the analog industries to the automotive industry. You can see where a large portion of the economy came from. Steel, coal, wood, housing for the workers, towns for the workers, luxuries for the workers. It all comes full circle.
Make stuff here, not in China. What do you expect happens when you move all the jobs overseas. Both parties are guilty of this.
Reagan and the Bush's in particular. And honorary mention to Bill for following convention and signing off on the NAFTA deal that George Snr. negotiated, and God only knows whatever else.
The Chinese cost less andare much better workers so forget it
There’s literally almost no jobs left in America for American citizens . What do fresh out of hs people even do anymore. Just service work.
And pay way more unfortunately. People will not pay $5 for an item that sells for $2.
@@DMWBN3How about we let China make everything but our cars, tech, weapons and other important things.
If you ever become come a timetraveler visit Detroit 60 years ago, you will be beyond amazed!
First house is one hundred years old. Slats and plaster walls , real 2x4
🤔 lath and plaster ? Homes 🏡 where built by craftsman
Yeah, I was thinking it looked a lot like my grandma's house- 1920s.
Glad someone else noticed.
Lol yeah. I was like plaster, laths, true 2x4 framing... no one was building with that high quality in '94
Also not in 1973.
Geographically, Detroit is enormous. You could plop the entire island of Manhattan within its borders and have tons of room to spare. The problem is that in the early 1900's, Detroit annexed a bunch of the suburbs. This was fine when it was a rapidly growing powerhouse, but once it took a downturn, the city couldn't support it all. So now you have a city that was planned for three million citizens, maxed out at just over two million, and is now around 600,000.
And it's absolutely devistating to see the state of all those tens of thousands of Victorian-era homes with full old-growth hardwood floors and trim. You literally can't build houses like that anymore
If you compare Detroit to most other US cities, it is about as big as you would expect it to be--maybe even slightly smaller.
Detroit is a failed social just experiment
The problem why Detroit ended up this way, is not because of the suburbs, it’s because of the crime. As it became more uncivilized the existing snowballed. Federal funding was squandered by the crooked city council who blatantly funneled the money into their own pockets. That’s the story in a nutshell.
@@TracyBrashaw the city limits of Detroit are a little over 139 square miles. the cities of San Francisco, Boston, and the island of Manhattan in New York could fit into the city limits of Detroit. I grew up in Detroit.
@@LordSluggo whut up doe , it is what it is. Why Ford build plants out in the country and not near Detroit , why they building these battery plants out on farmland and not at the old packard site , for example. Can you imagine Detroit now without Dan Gilbert or Mike Duggan , at least Downtown is being improved, I guess .
Drinking my morning coffee. two minutes into this video I have all the motivation I need for full day of house projects 😂
Nick.
Your comments and delivery are the best!
Well, come on over. I got my coffee, looking at all the chores I need to do.
It sure is sad seeing those big, beautiful houses rotting in place. The loss of both the car and steel industry destroyed so many cities.
The housing crash in '08 didn't help either. Sad so many ppl displaced.
Gary, Indiana, East St Louis and Camden NJ might even be worse. At least Detroit still has an active business district. The other 3 appear to be just decay and rot.
I wish Mark the best with fixing that house up. It’s going to be one helluva task, but I give the props to him for at least trying to do something within the area.
The Riots of 1967 and ex-Mayor Coleman Young plus loss of jobs started the decline.
My dad was there for the riots. The stories he tells are crazy! Everyone moved to Livonia eventually. Sad!
My grandparents and parents moved out of Detroit in 1968 for that very reason.
@@sharonschauer3257That ground must be haunted!
Kwame didn't help... But I still love my city
By 1967, the US should have been focused on making small cars, not large personal luxury cars. The Arab oil embargo of 1973 was just around the corner. By the time people were begging for gasoline and parking their land yacts, the small cars HAD to be brought in from Japan. Today, 40% of all cars sold are Japanese! That is what killed Detroit -- waiting until it's too late! Even today, the "American" small vehicles are all imported -- the new Ford Maverick is Mexican built. The new Dodge Hornet? Turin, Italy. Chevrolet Spark? Korea.
