Detroit Timeline HD

[@billfivehouse7268]

I had to quit halfway through. too depressing

[@zionistplotagainstbaltimor693]

i know what you mean ...

[@a.salmon8193]

bill fivehouse me too.

[@unknownprofiler5792]

The music just adds on to it

[@xwvi]

I agree

[@ScorpioBornIn69]

And all of this was just in 2 to 6 year period. The Great Recession was the last cause of this.

[@zhaydeey]

What really makes me even sadder about this whole situation is that a lot of these homes are historic and all built almost if not more than a century ago

[@samharris4680]

@@daleslover2771 Absolutely correct. I think what saddens people the most when viewing these videos are the death of memories. All the families raised and memories made in those houses. Kids riding their bikes thru pristine tree lined streets, Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc. All those little corner stores and neighborhood bars, shuttered. It really does make me depressed.

[@donpainter1]

that's true but the worst thing is we have lost all respect for our fellow people , we don't care abut things we don't live in the problem is this is like a contagious plague , growing bigger and bigger. and faster and faster.

[@billlombard9911]

@@donpainter1 very true no one cares

[@jeffwessel496]

They seem to burn shit as a pass time

[@hrvojemladinic7469]

I am really sad to these ruins but what is historic about a century old house? Where I come from, there are houses from the 3rd B.C. and most of the houses are century old

[@georgebliss5134]

Imagine buying a house, paying the mortgage for twenty years, and then finding out your house has zero resale value.

[@leopardcubpupkryky6940]

Imagine posting a less obvious comment.

[@shanemarcotte2062]

@@leopardcubpupkryky6940 Imagine STFU!!

[@nemesis656]

@@leopardcubpupkryky6940 Imagine being this much of a douchebag. Just quit commenting.

[@Ostan-jw2bg]

@@leopardcubpupkryky6940 imagine dragons

[@rupe53]

George ... happens all the time in blighted areas. The neighborhood goes down hill because the local economy fails and one by one the empty homes burn or become vandalized. Pretty soon the only occupied home is worth a fraction of what it could have been, but nobody wants to buy a house there. Generally the only home left is someone who had a job where the economy doesn't matter (fire, police, teacher, mail carrier) and they were able to pay their bills. Even a retried person might still have an income that's more than someone who is out of work, so keeps paying the bills... and staying in their home.... till something like this happens.

[@thinkinoftomorrow]

I moved out of Detroit in 2010. Lived in the same house for 28 yrs of my life until I moved down south. Went back last year and broke down in tears when I saw the condition my childhood home was in. I know they're building up & doing quite a bit in the downtown area but they haven't touched the inner city neighborhoods. Can't see myself ever moving back.

[@stephenbruce5431]

Dayna Marie So sad😢

[@ScorpioBornIn69]

Many have moved out and out of state down south to states like Georgia and Florida. Florida's economy relies mostly on tourism and then agriculture. Florida could fall into a similar fate if the red tide epidemic is not solved that has been keeping tourists from coming, mainly to coastal areas and on the gulf coast. Many businesses there will close down and move out and the jobs will be lost causing many to leave their homes.

[@bluebo1212]

Thanks for helping to make Arizona blue

[@buckyoung4578]

Best thing you ever can do besides moving to the South is change your voter registration from Democrat to Republican!

[@christophermapes5176]

@@buckyoung4578, that's the dumbest f**king thing I've ever heard.

[@billcordell9797]

Heartbreaking to see this. Some of those homes you could tell were so loved and cared for with perfect lawns and nicely painted. Just terrible what happened to Detroit

[@SkitBitProduction]

Some of them have been rebuilt in last few years

[@surferbri5346]

Detroit chose social values over prosperity, detroit got what it voted for, sorry

[@chientimeide]

@@surferbri5346 , No; just the opposite.. "Prosperity" for the few who gut public works and those sending jobs away. It's unclear what you mean by "social values". but it is not contrary or detrimental to prosperity.

[@chientimeide]

Greed at the expense of others and prosperity used to be a bad thing according to decent social values.

