Detroit's Forbidden Housing Projects Explained

[@maxb4074]

Money to build a project and money to maintain a project are two separate things.

[@beaurodriguez5640]

Facts.

[@matismf]

@@beaurodriguez5640 But demographics are demographics.

[@TheDigitalslayer]

@@matismf That's true, once higher incomers leave, everyone else is left behind and the budget for maintenance begins to decrease creating a vicious downward cycle. To combat this they lower restrictions until the point where the structures are deemed dangerous and uninhabitable blight.

[@choossuck7653]

The people you put in the project matters

[@BigKerm]

Building structures that look nice without access to quality education or enough quality jobs will eventually result in failure. And we know of one demographic in particular that has always been (as a collective) segregated from those two crucial standards for functional living in this country. Whenever this particular demographic accomplished setting up their own successful cities, towns & districts, we have witnessed their destruction using mob violence by the dominant demographic (see Tulsa OK, 1921 or Rosewood FL 1923, Wilmington NC 1898 etc). But it's always easier to use political & municipal levers to keep certain communities depressed. They'll eventually collapse in on themselves. If anyone disagrees with this, show me a place & time in the history of America where quality education & jobs were equally available to all demographics, but resulted in slum conditions 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@fracturedrealitygaming1326]

Channels like yours and The Fat Electrician have reignited my interest in all aspects of history. Thanks for doing what my pyooblic edumucation failed to do decade and a half ago

[@thetvbaby83]

Quack bang out 😂

[@fracturedrealitygaming1326]

@@thetvbaby83 NOBODY touches Doc

[@thetvbaby83]

@@fracturedrealitygaming1326 and don't F'n mess with our Boats!!! 😂

[@fracturedrealitygaming1326]

@thetvbaby83 or the grunts may just S.T.E.A.L. some air corpsman and Grandpa Buff and drop the sun on you, because it's never a war crime the first time

[@harrymaciolek9629]

I worked in the low rise section in the 80’s when they were being demolished. They seemed nice though the rooms were a bit small. The courtyards were beautiful though to be fair the trees were at their maximum growth by then.

[@stephenmoerlein8470]

Interesting history. The Detroit projects were predictive of what was to happen later in St. Louis and Chicago with their housing projects. Good idea at first, but doomed to fail due to poor management and crime. Thanks for posting.

[@ITSHISTORY]

Thank you for sharing

[@DB-rw9ld]

@@stephenmoerlein8470 New York was the first example for all housing projects....

[@candynickel]

Poverty really was the root cause. Crime is a side effect

[@thinmintish]

@@candynickelthank you! Ppl are so easily side tracked

[@MrIansmitchell]

@@candynickel why do different demographics earning similar incomes commit crime at radically different rates?

[@Slappysan]

"Commerical Park"? This is the one that stopped me in my tracks....

[@lisareed5669]

​@lorankutheresistable Douglass

[@marklenkner2932]

He's clearly not from Detroit. lol

[@marcusothman3435]

I instantly came to the comments section when I heard it

[@emknapp6713]

What do you expect from some guy halfway around the world spewing out US history for KZbin views.

[@viktorakhmedov3442]

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL x💯

[@avatarmikephantom153]

Thank you for this. I’m huge on Detroit History, but I learn something new all of the time. This is great.

[@ITSHISTORY]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@charleshildebrand9300]

Frederick Douglass was not alive in 1972. He died in 1895.

[@craxd1]

I caught that too.

[@juliac6256]

i swear no one proofreads his scripts

[@richardcranium3579]

@@juliac6256intentional

[@danduffy7974]

LOL

[@ringo1692]

@@juliac6256 shouldn't have to proofread that one though, lol 😜

[@craigdvance]

I moved out of Detroit in 96. I missed multiple rises and falls, and it is completely unrecognizable to my memory now. It is quite surreal to see all these old structures gone. I went to wayne state and passed these buildings almost everyday.

[@epasternak4206]

I moved out in 94, came back in 96, regret it every single day of my life coming back her, sure nice new buildings but the surrounding areas are still absolute garbage. Born and raised in the 313, puke

[@geraldus1rex]

I worked as a public health nurse in the area in the 70's and the decline and choas was in full swing. People felt trapped by crime and violence. Yet the parking lot was full of Cadillac with fancy tire rims

[@durango8882]

I went to WSU too

[@latoriarichardson6754]

​@@epasternak4206I'm praying that you can move away again to a much better place!

