Detroit, Michigan | What Happened Here?

[@jennbed1899]

Each abandon house can tell a story, from years of happiness to years of sadness. I can imagine just looking at the houses what a wonderful place it used to be. So sad...

[@sergei6572]

I'm from Russia. We also have such places, but they are located mainly in rural areas. I see that large trees grow near abandoned houses. If I were a writer, maybe I would write a story about how trees and houses talk to each other, remembering people with whom they have lived for decades, remembering their joys and sorrows, birth, childhood.....

[@theboone3848]

Must be weird living on a block where your house is the only one not abandoned...

[@cynthiajones7608]

I grew up here. What happened is that over the last FOUR DECADES OR MORE, the city government has been lining their pockets and forgot they were supposed to be upholding standards, implementing policies and looking out for the citizens that were in their charge!!! It's sad, disgraceful and evil. 😢😠

[@laughingcrowe22]

I've no words. This brought me to tears. Detroit, at one time, was one of the most prosperous cities in the U.S. Its painful to see it like this.

[@Don_joe-z]

Very sad indeed. In around 1950, Detroit was the wealthiest city in whole world. It is unbelievable nowadays.

[@kenszahamilton2302]

These homes are massive and beautiful, I can only imagine how this place use to look back in the day . I’m sure it was beautiful ❤

[@carlosrivas2012]

Eso mismo pienso...

[@fernandoloureiro7533]

I'm Brazilian, my grandfather's cousin, both Portuguese, went to Detroit in the 1920's to work in the automotive industry.With his earnings he bought many properties in Portugal and became rich.

[@bootszarawalken9987]

Judging by those houses, Detroit must have once been quite a beautiful city.

[@siphomogale779]

It is done deliberate how can u move businesses overseas and local people are left to suffer

[@Someone.or.no-one]

No, they don't intentionally, however they- in the pursuit of money -do it inadvertently

[@martyanderson3390]

I’m sure if you do your research you’ll understand how this happened. It’s not a mystery.

[@wwbdwwbd]

America is possibly the only country in the world in which cities look like utter war zones during peacetime. We have simply given up.

[@whosurdaddy1975]

humn not as peaceful as you think, those places are more dangerous than war zone.

[@MazichMusic]

Rural areas are in neglect, too.

[@stivjoz476]

Not all of us have given up

[@colleenwalsh6899]

My grandma lived in one at Grand River and Schafer, on Hartwell. It was a beautiful neighborhood. Once the riots happened, it was never the same and it just continued to deteriorate for the last 5 decades. Heartbreaking.

[@hildeschmid8400]

Seeing this always brings tears to my eyes. I grew up in Detroit, and it was so much prettier 55 years ago. The house I grew up in has been gone for at least 20 years.😢

[@JaredMerlin]

Sorry to hear that.

[@garybrown585]

Me too.

[@erical.rivers]

O it did bring tears to my eyes 😭 my Lord 🙏

[@TheMotorman116]

As a carpenter, it’s heartbreaking to see the disrepair. I’ve worked in Detroit many times, during what some call the “rebirth “, and I assure you, it’s a crock. There’s no rebirth happening, it’s lipstick on a pig. I hate going down there to work, as everything we build will eventually be destroyed.

[@tennesseerose6400]

2# of my brothers work there =I pray every day for them " 🙏 and I agree with all you said '%1000

[@stefanopaternostro8668]

Why is that everything gets destroyed?

[@MacGregor.]

Yep. Det Union carpenter here. Which means nothing.

[@susanboatman7913]

I grew up in Oak Park, Michigan. It borders the City. There's a noticeable difference when you go from the suburbs that border the City to the City itself. Its really sad I've watched this City in the 60s and it was absolutely gorgeous. Most of the City looks like a war zone with pockets of what it used to look like.

[@kenbredow8727]

The one thing I miss about going to oak Park is the bread basket deli. I like Detroit I like the diversity I hope things will get better in the future

[@harryknutts8428]

i have home movies of rosedale park and the plymouth and grandville areas and it was beautiful and the videos are in color , just no sound cuz they didnt have sound in home movies in the 60s

[@kp8740]

One can only imagine how heart breaking it would be if an original owner were to see their home in such a state. How sad and what an incredible waste.