[@stevebyberg7866]

Very Sad. Such a beautiful and rich history only to look like a 3rd world country

[@gra-emed3617]

Wow so many beautiful properties gone to ruin. Trying to imagine what these neighbourhoods would have been like in the 40s and 50s. Comfortable, middle class? Now literally destroyed to rubble. Really sad

[@lewisner]

A shiny Plymouth Fury or Buick being polished on Sunday while Elvis blasted from the radio.

[@kaiserbillxiv1245]

My brother was at a training course in Bellingham Wa. in the 90's and there was a woman there from Detroit and she told him that once a gang moves into a neighborhood, the property values drop to zero.

[@MyTakeonliberty]

How 'bout now? I suspect someone could almost buy all of Detroit for a $20 bill.

[@Random-rt5ec]

Great point - I grew up 35 miles south of Boston, MA in a quiet area with mostly summer type homes/cottages. Pretty much zero crime but then one day a Hell's Angles like group rented/took over an unoccupied home & suddenly it was like living in hell. Gun shots, drugs, wild parties, loud cars, groups of bikers raiding the town, etc..

[@jeremylarson6267]

@@thegreatape884 - i think random was referring to liberals when he wrote hell's angels like group

[@somethingserious4090]

Yeah well I m sure your brother left out the part about the toxic water there that was killing people and permanently affecting the health of their children. Was a real big stink about it on the news maybe your news source didn’t cover the story….🙄

[@kaiserbillxiv1245]

@@somethingserious4090 He is from Vancouver taking a training course. This was in the 90s.

[@fredicagoillanoise1309]

Sad to see all those houses and neighborhoods destroyed like that. Those were once foundations of happy times and memories just destroyed. Damn.....

[@antonspeed4940]

Agree. Very sad to see and I also try to imagine and look up good old days (online only so far :)

[@sarjim4381]

That's the worst part. Those homes help generation of families that were the salvation of Detroit if they could have stayed. Unfortunately, that was not to be. I grew up in Cleveland, and the same rot has happened there. Almost a million people in 1950 and 388,000 in 2015. That's homes and infrastructure for 600,000 people that are no longer there.

[@SURENITY]

@@sarjim4381 That is terrible.

[@bigboxes]

@@sarjim4381 I've been to Rome. It's not unique. Just difference of times.

[@Mw-tr2oz]

That's what happens when a city turns black

[@bobhogg4174]

Diversity is our strength is coming to your neighborhood next.

[@hanklin0707]

It's amazing what can happen in a few years. Some of these homes were well maintained. It's really a shame.

[@LucasFernandez-fk8se]

hanklin0707 I wouldn't say that but they were barely livable in the beginning

[@youdagoob]

Which ones were maintained?

[@xwvi]

I agree.

[@jake_of_the_jungle9840]

A lot of those houses were in very good shape in 2009 and goes to shit from their. Maybe if young people would save these neighborhoods instead of paying rent to own nothing. It’s a shame.

[@gbaker9295]

I'm guessing some were insured and a fire just happened to burn them. Fraud ?

[@nancybrouse6220]

Everyone knows what caused this and it was not just loss of jobs or industry.

[@1980Triumph]

I am sure you are blaming black people or Democrats well what about in places like West Virginia where they are in the same situation due to a lack of jobs and industry, do they get a pass because they are a majority white??

[@ultragamer4960]

1980Triumph No you are getting it wrong. Yes Democrats destroy places. I’m from California and let me tell you that our idiot governor and democrats are destroying this state. In West Virginia there were less jobs because of Obama and pressure from the environmentalists.

[@jimjones8268]

West Virginia is now worse since trump got in ha ha

[@lexdee523]

@@1980Triumph Thank you!

[@haveahappyday1749]

@@1980Triumph Drugs and poverty have no color or political view.

[@cherylsmith4826]

Sad to think people's lives totally erased by decay. Breaks my heart to see some of these idyllic streets gone. I think about the everyday happenings that went on there- kids playing on the sidewalks, the laughing & chatter between neighbors, clothes hanging in the back yard... holidays...