This is what more than 60 years of one party dominance does to a city
Na, suburban sprawl and manufacturing centered economy.
and sub Saharans
This is what decades of terrible economic policy at a federal level that encouraged corporations to send jobs overseas looks like.
Soon Communist California will be just like Detroit, it's almost there now
Ain't no party like a DIddy party.
Can you believe in the 1920s and 30s Detroit was known as the "Paris of the Midwest?"
Yes I can believe me friend USA was a major manufacturing country 😢😢😢😢 so sad 😞 😮😮
I went to paris in 2005 & Detroit in 2010. You could still feel it
Yeah, they were also known as the “Arsenal of Democracy” during WWII because the car manufacturers were also making tanks, planes, armaments, etc.
Back then when a person graduated from high school anywhere in America they set their sights on going to Michigan to work in the car industry. Working for a car company like Ford back then in the 1930’s and 1940’s was like being a doctor today, people looked at you like you were ‘big time.’
Lol. Paris smells like piss
"Bought it just like this, there really wasn't nothing wrong with it." Marks humbleness and gratitude is awesome.
Detroit never recovered from the ‘67 Riots. And Coleman Young.
Facts
@@kingmaafa120 Yet the liberal elites proclaim Detroit is the Comeback City.
AND WHEN KWAME CAME ALONG HE HELPED HIMSELF TO THE CITY BANK ACCOUNTS AND
WENT CRAZY WITH THE MONEY AND BANKRUPTED THE CITY OF DETROIT
@ big time
damn so it's been down for 50 some years
Much older than the 70s with that old plaster lath on the walls.
Yes first thing I said 😂
1873 maybe
Probably the 1920’s
1792
yep. that bannister and floor boarding screams 1920's
It's a shame what big government has done to our once-thriving towns.
It’s so sad to see.
What did they do?
Are the politicians really to be blamed though, or is the folks who keep voting for them? Detroit has been like this for decades. It actually looks better now than it used to. The people complain but keep voting the same way. There's a pattern to this. The same thing can be seen (to a lesser extent) in many other places like Oakland, Chicago, Memphis... It's pretty much the same thing in ALL of these areas, and there is one consistent common denominator that we are not allowed to mention on this platform.
Line their pockets @@jordansikes534
@@jordansikes534its what they didnt do , theyve abandoned them thats what theyve done
Reading atlas shrugged, you imagine that she was exaggerating when she described once industrials towns now filled with primitive people, complacent in subhuman conditions, blaming the industry for leaving.
It’s more true than she was able to convey.
This is what happens when we turn away from GOD. Rand didn't understand that.
try Kurt Vonnegut's 'Player Piano' too - - set in post-industrial US where everything is automated
Starnesville = Detroit
Lmao yeah God is responsible. That's some real primitive thinking. @@Joe-mk3ii
@@GaZonk100please help us sky daddy 😅😅
The asbestos in the plaster is over stated. I did 20 years of American drywall. I also hung sheetrock . Ive torn out so many lathe and plaster walls and ceilings with a tshirt wrapped around my face… osha wants a 5,000 tent built over the entire structure to contain easbestos dust…. .
Gut them, those frames are built with oak. And the studs go from the foundation to the roof.
Im disabled now physically from brain injuries but i really would like to work with city planners all over America and rehabilitate these amazing old houses.
You’d be a great asset to any city!
drywall and sheetrock is the same thing
@ essentially its all gypsum. But a sheetrocker uses nails screws and tape measures and a drywaller uses a mud pan and drywall knifes, paper tape etc.
Thus i did drywall for twenty years, i also was a sheetrocker. Framers just put up nailers for the sheetrocker. Essentially the same thing also?
I would love to hear more of your knowledge on these homes.
