On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 9:01:56 PM UTC-4, BigC300 wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 09:05:51 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
> >My great-grandmother raised chickens in her yard in Berkley, MI. It's
> >a "suburb" now, but at the time it was a small town a few miles outside
> >Detroit. This would have been in the 1930s or 1940s.
> >
> >Raising chickens in town is fashionable again.
>
> What is happening to all the abandoned houses in Detroit? Does it look
> like a ghost town?

Some neighborhoods do, some don't. That's part of the problem. There
are areas where there's one occupied house on a block, yet they still
have to provide city services. It's very inefficient. But it's
politically incorrect to talk about relocating those people to areas
where the population density is greater.

There are areas that never succumbed to de-population, and are filled
with ordinary middle-class people.

Cindy Hamilton