[@Izzymeeyakii]

I live in Detroit and grew up here the Brewsters are still here just smaller it’s town houses now .. still low income .. I have great memories with friends who grew up over there .. ❤

[@autobug2]

The entire city of Detroit is low income!

[@Brocuzgodlocdunfamdogson]

@@autobug2 Tell that to Boston Edison. Or Palmer Woods. Or Sherwood Forest. These Detroit neighborhoods all have a median income near or above $100k. Indian Village, Rosedale Park and Grandmont are all on par with Detroit’s middle class suburbs, $60-80k.

[@damaddog8065]

Simple, this was a government housing property, those living there had no investment in it, and thus did not care.

[@avatarmikephantom153]

11:05 it’s actually “Comerica Park”

[@MerelyGifted]

...and Ford Field, not Ford's.

[@Flies2FLL]

"It found itself in a downward spiral of destruction, decay, and rapid abandonment" That explains the whole city, not just Brewster-Douglass......

[@7996hobguy]

But it really helps the algorithm to victimize certain demographics. KZbin is a business first and foremost, and a part of a social engineering effort as well.

[@Flies2FLL]

@@7996hobguy KZbin is NOT part of a social engineering effort.

[@joemcgunagle8146]

@@Flies2FLL Though some areas of the city have seen better days, some areas are quite beautiful. I see a turn around in some areas and Detroit shines up with some encouragement.

[@Flies2FLL]

@@joemcgunagle8146 Heh! Thanks, I needed a good laugh this morning....

[@Styxswimmer]

So many govt projects look good on paper, but then one issue always arises: maintenance. The govt provides the money to build it, but rarely funds its maintenance.

[@alainarchambault2331]

It's politically sexy to build a solution but no one gives a fig for maintenance.

[@chrisclermont456]

The "projects" money was given to millionaire contractor to build them with little to no oversight. Structures were cheaply built and overcrowding was inevitable. They were designed to fail like many public works projects are.

[@aspensulphate]

Government didn't pay for my house, or the maintenance either. That means I HAD TO WORK to be able to afford it. That's what's missing from the equation.

[@mikev4089]

Yeah and also the people living there destroy it.

[@Throawei]

The people actually paying the taxes for maintenance get chased out and then you want to complain about not having money for maintenance. Do we have to just be your parents forever? Clean up all your messes, support grown adults indefinitely? Please.

[@homehere9817]

11:06 it’s Comerica Park, as in Comerica Bank. Thank you for the breakdown ❤

[@kingmidus1032]

I remember visiting my grandma at the Brewsters on the 12th floor I can see Tigers Stadium with the lights on c When the e game was played.

[@krapug11]

As always a well researched story on the downfall of many Housing Projects. I grew up in Newark, and Newark has many high rise, and low rise projects that rivaled those in Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit and beyond. The Hayes Homes, Stella Wright Homes, Columbus Homes and Archbishop Walsh Homes are all stories that need to be documented.

[@douglasharley2440]

detroit in the 1950s was an *amazing* city!...i grew up in lansing from early 1970s-mid-90s, and both detroit and flint's downfall was quite shocking (lansing;s also, but i was too close to see it clearly until i moved away). very glad to hear news that detroit is on the rise again in the 21st century.

[@autobug2]

.............IT IS?!

[@northdetroit7994]

It ain't.

[@douglasharley2440]

@@northdetroit7994 bullshit.

[@northdetroit7994]

@@douglasharley2440 Been there lately? Which area?

[@douglasharley2440]

@@northdetroit7994 i haven't, but my parents and sister have. no idea which parts. i have also read articles in the nytimes, and seen shorts on here.

[@yiinaaxo]

I visited this place before the buildings were torn down. Energy like no other. I miss it.

[@smiles0013]

i believe you made a mistake in your video @5:12 about Fredrick Douglas. you say he was a vice presidential candidate in 1972. don't you mean 1872?

[@lisareed5669]

Frederick Douglass

[@GeeEm1313]

I caught that as well.

[@Nyssa56]

Thank you for making such a fascinating channel, full of stories about places and things I've never heard about.

[@chrisyoung1821]

Thanks fpr the video. As a visitor to Detroit, i was puzzled by this void in the city-scape and this goes a long way to explain it.