@ just ask me friend
I was born in DETROIT. This is an accurate image of MANY of the neighborhoods in 2024. Downtown Detroit just became one of the Elite 10 cities in Michelin Green to visit…but that is the downtown! These are the majority of actual neighborhoods that surround the city.
Being English I am shocked at how large these houses are and how large the plot is on which they sit. Gardens front and back all gone to waste....such a shame.
Detroit is on fertile river bottom, too.
We don't have tyrant leaders. (Near tyrant though).
@@MsHillsdale I love those old wooden American houses. You can see the European influence mixing with the New World creating a style all of its own.
Young men "beefing" over women and "women creating beef" is in line with whatifallhist civil war concept. Young hood rat girls will wear an "old ex" getting shot and killed over her as a badge of honor.
Compared to the poor areas of Latin America, Detroit is nice and organized. If they fix the houses and clean the hoods a bit, Detroit will look better than rich hoods in Brazil.
The story of Detroit reminds me of a parent giving their kid their nice clean used car, and the kid runs it into the ground
lol ironic thats what happen to many of the homes
Exactly
The same thing happened in South africa.
This is happening in Flint and Saginaw too.
I see a lot of comments pointing at different reasons Detroit took a dive. The one thing I've not seen mentioned yet is NAFTA. That was the nail in the coffin.
I talk about nafta a lot Larry
Yes, you do. I was talking about the comment section specifically.
Thanks for what you do Nick! This is another excellent video.
@@NickJohnsonif the state offered 50k per homicide to identify and lock up the murderer . That would change everything. People will turn in their own mothers. But the state don't want that because it's blacks killing blacks.
Bush/Clinton's NAFTA 😞
Bush/Clinton NAFTA
Mayberry to Mogadishu is the story of my old neighborhood.
Highland Park was the Pearl of Detroit, neighborhoods were relatively safe and Kow Kow had the best Chinese food on the planet. Dad owned Bar on Hamilton, life was good before the dark times came along.
The eeeie quiet of Detroit can only be felt. When the visual shock ebbs, it is the quiet that scares you.
no its the poor dogs tied in the back yards that bother me
I lived just downriver from Detroit for three years. We took trips in Detroit often and I started looking into what happened. The 2008 housing crisis single handedly led to the dead houses in Detroit. The banks kicked people out of these homes and would have rather let the houses die than to work with homeowners so they could keep their homes.
@dingoledingus9039 nope, it was government regulations that forced banks to lend money to people who could not afford it. Government wanted to prove that more minorities were purchasing houses. Looked good to society and politicians to say more minorities are in homes than ever before, but was a policy disaster.
Lived and worked in the area (Warren, St.Clair Shores) back in my more youthful days. The average resident was kind and friendly but the weather and the crime ruined my experience.
I truly believe that Detroit will only turn things around when the residents desire they’ve had enough. Armed citizen patrols and extraordinarily harsh responses to gang activity is a prerequisite to success. Allowing a small minority of people to dictate every aspect of the majority’s life has got to stop.
No business or industry is EVER going to move in there if it is a high crime area. Its a non-starter.
@@338mag crime and high taxation, strangling regulations, DEI, and Marxist in the city government, and unreasonable unions.
@@338mag meh. Places like Chicago have jobs despite crime issues
I disagree the government can create more security jobs for any area!!
@cbodley4676 less jobs because of crime. Businesses will tell you that crime, energy, infrastructure, and regulatory policies determine if a business will locate there. So based on that a high crime area will not increase growth. Not hard to figure out.
I have been saying for 15 years that Detroit real estate is a huge secret, worth investing in. Many of the houses are architectural masterpieces.
yes an easy millionaire!
Almost non-existent city services, plus tax rates are higher than luxury cities of the USA
@@timothykeith1367City services have improved. Not great, but mayor Duggan has done a pretty good job improving things.