[@terrytucker5859]

It's disturbing to see what animals can do to a city!

[@chieftp]

actually a beaver would be building something.

[@handsolo9556]

Not literaly 'animals' but the lowest kind of human capable of physical activity. Chieftp, also include ant hills and bee hives. Yes, these species are more organized and productive than Detroit.

[@terrytucker5859]

Your right, I was insulting the 4 legged kind!

[@qngelicgarden]

Terry Tucker I don’t understand what happened I’m so confused

[@boris82much94]

They have no one to blame but themselves. No one.

[@JMH702]

Democrats

[@rahoffman123]

Who are we blaming it aint whit folks

[@ironcast]

It looks like they just decide---"uh, I'm bored today. I know, let's burn the house down, that will be fun"

[@STScott-qo4pw]

long haul trucker here. i have spent many layovers in downtown (hamtramck) waiting for USDA inspections. got talking to all sorts of folks that own restaurants, diners, work in small shops, other drivers. literally, what you wrote happens - the lowlifery gets bored the night before halloween and one year 600 houses went up in smoke that night. they call it "gate night". no idea where the term comes from...

[@poriland41]

Working and middle class out, welfare and needle class in. This is the deadly and sad reality of sanctuary cities.

[@Inkling777]

Those front porches say a lot. They suggest that at one time there was such a strong sense of community and safety in those neighborhoods that people would sit out on them in the evenings. What's most depressing about these pictures isn't the derelict or burned down buildings. It's that real estate in the city has become so worthless, those buildings are not being repaired or replaced.

[@TheBizziniss]

For decades there were so many people in Detroit and so few houses that where one lived and and whether they could get a house were real big issues. Now there’s so few people that they can’t even fill the homes available.

[@DavidDuncanscalemodels]

From the future. In 2021. It hasn’t got any better. It’s actually worse. Much worse.

[@Lunar_Capital]

That’s a crying shame man…

[@kieferam5593]

7:16 a fucking mini castle burned to the ground. What a shame.

[@jamesklein2191]

This is what happens when the good people leave and the lawless are left to themselves.

[@Kevin-yh9yt]

Also what happens when good middle class JOBS leave. These neighborhoods didnt deteriorate in a vacuum.

[@kathy2trips]

@@gkelley77 You cant afford to take care of your home if there's nowhere to work.

[@bigboxes]

You mean the white people? Maybe you just outright say it.

[@ericw3229]

@@Kevin-yh9yt True a lot of people left the city but where did they go? To new clean safe suburbs. So many talk about jobs at the car companies but a bigger loss were the Auto suppliers.So many automotive suppliers went under or moved offshore due imports Metro Detroit had several large steel plants employing thousands directly and more indirectly. They went under due to bad trade policy.

[@sparkyblazeup1]

@@bigboxes Okay then - the white people left and this is what happened ...

[@steveperuski5547]

A lot of those larger homes in these neighborhoods, we’re just beautiful inside, lots of woodwork and such

[@antonspeed4940]

Just wanna thank you for all comments. Could not predict the response when I made this collage video. Many hours of work but fun because obsession mania. "Box alarm", history, even a Book of a firemans lifestory aso :) Watch BURN, One year on the frontlines of the battle to save Detroit

[@davidconley3610]

Keep voting in people like the governor you have now. Nothing will ever change!

[@freshfritz4649]

Hannity has turned your brain to mush.

[@SH00T_TH3PUMP]

Liberal utopia.

[@sabinacle1529]

So sad to see all those beautiful homes come to ruin

[@cthunter41]

Amazing how fast mother nature takes back what is hers.

[@peartfaldo]

Gee...you can really see the hope and "change"!!!!