[@kevincruise3521]

With going to Spain School in Detroit, it was right across the street from the Brewsters. Everybody warned us kids that weren't from their don't go over there and as I found out good reason LOL that place was pretty tough

[@tonywestvirginia]

Growing up in Detroit in the 60,s Brewster-Douglass was high rise hoods! @11:07 it is Co-merica park.

[@throttleblip1]

And want reparations but ruin every gov housing anywhere they can find them.

[@jaylinbakertrains2834]

I wondering would you like to look into an apartment high rise in Philadelphia called West Park Apts (46th and Market Street). This complex has rich history, also what it was before is ver interesting,US presidential candidates campaigned there,amenities were unmatched in the nation. I promise you won’t regret it- hope you get this

[@autobug2]

I never have seen the words 'rich history' and public housing used in the same sentence. One contradicts the other.

[@sirrichardwhitney5452]

I did some HVAC work there in the early 2000s ,, abandon houses, burt out houses, bullet proof glass at every establishment. Pure Michigan.

[@kimfleury]

@@sirrichardwhitney5452 You mean "Pure Detroit." I'm north of Detroit, and periodically we get immigrants who want to bring that to my city. I don't want that here and don't know anyone who does.

[@DavidLovesJesus]

Thanks!

[@ITSHISTORY]

Welcome!🙏

[@TeaTime-1122]

My cousin lives in the new Brewster's now and they're very decent and better place to live

[@glocksp80smd]

I've played in those so much. It's like a ghost town. There's these towers and there's a little abandoned city right next to it as well

[@jacobwhipple7848]

Then happened the introduction of crack cocaine.

[@anthonytoersh3401]

"The Carter" apartments in every city😢

[@viktorakhmedov3442]

MARIJUANA TOO

[@eriq54321]

They were also painted with lead paint

[@mikedehn8654]

Back then, lead paint was the norm. We didn't know better back then. I imagine they had asbestos there too. ​@@eriq54321

[@Chips2323]

As always Professor Socash great information, I was born in Atlanta back in the 50's (I know its not Detroit) but as a young child around 5 years old I remember living in the Projects in Atlanta, they were brick remember they were 2 story apts also remember very poor run down area,ya even as a kid I knew what was poor, then in 1956 my family we made what I call our Grapes of Wrath move to Calif with a 500 lbs Grandma in the back seat of that 1946/47 Hudson, as always, be Safe and be at Peace...

[@Captainscentsable44]

I always remember that reddish color of herman gardens on joy rd

[@THEWARMANN]

I remember launching mortar fireworks from the roof down to the passing cars on the freeway one night with a pile of friends up there lol.

[@joey193650]

Check out this project housing from when I was a kid. Foundation Park, Chesapeake VA . It has been demolished completely by now I am sure. I remember there was a bus that would ride through after school and during the summer. Like a ice cream truck , but you walked on and they had candy and other snacks as well as ice cream.

[@crippleguy415]

Low income Affordable housing .AKA SLUMS . Never allow them to be built in your neighborhood .

[@chrisclermont456]

12:40 Diana Ross is not a record producer as mentioned, but Smokey Robinson is!! It is hard to accept conclusions made by the makers of this content when it is obvious they know so little about the city of Detroit.

[@viktorakhmedov3442]

STEVIE WONDER TOO

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

Admittedly, that's not what she's known for, but she did produce all her own records (or most of the tracks on each album) while under contract to RCA (1981-87). Smart business move on her part.

[@Ceba-pw8hk]

Agree, and Diana Ross didn't live in the projects. She lived in a single family house a few blocks away.

[@leonb2637]

These projects were intended to keep racial segregation in place in their cities. The high-rises were huge mistakes, basically 'warehousing' people not realizing that people don't like being warehoused. The decline and decentralization industry in cities, need for fewer works due to automation, shifts, the rise of Japanese imports, were also factor that vacated other housing from these projects.

[@DavidYesUCan]

Unions demanding very high wages made the big 3 go other cheaper places to have their automobiles made.

[@dannettejackson202]

@@DavidYesUCan Oh believe me, the Big Three car industries can most definitely afford it with their company profits!

[@knightrider693]

Other countries pack em in with more density then this but they aren't over riddled with drugs and crime. Weird 🤔

[@stevedyer7566]

​​@@DavidYesUCan. David what are discussing? The Big 3 still is concentrated in Detroit. [Ford GM and Chrysler] have more manufacturing plants here then anywhere. I know this bcuz I happily live this.