You dump your money into a toilet, then find someone to buy it. Dare you
I believe you're right, Detroit is going turn around in the right direction. Some Real Estate going for $1000 where else can you find affordable property like that
Tearing down and cleaning up abandoned areas is actually a step forward for Detroit. The next step would be to clean up any garbage remaining in the streets, etc. Nature quickly reclaims unoccupied blocks and creates fields, forests, etc. Makes total sense. If you pick up the trash, the area would look pretty nice.
When the crime moved in the people moved out this happened decades ago
Crime? Chrysler, Ford and Chevrolet? No, they were just grifters.
It was intentional. Read the book "Slaughter of the Cities" to understand how mostly ethnic Catholic urban neighborhoods in cities like Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, Philly were ethnically cleansed starting in the 1950s. They had become too politically powerful for the elites.
@@davidbrayshaw3529you got alot to learn kid
I was born and raised in Detroit. It was a wonderful place up until Coleman Young became Mayor.
Every bit of the current situation can be traced back to him.
I left in the 80s and it's only continued it's decline.
Remember his speech? If YOU PEOPLE don't like what I'm doing with the city of Detroit, you can move to the other side of 8 Mile. Mass exodus to the suburbs. Troy was built.
remember he told the blacks to stop unaliving other blacks and unalive a white person instead, while smiling from ear to ear while saying it
Coleman Young was not the root problem. The root problem was the surrounding suburbs sanctioning Detroit because Coleman Young was a black Mayor.
@JMcHan-ri1fm when Coleman Young was coming into office he announced in his speech, If YOU PEOPLE don't like what I'm doing for the city of Detroit, you can move to the other side of 8 Mile. My dad had his business in Detroit, he sold it and moved to CA.
@JMcHan-ri1fm coleman young was a commie and ran Detroit with an agenda of retribution that destroyed the city! Too bad!
When i got married in 68 we lived in Brightmoor, and our kids ran freely between houses. Sit out late in the yards. It was great. So sad to see it now. But go downtown it has been restored and it’s beautiful.
So sad, that used to be 1 of the wealthiest cities in America.. thank you Nick
Governor should be so proud. What a shame.
whitmer gets drunk with kamala lmao
How would this be the governor’s fault? You don’t know how anything works
@@rotavarp I believe he meant mayor Mike Duggan
How about the president of the USA...? It reflects on the President too
@@kinkiesse7736 You need to do more research, Some of those entrepreneurs have gotten business loans through not only banks but Federal loans as well with rebuilding parts of Detroit housing areas. Most are going the apartment building refurbishing route. The brother in this video would have benefited from Kamala Harris's plans because he is striving to be a landlord with multiple houses possibly leading to more rehabs turned into rents.
THANK YOU NICK FOR REVEALING WHAT TEAM YOU ARE ON!!!! IM ON YOUR SIDE
Ok Scott 👍
Old fart Convict47 won't fix anything, dream on
i am praying for the city of Detroit 🙏
I left Detroit in June 2000. I was almost raped, beaten, had all of my cars and bikes stolen...it was a miserable place.
It still is. Don’t buy into the hype vids all shot within two miles of the riverfront.
I still live here, comeback we miss u
@@justindee-ty2fryou black?
I left in 2008 for the Army... haven't been back since 😕
@johnpeters1765 LOL. Just watch some content creators that cover the actual city and you'd see you're wrong. There's a lot of work being done.
Detroit needs more people like Marc. He's a real genuine guy. I'd be honored to have him as a neighbor! That's how to make it a better place! ✌️👏🏆🏁💯🇺🇸
My sister lives in this forbidden place. She lost her three year-old son here to cancer and now she’s suffering from cancer herself. I can’t get her to leave. She’s been there now almost 30 years!😬And I live in Texas! Go figure.! she’s a Democrat voted for Kamala and I am a staunch Trumpster have been since 2015. Both of us are retired military Air Force, but she still stuck on the plantation up in Detroit.!🙏🏼🙏🏼🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
That is where her roots are.