[@sixmile2360]

There is hope and there is definitely change for the better. I live in the city. I have been through the best and the worst of times. Try you tubing Detroit come back. Every day there are new announcements. New condominiums. Companies moving back into the city. New retail and hotels. There is hope. But there are still problems. Crime, violence and poor schools but people are pulling together. We are used to these kinds of videos and we are used to outsiders being snide and condescending. Just watch. In five years we will be celebrating a great American comeback. It's already happening.

[@calibean7736]

Six Mile There is also change in my small town of Fresno CA . A lot of new businesses like Amazon. Hope for better times in this beautiful old city.

[@sixmile2360]

Cali Bean Good luck to Fresno. The lesson seems to be never give up and dont listen to the trolls.

[@ultragamer4960]

Cali Bean Fresno isn’t small (well compared to the cities in the rest of the valley) yeah I have seen changes for the better too.

[@LAstn-k7d]

Yeah thanks to the republican tea party

[@inkydoug]

I bought an old radio at an estate sale and it had the first owners name and address on the back. It was in Detroit. I looked it up on Google street view. The whole neighborhood was a barren field with some buildings off in the distance.

[@roadwarrior114]

Which neighborhood/street was it?

[@inkydoug]

@@roadwarrior114 I sold that radio years ago on Ebay, but I think I remember Trumbull was the name of the street.

[@PfctvsPontivsPilatvs]

1:06 Nice suburban street. 1:10 WHAT HAPPENED!? (Of course I know what happened.)

[@gagespanny3166]

The recession caused all of this. It would probably be a lot worse if Obama didn't bail out GM tbh.

[@CC2755]

We all know what happened. It started with mayor Coleman Young.

[@micahbell9093]

Democraps

[@williamschultz104]

Gage Spanny Hava nother tall glass o coolaid Gage!

[@ironcast]

Yomama didn't do anything for Detroit or anyone else in this country. LOL

[@michaelsublet3283]

Yet they keep Voting for the same people over and over who's Policies caused all of this.

[@danrolli3576]

Maybe the votes are hijacked

[@loisaustin6200]

Demonrats, of course.

[@varrick1226]

Because these are uneducated people who don't want to work. They love welfare and know democrats will continue to give it to them.

[@pwrfl2357]

Yeah cause we know there is no one on welfare in red states……..

[@lewisner]

Great video, devastating images and haunting music.

[@arnoshroif4743]

Jesus Christ i thought Eastern Europeans were bad, but this.......this is beyond comprehension.

[@alexanderryan1176]

These guys are 10x worse.

[@jonel5001]

Fire is an attractive element for a lower level of life. So very sad.

[@Fifty1100times]

Saw a documentary on the auto industry. The CEO of General Motors Ford and Chrysler thought Americans would always buy American made cars so they saw no need to make them better than the Japanese. They were wrong. This is what happens to a city when it puts all of it's energy in one industry.

[@alexanderryan1176]

It's REALLY not that simple.

[@TheBizziniss]

It’s more than that. The factories were moving out since the 50s. Ford hadn’t manufactured a car in Detroit since the 1920s. They just kept moving farther and farther away and now they are moving to different countries. Some of it had to do with the very high cost of labor for what is essentially unskilled assembly jobs. Some of it has to do with environmental regulations, which they don’t have in China and not many in Mexico. Some of it had to do with automation and no one can complain about that because the car itself was a form of automation, instead of relying on horses. But most of it that remained was about corruption, and the car companies would rather pay off the Chinese and Mexican governments than the one I Detroit, considering the cost of labor is so much cheaper, no one can strike there and they don’t get sued into oblivion when they accidentally (or intentionally) dump chemicals into the surrounding areas or the air. A lot of the factories in Detroit were surrounded by neighborhoods. There’s a lot that went into this.

[@fuwa9616]

Getting tired of these boomer explanations, there is a city near it in Canada called Windsor that was also the heart of car manufacturing. Wanna know why Windsor isn't like Detroit? Because there were no Africans there.

[@barttaylor1383]

I'm impressed with the restoration efforts on some of those old houses. They really take a lot of pride in they're neighborhoods there.