[@law275]

It's just so sad. Thanks for showing reality as difficult as it is to see.

[@hoodsnhollers]

Thanks for watching!

[@VeraJLocke]

Words cannot express the sadness that I feel seeing this!!!

[@doubled3962]

A lot of these homes could be fixed , they have good wood , these homes years ago were beautiful and people had good memories, children born , family dinners , all when the economy was booming.

[@againstthegrain147]

Interesting to see the abandoned homes and big cars that are not cheap across the road!

[@MountainGram112]

I grew up in Detroit suburbs, some of these look like my grandparents houses. Many families were supported by factory workers. The deserted factories are really hellish to see.

[@billdanosky]

50 years ago, Detroit had 30,000 people going to work on three shifts, every day. They spent their money locally, and then it all stopped.

[@jdmb03]

Born and raised in Detroit, spent 30-years of my life there. Truly sad how the city has been destroyed.

[@SweetZuni]

You can tell, these used to be beautiful homes. It's now heartbreaking.

[@ВасилийБакланов-ь9ы]

Ветхость и запустение, грустно когда умирают деревни, но очень больно когда умирают города!

[@ToddLear-pw5ei]

And yet you can't buy any of these properties for less than 25 thousand. This country has a serious problem when it comes to the outrageous property values it has established. Lower those and watch how fast places like this come back to life.

[@alakablam7901]

The Detroit ruins are equally as fascinating as they are sad. Thanks again for another great video.

[@d.j.savick]

What makes this even more depressing is the time of year this was filmed in. The bare trees, dead grass, and grey skies make it look even more post-apocalyptic. Such large homes too. Sad.

[@0001-r3o]

At one time Detroit lost 65% of its population. When a hurricane hut New Orleans they lost 65% of their population for a time. Detroit didn't experience a sudden devastation, but a gradual erosion by greedy mayors and their cronies. Detroit is coming back with a new leadership but it will take a long time to raise it up from the ashes.

[@olgalisichkina7107]

Печально смотреть на пустые и заброшенные дома...к сожалению у нас в России тоже много заброшенных поселков,где когда то кипела жизнь....

[@saint.vitus.7775]

Do you ever get spooked when you're filming? The grey overcast sky and the dead wintery vegetation really all combine to give such an eerie feeling. Definitely wouldn't want to be here at night.

[@manitoumimi]

I don’t “enjoy watching this kind of stuff”, but I do appreciate you documenting it for posterity. Stay safe out there.

[@markstrouse3101]

Great great video as always. Plain and simple, it's simply unbelievable

[@lorrainelissner3308]

I have a long since moved away from Detroit, but I grew up there as a little girl. I remember the fox theater was such a beautiful place to go. This is because of neglect the government, their socks, and they should all be replaced. It’s really a shame.

[@Mark-oy1wv]

The Fox Theater and downtown Detroit are beautiful

[@davidneely5750]

Back in my day, people had a sense of pride in their homes and gardens. Some of these houses are older homes which tend to be better built and structurally strong. They could easily be restored to their former glory with a little bit of initiative and a bit of artistic vision as well.

[@darkmatter5016]

You know what that takes.... money

[@carolperdue7534]

Who is going to live there though? Michigan as a whole has lost over two million people. Plus they are steadily building new housing. They are working to tear these places down..

[@hwoodist]

I'm looking into it...

[@Southwest_923WR]

You really picked the perfect day to film this... dark, overcast late winter day, which Im sure was a cool, if not cold day, adds to dreariness, and gloom. I've never been to Detroit, but that's really sad to see, just the same. Im in Dallas, and although Im sure there are pockets around town may be similar to that, but I know of none, and I've been here since 1969. My heart goes out to people who have lost there way of life theree, and I hope those that left altogether found a better life. Great video.👍🏿

[@picaresqueatheist]

There's 53,000 abandoned homes in Detroit

[@timpeltier2901]

😳

[@TheOPERATIVNIK]

Я из России смотрю это видео какие же красивые дома, смотря на их заброшенный вид очень жаль, смотря на это видео Представляешь сколько там было жизни а теперь и всё в запустенье.В чём причина этого,почему там не живут люди?

