Detroit dopers - Why all the burned out homes?

[Susanann]

@ralph124c

If Detroit could deliver good schools, crime-free streets, and reasonable taxation, businesses would not have left-instead, people voted with their feet.

Frankly, for Detroit to recover would take honest and efficient government…which Detroit hasn’t had in 60 years.

Coincidentally, the last Republican Mayor of Detroit, was Louis Miriani, 1957 to January 2, 1962.

Anyway, I agree with what you say.
As you say, all Detroit has to do is:

1. to eliminate crime,
2. get good schools, and
3. reasonable taxes

…and businesses would come back, employed married people would come back, and Detroit would boom once again as it did 10 years ago. Detroit was once one of the best cities in the world, not that long ago. Nothing to it to fix! It is not that hard to do folks. Pretty simple really.
The current condition of Detroit really has nothing to do with the recession, or with the auto industry, nor with unions, nor geographry, nor the times, nor the tooth fairy, nor any other things like that that people have mentioned. All you gotta do is look at the other side of the river, Windsor, is a really nice city with not much crime, no burned out buildings, lots of businesses, good schools, and married families moving to Windsor.