[@rolandangler]

So many of these building destroyed by fire. Are the locals remaining there burning them down deliberately? The scale of the damage and destruction is horrifying.

[@STScott-qo4pw]

when someone does show up first thing noticed about 12 yrs ago were the staggering number of bodies recovered. gangs and others were using the abandoned houses to stash bodies.

[@xxZerosumxx]

homeless people use them and they start fires inside the home to stay warm during the winter. Some catch fire after leaving the fire unattended.

[@cattycorner8]

For decades, every Halloween was called Devil's Night in Detroit because kids went around burning houses down.

[@bruceburns1672]

One can only imagine how the Chinese now portray America using scenes like Detroit and then bragging about their Supperiority as a system .

[@jeremylarson6267]

and one can only imagine how americans portray china using selected scenes

[@bruceburns1672]

@@jeremylarson6267 China was one humungous backward poverty stricken Shithole till Bill Clinton in his wisdom allowed China to join the international trade system without policing the Gangster government , and like everything else in the modern world China contributed nothing but able to then get access to everybody elses market and then systematically gut their , manufacturing through state Capitalism and slave labor rates , brilliantly cunning .

[@KittensgiveMorbogas]

@@bruceburns1672 -< this guy gets it!

[@shawnoneil2046]

Bruce burns Who knows? maybe they're right .... we're just too stupid to do the right thing apparently.

[@jeremylarson6267]

@@bruceburns1672 - thanks for stepping forward to give the american potrayal of china using a selected scene, as i mentioned

[@radar_the_fox]

This is sad thies people in Detroit have no respect

[@craigx1433]

WHITE FLIGHT...CAN YOU BLAME THEM?

[@markr8755]

The problem here is they are now all moving in to the suburbs. Couple more years and we can take the city back as they will have all left for greener pastures to burn....

[@akillerpacman1709]

Why can’t we have the *white fight* instead huh?

[@Charliedavis14744]

BLACK SMACK VS WHITE FLIGHT

[@bluebo1212]

@@markr8755 Like Eastpointe. Eastpointe kept the East Detroit name for their school district and that helped to bring in Detroiters in the long run.

[@markr8755]

@@bluebo1212 Yep and now Eastpointe is turning in to Detroit and 10 Mile is the new 8 Mile...

[@patsgarage8593]

I usually dont like picture based videos but this one was amazing. Its so sad to see the how quick these beautiful structures went into a state of decay. Great job!!

[@billlombard9911]

So sad , so many memories gone , Christmas , thanksgiving , so many families and children grew up there . All gone , beautiful homes that could have lasted for 200 years even more totally destroyed

[@ScorpioBornIn69]

Just unreal to see a downfall of once great city that was a auto industrial might boom town. It all started in the late '60s and '70s when political corruption and foreign competition came that began it's downfall.

[@wiibaron]

UAW killed Detroit. Overpaid and underworked drunk/stoned people allowed to build shitty cars that Americans finally got sick of buying. Now the foreign owned auto factories are spread out over the US, so Detroit will never come back.

[@georgesotiroff5080]

Dear wiibaron, After WWII Detroit had no competition. The factories of Europe and Japan had been bombed into oblivion. The US continued to manufacture with older technology. By 1970 Japan (and Germany) had built new factories with the latest technology. Detroit believed that it could continue to dictate what the American consumer would like in a car. Japan researched carefully what the American consumer was seeking in terms of features on his car and built a product to suit. In 1960 every car on the road was a Chevrolet. Today every car on the road is a Toyota Camry. That’s not the fault of the UAW.

[@johnwalters978]

@@georgesotiroff5080 Thank you. but they'll never believe it.