I hear you and see why you think you can justify that as a comparison, but it truly comes down to her mindset, not politics. She probably doesn’t see her worth or value and thinks there’s no hope. She could move to Texas or any other red state but if her mindset is off, she’ll just fall into another issue where you feel she could do better.
Nick and Mappy ❤❤❤😮😮😮😊😊😊 Kim
I'm sorry about your sister and nephew
Mygod is anyrhing in the enviroment castingen the cancer
I win. Love your videos - documentaries. The neighbourhoods which died were probably vibrant once - where working class people lived and raised families. I grew up in a nice little place with white picket fences, rose trellises, carefully tended hedges and flower beds. I saw it recently after 37 years and it was dead - like a nuclear bomb site. Was very spooky.
Thank you for that Nick Do hope Mark does really well
I would have loved to see Detroit back in the 50's. These houses are gorgeous
Once the most industrious city in America....America's backbone. Gone like all industry.
Nick, I live in Michigan, but in St Clair County now.
My family moved out of Detroit (8 mile and Gratiot area)way back in the 70s because it was already starting to get bad.
It's pretty sad to see how bad it's gotten.
St Clair co also. Marine city. We use to skip school n drive thru the d for fun in the 90’s but I rarely go there now
It's a sign of the times Cate
I was a child during the Detroit riots Our family moved away It still causes me sadness to see the destruction of a once beautiful city Unchecked violence to this day🤷Wth
Must be hard to look at how its gone to shit. I'm Emglish and get annoyed when I see a house I remember from my childhood being knocked down. Good luck mate.
I was watching a video about Detroit a few months ago and they were interviewing people from 6 and 7mile areas. One was a very young prostitute who was also a mother. She found a motel room for the night and said that at least her kid would be safe in there while she was out working. She hated what she was doing but didn’t see any options.
I wanted to shake her and tell her that if she just grabbed her stuff and grab a ride even Walked heading North for just 2 miles, she would be able to get North of 8 Mile.
These people are so trapped but it’s more in their own hands to walk out of there and change their circumstances.
My mom worked for the Macomb County health and homeless. There are SO MANY options to help get people off of the streets. I volunteered there before and it is full of people who are trying to help.
If you live around here, then you know EMINEM was not exaggerating with his music and the movie 8Mile. These people are not lazy (most of them) they just don’t know how to get out.
Control the crime and people will come.
Would love to see an update on progress that Mark makes on his house in a year or two. Seems like a great person.
Yes, as a (former) Detroiter, I knew this. Every single home I ever lived in (with only one exception) has been burned to the ground or fallen over after the scrappers ripped the guts out of them. A real shame.
It is called urban prairie streets and sidewalks but no houses. Following this for years the abandon houses being torn down started out at 100,000. Colman Young was the beginning of the end
Coleman A. Young abused Detroit and it's citizens and the blx still defend him as a legend. They like their downward spiral, I'm convinced
Nailed it!
Coleman Young asked the white owned businesses to leave Detroit and they did. Look it up if you don't believe me.
Colman Young?
@@lindadunn8787 Coleman A. Young, further Tuskegee Airman & mayor of Detroit that robbed the city blind
democrat run since 1962, i remember when all the houses were still there and people lived in them.
democrats ruin things down, there you have Baltimore as an example and they also brainwash residents into keep voting for them forever
I grew up on the east side of Detroit near 7 Mile and Gratiot on Glenwood. Back in the 90s it was considered middle class families with houses on each block. Now its just vacant lots and maybe one house left on the block.
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I was born in Detroit in ‘52. I grew up in Redford and I worked in the Ford Rouge plant making LTD rocker panels and mustang door hinges when I graduated HS. A lot of great music came out of that city back then. Moved to California in ‘77 to work in tech. Never moved back but visited while my mother was still alive.
Nick, idea for you. You could do a Google Streetview overlay on some of these abandoned roads next time you are in Detroit to show how they looked 10-15 years ago (perfect time to have used it here for instance the scene at 6:37). I suspect the comparison would often be quite shocking.