[@northdetroit7994]

You give one group of men a pile of bricks and you get a city. You give another group of men a city and you get a pile bricks. Detroit.

[@BigKerm]

A more accurate measure is not what one is given, but what is being kept from them. Building structures that look nice without quality education or enough quality jobs will eventually result in failure. And we know of one demographic in particular that has always been (as a collective) segregated from those two crucial standards for functional living in this country. Whenever this particular demographic accomplished setting up their own successful cities, towns & districts, we have witnessed their destruction using mob violence by the dominant demographic (see Tulsa OK, 1921 or Rosewood FL 1923, Wilmington NC 1898 etc). But it's always easier to use political & municipal levers to keep certain communities depressed. They'll eventually collapse in on themselves. If anyone disagrees with this, show me a place & time in the history of America where quality education & jobs were equally available to all demographics, but resulted in slum conditions 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@MyName-pl7zn]

Kiss my azz, Detroit's population moved to the subs leaving a city of 3 million to under 1 million because you could buy a house with a lawn and have a good car to get there as wages increased. Detroit gave many people the opportunity to go from coal miners and farm labor to middle working class, they abandoned the city for more space

[@JwMelo]

Crickets

[@republitarian484]

@@BigKerm . . . always excuses as to that groups failures. Surely this can't be the case in all major cities, countries, continents, etc. If any group is systematically discriminated against these days it is the group that look like our founders. Why then has that group been so successful in sports? Does evolution only work from the neck down or is discrimination selective based on the area or activity?

[@timhinchcliffe5372]

An American calling them "lifts" instead of "elevators"... my mind is blown.

[@richardcranium3579]

We call them “ponds”. You call them “dams”. The dam holds back the pond.

[@timhinchcliffe5372]

@@richardcranium3579 who's "we"? What country?

[@SleepyBoaSnake-ik7bx]

My grandmothers home her whole life she didn't move until they tore the high rises down

[@Mrclutchjcb]

My mom grew up in the Brewsters in the late 60s n 70s n my uncles was pimps n dealers she said it was hell on earth

[@AmariontaeDay]

I waited for this for a long time

[@EricD-j3j]

Been thru there many times,theres still buildings there. Cabrini greene was scariest projects ive been in

[@KingBdizzy]

Love this! Need more Detroit history videos🙌

[@nobody93372]

BS: I am born and raised just outside of Detroit and I was in the army and ground pounded my ass around in an actual war zone. With that nugget of info... There is no way you are seeing me anywhere near this place unless it is a life or death reason and Im wearing body armor. and YES i have actually been to this housing block. and YES this soldier was shitting his pants we were driving past it.

[@Captainscentsable44]

I was a little boy and we would drive past herman gardens. Going to my grandma's house. I always asked dumb questions to my dad. I remember asking him, what will happen if we break down here. Would the people from herman gardens help us out. He looked at me and said. Sure no problem.

[@viktorakhmedov3442]

@@Captainscentsable44 HA!!! Yeah, they'd help you out alright!!! Give you 4 nice cinder blocks after they snag your wheels and spray paint "HONKY LIPS" on the side of your car.

[@unRULYandEDucated]

The rules weren’t relaxed, they were ultimately changed! Husbands no longer were allowed being one MAJOR change. On another note, I remember when they started tearing these down.

[@michaelsteele4587]

Things probably would have remained okay for the original residents if they hadn't added the high rises.

[@jacobsockness571]

Talent like them will never be born again.

[@candynickel]

Or they're being born and don't have access to quality education and healthcare, or they have a lack of opportunities due to their proximity to poverty.

[@thevaultbrotherhood6297]

There use to be a projects building near me. Some guy bought it and kick out all the folks who didn't have a job and was causing all the crime there. So after a month there was the older folks left who retired and the only way to get in their now is by having a job and a work history. The rent is the same as before, 200$ to 800$. But now its safer and cleaner.

[@JaydenHolland-wo4fd]

@@thevaultbrotherhood6297 That's one thing good in this world.

[@williamharris8367]

So he made a bunch of poor, unemployed people homeless! How is that a good thing?

