Detroit: Disappearing City?
Against The Current vol. 150
Feeley, Dianne
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/3131
Date Written: 2011-01-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2011
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13732
Forty percent of Detroit today is considered virtually “unoccupied.” The administration of Mayor Dave Bing is trying to figure out how to move the remaining residents of these areas out, in the name of “rightsizing” the city. Of course he hasn’t revealed any specifics — and the devil is in the details! Residents are wary: without the money to relocate people and the services needed, it’s just another round of displacing the urban poor.