Thanks for exposing the real Detroit.
Democrats
Exactly what I do on my channel and I get a lot of complaining for it in my comments because they say I'm not showing Detroit in a positive light when in reality I'm showing the real Detroit that needs the most help not downtown
This is not the whole of detroit 😂
This isn't it.
@@RasheedGazzi This is exactly it.
I remember what that area was like in the 50’s and 60’s , downright shame , very sad .
Same.
The sad thing is, These folks will still vote blue. You would think after 60 years, You would want a change. I wish Mark the best. I think its great he is fixing up that old house.
Forty years to go.
they are scared they will lose their ssi and ssdi and food stamp, section 8
they are brainwashed, is like if they signed a contract to vote democrat for years and years with no limit, the worse they are the more they vote democrat
Red states are toilets
BLUE or RED makes NO difference in this situation!! You have to have strong LEADERSHIP for your state to get things done. Trump ain't going to change a damn thing but make things WORSE!! He was President from 2016 -2020 what exactly did he do there, NOTHING!! He lost JOBS the first time he was President ( a RED change you wanted) and you see companies are already laying off or cutting jobs to prepare for those foreign tariffs that some US companies need from foreign providers to keep their companies running + he's burning all the bridges with the MAIN leaders of other countries. Our USA has too many FOOLS that talk out of their A** without knowing FACTS!! Wait and see what happens when the dock workers' union temporary deal made by President Biden expires on 1/15/2025 he will pass that off to (RED) good luck!! He has already screwed the steel union out of a GREAT DEAL with Japan that they wanted!!
14:30
I fell off my chair 🤣 when Mark stated :
"Wasn't really nothing wrong with it."
Detroit needs to lose another 600,000 in population before any real turnaround can begin.
That house was built in the 20’s I can tell by the way the walls are spackling and plaster. In the 70’s they used upgraded ways of building.
Not sure if it was more of a convenience and time saver than a true upgrade.
It's such a damn shame what happened to Detroit and so many other of our other American cities...all because of bad govt/state decisions and choices, probably mostly by greedy and corrupt selfish people. You can tell the homes in Detroit were once great...big, beautiful homes that have been left to decay and rot. I love that some see potential and are doing the hard work, we need more of that across this country...I hope we have a shot at saving America now, but the globalists do want their NWO...we will see.
Nick,
You're one of the best content creators on YT.
THANK YOU!!
Nick your videos are so very interesting a peek inside of one part of America forgotten 😢😢😢😢😢❤
I grew up living all over Detroit, Finkle & evergreen, Lyndon & Meijers, Pembroke & Southfield. I went to BOW elementary on Pembroke. I've live on coyle..I loved growing up in Detroit. It's sad the politicians have let this happen only to watch the property values drop and then buying up those properties at a rock bottom price.
I'm a builder, I could easily buy a home and move there, it's the gangs and crime that keep me away tho...such a shame.
Funny how u lived there but can't spell the streets right lol
@justise5621 I could care less about the spelling, I made my point.
Thanks for going into the ghetto for us
It's not a ghetto, it's a community in need
@@NickJohnsonIt's a dump.
There are barrios worldwide!!!!
Remember what Lizzo said: If KH was president, the whole country would be Detroit.
Lol where do I vote sounds awesome 😂
hmm wonder why michigan flipped
How about the whole country would be like California???
The whole country is like Cali. Open your eyes.
@@lisaspadini3343 Do you live in California, and if so, how long? I have lived in California for 71 years, and each year, it gets worse!!
Nick, I think the reason why your "Urban Apocalypse" videos gets so many views is that what you're showing is literally happening everywhere. Everything you showed in Detroit, Baltimore or Kensington etc. is happening all over the US but on a smaller scale and people have been watching it grow in their areas for 40+ years now. It might get a little better here or a little better there temporarily but everybody knows the system is going to collapse and there is no stopping it. Watching an empire rot from the inside out is interesting and gawkers like to watch.