[@christopherterry3943]

I went to Cody high school from 92-95 got kicked out and had to go to Murray wright. Had to fight them Brewster boys and freedom boys and Jeffries boys everyday. Surprised I graduated from there. lol fun times.

[@cplinstructor]

The projects need to come back. The projects became politically incorrect because they were dumps, and hotbeds of crime, due to the mismanagement mentioned in this video (you have to be selective), as a result most have been shutdown and demolished. What the social do gooders did instead was decide to “de-centralize” the projects across the entire city via section 8, the result is blight and falling property values and crime spread out as opposed to being centralized in a contained area. Bringing back the projects would fix this.

[@showmestatefinest5412]

The projects were an experiment and it went as planned. Piling a bunch of poor ppl on top of each other is not a good idea. Section 8/hud private houses is way better option even tho the ppl tear up nice properties.

[@nicholascortez728]

​@@showmestatefinest5412 initially it seems like the idea was building housing to meet the incoming demand due to industrialization and prioritizing family and requiring men (head of the house hold) to have a job seemed to be working. The issue came when they relaxed the rules and even later got rid of them basically making them a place to lock away the poor and pretend they don't exist.

[@stevedyer7566]

That's not a good idea for the reason you just stated about the concentration of criminals. Understand living amongst the concentrated undesirables are good loving people, families children who day in and day out consist of living through daily horror. This can have a negative and or influential effect on children and people development and mobility.

[@jaygee4345]

​@@stevedyer7566Section 8 spreads that horror to far more people.

[@scotthovland7380]

It's amazing proximity to a stadium and arena was viewed as a negative

[@michaelrice9822]

We remodeled the 14 story next to the freeway when Ford Field was being built

[@ThisWorks4Me]

There also was a similar project just west of the Lodge Freeway, south of Forest Ave. These were much closer to the center of the 67 riots. Nobody does well in dense housing. This has been show in models with rats too.

[@kdot3657]

The lesser talked about Jeffries projects.

[@ThisWorks4Me]

@@kdot3657 I couldn't remember their name. There was also a project off of Southfield and Joy Rd. These were two story buildings. Someone did a piece about it. I remember driving by all three.

[@kmatic1981]

@@ThisWorks4Me the Herman Gardens

[@Karen-u4i]

Comisky park where the Detroit Tigers played had lights later on in its existence. Iconic baseball stadium. I saw several World Series games there . Remember seeing The great home run hitter Kirk Gibson great power hitter, when he had healthy legs he could appsalutley fly around the base pads. Very fast and not in the Baseball Hall of Fame he be.

[@shay1116]

Sure about that because Comiskey Park was where the Chicago White Sox played until 1990.

[@big6487]

Please do a story about the Herman Garden projects in Detroit and its history.

[@Sacto1654]

I wonder why there wasn't a plan to completely rehabilitate these towers into a modern form. Fully modernized, the Douglas Housing Project now would command top dollar for each single residence in 2024.

[@ronaldraygun3591]

It probably cost too much especially if they had to remove lead paint

[@throttleblip1]

Detroit is over hyped and over valued. Until there is a cultural mindset change Detroits growth doesn't look good

[@HHSGDFootballJPD]

By the time they finished expanding the area, Detroit's city population was 1.8 million people. When they finished tearing it down in the 2010s, it was 775 thousand. They probably didn't have the demand for so many years to refurbish them.

[@stevedyer7566]

​@@throttleblip1you are entitled to your opinion because you don't know what it is

[@stevedyer7566]

​@@throttleblip1ok, I will bite. What are you basing your opinion on?

[@polarlicht4758]

Can you do a video on the Church Hill Tunnel in Richmond VA?

[@michaelwhite2823]

It got people out of the slums but people dont appreciate anything free or take care of it.

[@applegal3058]

I truly do not understand that mentality. No matter who owns something, I can't fathom destroying it except for normal wear or by accident. Perhaps it was my upbringing? Same thing with working. There is no job below me...anything that needs doing is worth doing it right. I did grow up in a poor household, but we were never destitute to the point of starvation or homelessness. In saying that, my mom went without so we could eat more or have small luxury.. Saving and spending wisely was ingrained in me, and damaging something for no reason was a shameful waste.

[@Slappysan]

​@@applegal3058"Mentality" as if this video actually got into that.

[@applegal3058]

@@Slappysan no, I'm commenting on the original poster's comment...how some people don't care for things when they come free...