[@susiefairfield7218]

Dayum...growning up in the 60s & 70s and spending time with fam in Detroit.. I never would have dreamed this would have happened ...

[@deborahryan2654]

This is a national disgrace. Shame on all those companies that left America high and dry, for the almighty buck they can make overseas.

[@chrisi2166]

I am from Germany but i love Detroit. Great musicians, wonderful people. My dead husband was from Detroit. God bless everyone.

[@JC111WPB]

Such beautiful old houses each with unique architectural style.

[@MCtravler]

My mother grew up in Highland Park, a suburb of Detroit, in the 20’-40’s. We used to visit my grandmother there, in the 50’s-60’s. Was only starting to get scary then. I see her street on Google Earth street view now, and it looks like these streets your traveling down. No longer a place to visit!

[@nterracall]

Such beautiful homes. Loving Families once lived there planted trees, nutured a garden, celebrated Christmases... Unspeakably sad. Brought me to tears. I am from the Midwest. I have lived in Australia the last 30 years. What has happened to my country

[@toke7560]

What sort of leaders are running the country to let this happen to such beautiful homes. Just lost for words.

[@vincentlussier8264]

It looks like the outskirts of a neuclear strike! This is sad because it used to be a really nice place at one time and the homes were gorgeous! And the zone is enormous!

[@moonwalker091000]

So sad to see such beautiful homes that were once lived in by so many families. You can tell by the craftmanship that these were really well built homes. Such a tragedy. :o( Please stay safe and thank you for the post.

[@hoodsnhollers]

Thanks so much for watching and yes those homes were beautiful at one point for sure

[@TangoCharlieAlpha]

Such a shame. A lot of those old homes are big and beautiful! Such potential, and it clearly was a beautiful town at one point. It's so sad that a lot of us will never know the joys of home ownership, and yet homes literally sit and rot away. The only way I could see reviving any of that area, is to build a gated community of some sort, but then it becomes a prison in and of itself. And we still continue to outsource jobs overseas, to countries that literally HATE us......yet they sure do like to take our money. Thanks for the videos.

[@ElenorNailsArt]

Більшість вас любить, я вас люблю❤

[@nedrawarwick3840]

This is what happens when houses are rented out, people don't take care of it

[@veselka16]

Jobs must come back to America for us to renew neighborhoods again.

[@harryknutts8428]

the worst thing tho is this took 30 or 40 years to happen nobody did anything to stop it

[@arabicmusiclady1428]

Detroit used to be so beautiful. Sad it's destroyed. It still has potential of being beautiful and developed. It's just Michigan politicians don't want to invest in it and wealthy people don't want to fix it and live in it. So, it's basically filled with poor people and damaged neighborhoods/houses.

[@lewisner]

In the UK not a single one of these houses would be empty and most of them would be worth £300,000 - £500,000.

[@kimleone5496]

Because we outsourced manufacturing and transitioned our economy to service based. We didn't realize the consequences. We all messed up big time

[@brendahosman6862]

Those houses are big. I bet that was a wealthy area when those houses were built. I would love to see video of this neighborhood when these houses were first built.

[@retirementbootcampoff-grid237]

Entire blocks where the owners abandoned the homes have been sold to overseas investors, mainly Europeans, through county tax liens (because the owners were not paying their property taxes). The block owners expect that some time in the future the lots will be cleared by the city or county and the selling prices of the lots will be restored. The land is still quite valuable. America, be patient and don't give up on these areas.

[@MarianaGotti]

Hello, could you explain why the houses were like that? What is the reason for abandonment?

[@brianirvine1339]

Can you imagine what it must be like living in a place like this .

[@SnakeP1tPoetry]

"It's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it." -George Carlin

[@유성수-t3w]

I once lived in Ann Arbor, near Detroit. Unbelievable. Where have all the people gone who lived in those many many vacant houses ? Did they move out to other cities ?