Kensington is not its own city, it's a section of Philadelphia. It once had and still has a lot of hardworking people that live there .
@@ultimatevixn So what? There are good, hard working people literally everywhere and it means nothing. The forces that are causing this societal collapse are far beyond some guy working 3 jobs to support his family. People watch this stuff because they know all it takes is a layoff or a bad lab test at a doctors office and this could be them. They know that a Kensington or a Detroit is maybe a 10-15 minute drive from where they live and scares them but they can't stop watching it.
“White flight” as its called was a result of the Detroit Riots Jul 23, 1967 - Jul 27, 1967, the city has never fully recovered to this day. The big 3 auto makers moved out and never looked back. It’s a case of don’t bite the hand that feeds you!
I think "White Flight" pretty much happened in every major city in the United States.
White flight happened all over in major cities and Atlanta DC Charlotte still thrived
What started the riot????
During a very very hot summer police raided an unlicensed, after-hours bar, known as a blind pig, on the city's Near West Side. Composed mainly of confrontations between black residents and the Detroit Police Department. It exploded into one of the deadliest and most destructive social insurgences in American history, lasting five days. My mother lived through it, she recalled a Sherman tank being parked at the end of her street.
Thanks!❤❤ you be careful! Come see Royal Oak what they are doing to my little city! Going up?
The beginning house would have been built probably before 1930, the presence of old wood lath indicates that. Plasterboard the precursor to drywall came out in the early 1930’s
During the golden years of the automobile industry these neighborhoods must have been a nice place.
It's not just the loss of the auto industry
So sad to see what would have been proud homes, with families & daily activities. If walls could talkl
Living in England on the south coast, near London, this is totally alien to me.
@@timothykeith1367The war on black Americans, I mean the war on drugs is what caused this. Government sends in a bunch of drugs and Biden makes laws that started giving black men 15 years for a .5 while whites literally got no time at all.
@@DMWBN3 this is totally alien to people in the states as well.
If you look at documentary films of Detroit from back then it looked so fun and so awesome.
It must suck needing to wear a particular color just to try to avoid violence.
We don't have that problem.
Wearing the wrong color hat is just a fiction?
@@Eclecticompany Yes, this ain't LA or Chicago.
@Eclecticompany We have gangs but they are just neighborhood gangs of teenagers. Most grow out of it and move on with life and some don't and get involved in organizations.
A y’all isn’t it crazy how he tried to bait us with that BS not knowing we don’t even have that type of shit going on in our CITY……NEVER HAVE🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Nick pimpin’ in his 110k Grand Wagoneer. Glad you’re enjoying the fruits of your success. You deserve all of the good things that come to you. Much love from me down in Florida.
Haha that's not my ride. Where ya been? Missed you Jeff
110k for a Jeep? Thats the biggest crime of all this
@@frederickmuhlbauer9477governments been making it hard on all aspects of this video. Food, gas, crime, jobs and your darn right, over inflated cars.
@@laylacicconi8447 Yeah, it seems like they make more money exporting and importing stuff made elsewhere and pass it on to the consumer and most those people won’t get a dollar per mile out of their vehicle, about the same cost and reliability as a Barbie Jeep , cost per mile
@ I work in the port of Los Angeles and we’ve been loading back empty containers for the 21 years I’ve been down there and long before that. It’s just sad. NAFTA ruined this country and no one has cared until Trump came into the picture. Prayers for this country!
Once the derliced houses are torn down and you have a big of green ontop, it actually looks quiet nice.
You could keep doing that and turn the lost suburban sprawel into seperate villages.
How Sad to see so much decline! Some of those houses with large yards could be fixed up quite nicely with some assistance if the government actually cared. Best wishes to Mark, he should record his progress so we can root him on!
$1000? That's the real crime.
The back taxes you're not thinking about
I bet you if middle class non black people started moving in these areas it would be restored and a thriving community in less than 5 years
Have to have jobs to make that move.