[@michaelwhite2823]

@@lorankutheresistable Some people are never happy and ruin everything, even by fire. It still happens today. The people not even YOU want to live near.

[@Miguel_El_Chileno]

What has happened to the cost of housing since 1980s ?!

[@weirdalfan37]

The inevitable, desired, and actively sought spiral of capitalism

[@AdmiralJT]

Fed and government, but yeah lets blame capitalism lmao... Capitalism is the thing that creates wealth, which we have shifted to a corporate socialist system... Real reason for costs skyrocketing, gov and fed devalues currency via inflation (printing more money) meaning higher costs.

[@GeeEm1313]

False appraisals and overvaluation of real estate.

[@daniels.3062]

This project was planned, build, and managed by the government, but somehow you blame capitalism?!?!

[@Miguel_El_Chileno]

Please use Michael Hudson and Rentier Capitalism as Search Keywords

[@beaushaver3779]

It's not Comercial Park it's Comerica Park.

[@MrCtsSteve]

It's a damn shame whats happened to Detroit . From a population of just under 2 million which peaked in the 50's down to around 600,000 today .

[@stevedyer7566]

Yes it was. It was many mistakes made. Detroit is being revitalized and it feels gooood!

[@nickk05281982]

They are making more future projects today. Forced subsidized housing apartments. But worse yet they aren’t even making them cheaply

[@w123benzman]

"The Pj's" modeled the set after these project structures

[@inthemixwithleahbpodcast]

That was my show!

[@w123benzman]

@@inthemixwithleahbpodcast one of the top shows ever developed.. Well written, well casted... Just fantastic

[@Tex-qt8vc]

So you give people housing for free you don’t make them maintain it. You don’t make them work. You don’t make them do anything like a normal homeowner would do. And that’s surprises you that they don’t maintain it.

[@snarkmark2806]

You’re right. Those 10th floor residents have really let their lawns go.

[@chanraedouglas7768]

The housing was built to keep Blacks concentrated in one area after their enclave was destroyed.. Residents were required to have 1 working adult to live there.. Suburbanites were given subsidies to live outside the city, so no one was getting anything "free"...

[@Ceba-pw8hk]

​@chanraedouglas7768 I was born and raised in Detroit. We moved out of the city in 1965 when I was in my teens. We never received a subsidy to move out.

[@marcfromatl125]

@@Ceba-pw8hk But you had the option to move wherever you pleased. Everyone didn’t have that option.

[@Adiscretefirm]

There are apartments and condos right next to many stadiums, why was noise an issue here?

[@sccarguy8242]

I would love to see your take on Coop City in the Bronx… tons of interesting history, as a former tenant it would be cool to see your take on things.

[@TheMightyCookieShow]

I don't know if I would call those skyscrapers iconic looking they just look like regular old brick buildings to me and I'm not crying me tears that they're gone no iconic measures have been lost here

[@atomic_wait]

They would have been striking and modern looking in the 1930s I suppose, 90 years ago.

[@louisstanko86]

When these were built buildings over 10 stories tall were considered skyscrapers, today it’s over 40 😊

[@throttleblip1]

Detroit barely has any sky scrapers since there is little invest from it's actual citizens...

[@PamelaStark-q8z]

Hey Pam here Lived In Detroit projects called Parkside projects Loved living there tons of friends Swimming pool Ice skating Park Set up by Elenor Rosevelt In 40s Crime yes But u knew where to avoid 5 years Would love to hear from anyone Oddly went to private school

[@HighPowerOptionsTrades]

Alvin “Blue” Lewis who fought Ali in Ireland is from there also 🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁

[@dannydaw59]

I think there was a gym with boxing rings real close to those housing projects. Joe Louis visited in the early years of it.

[@stevedyer7566]

Yes, Wheeler Rec. Center, was at the heart of the Brewster projects community. It produced many talented people.

[@washingtondc9290]

Anacostia in Southeast Washington DC, which is where I grew up, and is where Frederick Douglass house is, my 6 grade graduation was in Frederick Douglas front yard lol

[@inthemixwithleahbpodcast]

As a Detroiter, thank you for this video!❤

[@giovannicarter3076]

Dang didnt know they were built before the projects in Chicago

[@throttleblip1]

Both huge wastes of time and money since they became run down by the tenants.