[@lisac6399]

Yes, lack of good paying jobs...ect...ect...

[@PhilippinesOnDemand]

I grew up on six or seven mile and Gratiot. On a street called SPRING GARDEN. It's near Grotto Catholic School. Are you familiar with Spring Garden? The area there? I"m 62 years old now and living in the Philippines. If you can, would you kindly record both sides of the entire street of Spring Garden for me, please? I have not been there in 50 years!

[@shelleyreynolds5810]

Such beautiful grand houses. It must have been so pretty and full of joy and life at one time. Such a shame,

[@Grassplant2012]

The fact that the city looks even more depressing around the time you were filming. It looks even more like a warzone because all of the plants look dead. And the gray sky doesn't make it look any better

[@saburwolf2792]

This is more horrific beyond description, never knew how bad Detroit got after everything that happen for the past 3 years. Thank you for this with me.

[@bobbyjohnson6355]

At 2:35 I recognized the old Thompson Funeral Home on Dexter and Whitney. I lived there in the mid 60’s / mid 70’s (born in 64). The area was full of families and businesses. Really sad to see how much it’s declined.

[@terencenelson1950]

Yes that's the way it looked I'm from Detroit Born and raised some of the houses are set on fire and some of the houses was not set on fire but went up because of the bad wiring that's in those houses The houses are old knob and tubing wiring which is bad the insulation comes off the wires in the house and start a fire ,some of the houses just wasn't kept up by the owners and the other houses when somebody move out they go in there and tear up the house taking copper wiring plumbing out the house The furnace water heater to make money it is shame!! They've been tearing them down and people don't take care of their homes in Detroit no money.

[@staybee7182]

Same in Chicago on the stripping of the metals from the beautiful abandoned homes. Then, they turn into decay...

[@Msangel06]

This is what I saw daily growing up in Detroit. Abandoned houses and buildings. No grass, no trees, no flowers. No beauty. It was gloomy and still is. Why is there never any sun?? This is depressing.

[@staybee7182]

🤔

[@NR-fd9wv]

even the sun was to scared to go there

[@frenchybyrd4274]

Looks like Something in a FRED KRUGGER Movie. FOR REAL.

[@sknowman1424]

Looks like the southern coalfield counties of West Virginia, where I grew up. Just on a much larger urban scale. Except the WV houses weren't near that big, most were small company built houses.

[@Валентина-х1ж4б]

Очень печально, что такие места есть почти по всему миру

[@frankwoods4532]

This is sad. I wonder what the answer would be to fix this place up? A lot of wasted land. Back in the day I bet this place was really something. Thanks for sharing.

[@carolperdue7534]

The answer is simple: people with jobs. These houses are vacant and there not enough people to live in them. The city is planning to tear these properties down.

[@monicapushkin3274]

Forty years ago took a trip to Buffalo. Drove through an area similar to this, but not quite as bad. Most houses looked abandoned, with people sitting on a porch every few houses.

[@s5adventures]

So sad to see. But great video as always

[@pinkvelvet3865]

Unbelievable. After people lost their jobs this is what happened.

[@gumib7317]

I remember being a kid in the early eighties living .walking around the streets playing in alleyways not a worry of something bad happening. Now Detroit has become a nightmare

[@PLS.54]

And yet Hummers are parked on Holmur Street! What does that tell you? 😳 This was once a grand neighborhood.

[@toddmoss1689]

Detroit grew to an incredible size in the 1920’s via annexation of surrounding townships, then suburbs started sprouting around Detroit in the 1950’s as heavy industry gradually pulled up and left. Now Detroit is saddled with a landmass that equals Manhattan, San Francisco, and Boston combined with a shadow of it’s former peak population of around 2 million. Detroit is far better than 10 years ago, but work remains in the neighborhoods.

[@montanamombo]

Watching this, I thought, people raised their families there, loved and fought and made up and moved on. This breaks my heart.

[@Winkie_Designs]

omg this is heart breaking.. i bet this was once a great thriving community.. this now looks like a scene from a online video game with the run down ruins 😔

[@Jane_Harlie]

Such beautiful craftsman homes. They look like they were built really well. So heartbreaking.

