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[Realmfighter]

The average price of a "family sized" house - lot, building, and all - in Detroit is $18,000.

Shit, house's here go for 100,000 easily.

Maybe its some weird exchange thing.

[Aqizzar]

Maybe its some weird exchange thing.

Nope, that's just how badly the land has been devalued.  There's huge tracts of empty suburbs the county management is trying to reclassify as unincorporated land (i.e. farm county) so they can save some money not providing utilities to the coyotes living there.

Yes, beyond a doubt it has issues, and I was not in the worst places, but it gets a much worse reputation than it deserves.

Maybe, maybe not.  Reputations are always overblown, but for quite a few years in the 80's and 90's Detroit did lead the nation in statistical rates of random or violent crimes or something, I'd have to look it up again.  (Robocop was set there, y'know.)  Probably just because Detroits's been so depopulated, it lost that honor some years ago to Dallas.  (Robocop was filmed there y'know.)

[Jude]

There are huge areas of Detroit where there'll be one or two houses inhabited on a block, too. There's some movement to pay the people to move out of there and turn it all into urban forest/park, which would be cool.

Also, mine explosion in I think W. Virginia handful of deaths and bunch of missing who will probably be found dead.

[Heron TSG]

But when wildlife are gentrifying your neighborhood, it's time to pack to pack it in.

If people moved every time wildlife were seen roaming the streets where I live, I'd move six times a day. It's not as much of a problem when people are used to seeing them, though.

I also agree with the idea to turn Detroit into a huge wildlife park.

[Solifuge]

They're currently buying up old burned-down lots (places that haven't been touched since the riots) and demolishing them, leaching toxins and heavy metals out of the soil using sunflowers, and then planting interurban farms for the unemployed to work at.

It's a controversial idea, but it would provide opportunities to the unemployed, make use of the currently useless lots, and would get people back in touch with one of the cornerstones of civilization.

[Aqizzar]

would get people back in touch with one of the cornerstones of civilization.

I for one am not eager to return to the days of sharecropping on my lawn, and I doubt many black-progress organizations are too keen on the subtext.  I know it's ultimately a smart idea and all, but something about turning dilapidated urban land into peasant farms strikes me as downright post-apocalyptic.  Which I suppose for Detroit, it is.

[Heron TSG]

Detroit would make a good farm anyway. Nice big lake nearby, provided they clean it up.

[Jude]

would get people back in touch with one of the cornerstones of civilization.

I for one am not eager to return to the days of sharecropping on my lawn, and I doubt many black-progress organizations are too keen on the subtext.  I know it's ultimately a smart idea and all, but something about turning dilapidated urban land into peasant farms strikes me as downright post-apocalyptic.  Which I suppose for Detroit, it is.

Never thought of it that way. White people love local food and gardening so much and are so enthusiastic to get everybody else into that I think that subtext would go completely unnoticed to most of them too. And obviously I'd rather the land be turned into community gardens than business-owned farmland, too. City-dwellers could grow a solid amount of their own food by replacing abandoned houses with gardens.