[@giovannicarter3076]

@throttleblip1 rather live there than EP Island

[@chicoredd7414]

@giovannicarter3076 abla homes in the chi was built in 1937

[@uncleleroyshoodoocorner8113]

@@throttleblip1 don’t do that

[@BPoissant]

I hope that your reports of Detroit include the story of the Fox Theater. The renovation of that building sparked the entire sports and entertainment district that exist today.

[@DowStUnD86]

@@BPoissant Why don't you just make a video?

[@freerbt4839]

NYCHA in NYC is also notorious and SAD.

[@durango8882]

I worked across the street from Parkside projects.

[@HORSEYANIME2024]

Pls do a video on forgotten history of Lansing Michigan

[@Jaymoe-lh6rl]

Don't nobody care about Lansing.. 😂😂

[@viktorakhmedov3442]

1998: I broke down at Jolly and Waverly and came back 20 mins later and my Ford Escort was up on blocks.

[@peterchaloner2877]

"Another Martini for Mother Cabrini." Lenny Bruce, memorialising the charitable nun.

[@duaneayers6117]

The reasons why these buildings became dilapidated slums. It was because the government didn't take care of the maintenance and the people living in them. It wasn't a win win for no one.

[@mikev4089]

Also, the animals living there destroyed it.

[@bigscores7237]

Yeah that's a good point. The reason pigs don't fly is because the government didn't take care of the maintenance of the nests.

[@TheGbelcher]

Let me guess, the automotive plants closed.

[@stevedyer7566]

Nope

[@Zip_Zero_ZILCH]

Now they're putting in all these new condos to LCA Comerica and Ford Field so the noise pollution doesn't make any sense

[@GeeEm1313]

5:53 they kook really nice.

[@stevestreet2825]

Labarge thank You Great Video

[@imeechie8917]

Cabrini green was americas most notorious housing projects

[@AndrewLachowicz-r9i]

Absolutely fascinating. Detroit has such an iconic aura about. I think of it as the world’s first modern city. And then there is the decline and like a phoenix, rising again. No other city like it.

[@abigalanderson7494]

I can see why Axel Foley joined the Detroit police department in 1983🚔

[@cherrylove3656]

This is really sad it's sad about Detroit and general what it was and what it became

[@josephpiskac2781]

Everything built should be assigned a service life schedule for modification and replacement. Housing should be integrated with economic resources.

[@lance2465]

It’s Comerica Park, come on do a little more research.

[@choossuck7653]

Fun fact: Detroit population is very very similar to Boston

[@chriswil5919]

Now ! But In the 50s 60s70s80s90s2000s Detroit was bigger..

[@viktorakhmedov3442]

Fun fact: Detroit population is much friendlier than Boston

[@tiffanyterscheckii990]

5:12 bruh😂

[@HORSEYANIME2024]

Pls do a video on frank llyod wright Milwaukee Wisconsin Munkwitz Duplexes

[@laurabentzinger200]

Ours was pruitt igo and there was no socail proxies in these developments thats why the tenants were prone to aggression.

[@Charmedone9805]

what is it with Housing Projects failing in all these cities yet NYC somehow seems to hang on to theirs.

[@Pits750]

We all know whh it turned to a crime and desolate place, look st the demographics there vs places thst thrived. Tupac said it best "i wont conceal the fact, the penetentiary is packed and its filled with......"

[@jdl7211]

The last Republican mayor of Detroit was in 1962. Its been led by Democrats since then. 2+2 always equals 4.😊😊

[@meleepinata]

@@jdl7211 Detroit was a banana Republic as far as manufacturing is concerned. The great depression killed off half their auto makers. Perhaps they should've diversified their markets. Buffalo took a crater when Bethlehem steel closed but they survived because there were still lots of other jobs.

[@andrewadoranti1423]

@@jdl7211 ironic because Detroit has seen a pretty significant increase in economic activity under Mike Duggan-- a Democrat.

[@Captain_Char]

and now we're in an era were we need housing again the likes of that again

[@user-zx8de8op9l]

Well done Pruitt Igoe was the same way 1950's-1972

[@Kevinb1821]

So again. They were given nice homes. Then didn’t take care of and they turned to dirty gross homes. A town is the sum of its people.

[@leeshepherd9802]

You dont appreciate what you have unless you toil and struggle for it.. Handouts(not helping hand) benefits nobody in long run..