[@Mitzi73]

Those homes were gorgeous! There was a real amazing community there at one time.😢

[@rajanadar8057]

Seeing dilapidated and abandoned house saddens me profoundly. There might have been some compelling reasons for people to abandon them who once called it their home. Many beautiful people might have lived in these houses filling them with their peals of laughter

[@horlos7175]

It's better with your captions. Hope you will tell us what is the camera you are using. Keep up the good work 👍

[@hoodsnhollers]

I've been experimenting on different ones, I'll update when I figure out the best.

[@ВикторияНекрасова-р4с]

Дома кирпичные добротные хорошие. Видно что люди собирались там еще долго жить.

[@edineidecorreia4194]

Muito triste, tanta gente precisando de moradia, e todas essas casas abandonadas, lamentável 😭😭😭😭🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@kamarvika]

Thank you for the tour at Detroit Michigan ❤

[@stusrt]

I live in the Detroit 'burbs. Sometimes I drive through these areas to remind myself to be grateful.

[@gigikornikova5469]

Imagine you're driving here at night..this is straight up from a horror movie.

[@hoodsnhollers]

I'll post some night footage soon when I get a chance

[@kathleenmartin7498]

Many blocks have been cleaned up of abandoned homes and the empty.lots turned into garden areas

[@vaughanmccarthy6685]

I think what makes Detroit twice as depressing to look at is the miserable weather. The constant grey skies are just so grim. Yeah, it would still look terrible if it were sunny, but the grey skies say there’s absolutely no hope.

[@robinsmith8252]

The stories theses houses could tell. Generations coming and going thru those doors. The mass migration to the north for a better life and work. Now has become a ghost town from the exodus. So sad. But glad you are here to document this.

[@HossEehoss]

Very well put. ❤❤

[@snowstormyman]

Thanks for the video! Also wondering "What happened here"? Me - living in Sweden, and can say, that what this video shows, could never happen here, because the authorities will never allow this to happen.

[@Pstanich]

So depressing. These people use to have good lives. It's all been taken away

[@ЩаоуталДаталалк]

Когда-то это всё строилось, развивалось, радовалось жизни. Всё было хорошо и красиво, а потом что-то случилось и всё пришло в запустение. Как грустно.

[@normchandok4432]

What a shame to leave these houses in such way!

[@brandiwhite9750]

Tell me this how did you feel emotionally as you rode through these places I would be very curious to know if you became sad and angry depressed or distract what was the emotion that you felt when you stepped into that atmosphere???

[@k-sell4065]

Breaks my heart to see my birth city like this 😢

[@russandolinajr4780]

1:01 Thats amazing hiw that one or two houses remained untouched or were the only houses that actually have people living in There. Niagara falls, Ny neighborhoods look identical.

[@tanja6233]

Happy Tuesday friend.. Every state and city you drive through 🤷🏻‍♀️ it's noticable..ONCE APON A TIME the neighborhoods were flourishing ..2023 😢 it shouldn't be this way SADLY IT IS ..each home with history/ families celebrations so forth and these homes aren't small at all. A few homes are lived in 🤗 / being flipped and such ... Thank you again for sharing your time stay safe in your travels friend 😃

[@hoodsnhollers]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@tanja6233]

@@hoodsnhollers Your welcome always

[@bexar2105]

These houses are well built with love, that's why they are still standing. Nothing built today would last this long.

[@Daniy-y6f]

Зато в крупных городах полные улицы бездомных.

[@darian6127]

One can imagine that twenty or thirty years ago, these abandoned houses were filled with the laughter of children, and everything was so beautiful and alive!

[@5thdimension625]

At one time, Detroit was one of the wealthiest cities in America. There are now over 30k abandoned houses which to chose from if you want to get on the gentrification bandwagon. It’s happening and the riff raft is spilling outbound to the burbs.

[@matthewcummings5927]

In the world, my friend. Hard to comprehend.

[@realdragunov]

Never seen a modern city actually fade away like this....