@@pappap1702 white people create jobs so it wouldnt be a problem
Why non black?
Absolutely correct
@@FRANKMANGIAPANEimmigrants🤷🏽♀️
Can you ask one of those "home rehab" guys if they had considered if "squatters" moved in..
I was looking up one of the foreclosures that was on your video, it said the listing price was 99,000 but buried in the details was a requirement for $230,000 to close on the house. I guess the person owed more than the house was worth, I don't think that's ever going to sell
Remember, Detroit was in worse shape during Trump's 1st term.
@kinkiesse7736 I don't know why that matters but undoubtedly the issue was in Trump's term they weren't tearing down any of the houses. That started to be done under Trump but has really improved the city as it's accelerated. They are definitely on track to renew the city. When you empty out a city block and it's clean of all the garbage, all of a sudden you have a marketable piece of land.
In some context you can tear down a building and use the foundation to put up a new house without a permit or anything which saves you a lot of money. But that doesn't work in Detroit
I left Michigan in 1991 living in Florida now. My grandfather used to take us slumming in the 70’s showing how the poorer lived. Most the homes were decent but I still remember porches had tons of people just sitting there during the day. I was just a kid but remember this area. Sad now the houses all gone today.
This is 80% of the city. The numbers are mind boggling. 50,000 vacant properties. Population loss of 1.2m. Ancient infrastructure. Environmental hazard sites. Worst public schools in the nation and #2 in the nation in violent crime.
This is not.
@johnpeters1765 Vacant properties down to 3,400. Will be 1,000 by the end of 2025. Give Detroit 10 years..
@@kinkiesse7736 Not if you count vacant lots where vacant homes once stood and all other vacant buildings, commercial, retail, office, schools, etc.
Beautiful Craftsman style houses left to rot. When I was a kid, Detroit was like a STRONG upper middle class metropolis with glass sky rises. There was a short lived sit com about 3 waitresses that worked in one. Whoever turned Michigan into what much of the cities are now should be doing time.
God Bless Mark and grant him the resources he needs.
for some reason I feel it has some sort of magnetism. I like it for whatever reason. the christmasy houses, large open spaces, the trees, the inbetween creepy and storylike atmosphere. there's something there.
There's no fences 😮
It truly is a beautiful place
The nostalgia is strong
Finally you hit Detroit! Been waiting for this one.
1 million subs! Congratulations.Great content.
Do not get out of your vehicle and leave the door wide open.
..engine running. Asking for trouble
Sounds like you know this from experience.
@@tony690 Thankfully no but I’ve seen it happen countless times on Twitter or whatever.
I'm safe and tough and strapped
@@NickJohnson Glad to hear that Brother. Just saying because one of them may make a sprint for the vehicle. You’re doing important work and you mean a lot to a lot of people.👍
Yes, this is Detroit….but, in comparison to many years ago, this place is truly changing for the better! (A Lion’s WIN would be great for this city!-no pressure, though😉)
So true the crime rate has went down and homeless is under control unlike California, Los Angeles , New York , and lot more states with homelessness and drugs epidemic
The lions on it
The green space looks better than the dilapidated houses did.
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Go Lions honey baby
I live here in the D, and it's beautiful. There are some areas that aren't dense however many full streets with solid brick homes across the city
I've been working in Detroit and suburban Detroit auto factories for years and EVERYONE of the coworkers I've ever had have the same thing to say when they're told to do something while they're at work, "THATS NOT MY JOB" and we wonder why most of our jobs went to Mexico and China.
I've been hearing that for almost 25 years my self.
Also in Michigan.
Thank the union! I have many friends working for the big 3 and yep it’s a shit show in those factories 😂.
Nice touch with the synthesizer…made me feel like I was in an 80’s dystopian movie.
I was raised in Oakland County.
I'm glad I left .
Detroit affects the suburbs
51:20 Mark seemed chill and down to earth and he gave it to us real. thumbs up to him.
10:28 "Detroit's Africa with decaying Victorian homes"