[@leehughes5336]

GET YOUR FACT'S STRAIGHT.... THIS WAS (DONE) AND ACCOMPLISHED OVER A CONTINUOUS-PERIOD OF TIME.... LET'S SAY (40 PLUS) OR MORE YEAR'S .... STRAIGHT-OUT (DIS-RESPECT) ANIMOSITY- VENGEANCE-HATERED AND A TOTAL LACK-OF -RESPECT FOR (HUMAN-LIFE ) . AND IAM TALKING ABOUT THE (VIOLENT) - CRIME RATE, PREDOMINANTLY (MURDER).... I THINK MY COMMENT IS ON WHAT YOU WOULD SAY THE (CORRECT-TRUTHFUL) SIDE .... IAM 66 YEAR'S-OLD NOW, AND STILL IN THE CITY.... AND I WILL TELL-YOU THIS SITUATION (IS) IT-SEEM'S-LIKE (GETTING-WORSE).... AND I ALSO THINK AND BELIEVE (I'M SORRY TO SAY) THIS IS GOING ON (ALL-ACROSS) THE UNITED STATES .... IT JUST HAPPENED TO HAVE GOT IT'S START-BEGINING'S RIGHT-HERE.... (GOD-SAVE-US-FROM-OUR-SINFULLNESS), AMEN.

[@razony]

I see Portland, Or looking like this in the near future.

[@Frostified]

This is Americas future as a whole.

[@cyclops9125]

San francisco too

[@razony]

@@cyclops9125 All west coast cities for that matter. Clock is ticking...

[@tobinprowant2971]

how the hell could the people that ran this city allow it to fall into the tenth level of hell

[@sarjim4381]

Corruption, mismanagement, and theft.

[@shakespeare_hall4788]

Very simple really Stage 1. close all the factories and lay off all the workers ! Stage 2. all the white people who want to work left town looking for opportunity elsewhere . Stage 3. Only Black people are left here because they have no money coz they don't save anything so they couldn't leave and anyway they don't wanna work and or too lazy to work so they got no where to go ! Stage 4. Society and the constructed environment starts to fall apart because there are no white people left to hold it together and fix shit ! (eg. Black people don't know nothing about repair and maintenance or putting it into action ) Stage 5. they start stripping the buildings of anything they can sell to buy drugs or guns . End result is Ghetto ! same as their home country ! Now watch the double impact of incoming Muslim Migrants hell bent on making sure America is exactly the same as the Filthy shithole they left behind ! And they call us the Infidels !

[@chieftp]

actually, this one goes to 11

[@odeiup]

Bradley Goodchild dude,look at Eastern Europe ,and some Asian countries

[@anniebellemiller2986]

Detroit hit rock bottom. Then it discovered that rock bottom has a basement.

[@ghost-ez2zn]

Some of those homes looked like they were still being lived in and cared for. Sad.

[@griffon129]

Man diversity is great huh?

[@dogon3]

What are you talking about? All that is here is one type of people; the poor.

[@griffon129]

dogon3 How did they get that way??? Who is making it worse???

[@dogon3]

Once corporations took their jobs South, thousands who could do so left, along with all their money and affluence. What's left are those so socially impoverished, they cannot leave. I knew old people who attempted to sell their homes, but the amount they could get was so little that they decided to remain in their property at valuations less than they had paid. They could not relocate anywhere else for that price and finally passed away; their properties finally falling into ruin.

[@mistermood4164]

Detroit isn't very diverse.

[@MooPotPie]

Bingo! See also Gary, Indiana, Camden, NJ and (especially) East St. Louis, Illinois for other drastic examples of this.

[@lilhomie4502]

5:57 My Cousin and his family used to live in this apartment back in 2005-2010 until they moved in 2011 all the tenants left due to crime rising high the same year the apartment was damaged by a fire from a arsonists it was left to decay and become abandoned until it was torn down in 2017 as of 2022 new apartments are being built in that area such depressing seeing how much the city been through I was born and raised all my life in Detroit now I live in miles away from Detroit

[@unclespeedy]

Welcome to America. This is the new normal. DC, NYC, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit... ... .... Many predicted this would happen and now that it has, it's just the new normal,. Pass the blame wherever you like, but, HELLO, I'm seeing a pattern. It wasn't very long ago, when NYC was a fairly safe place to be.

[@andyking9673]

NYC is safer than New Orleans or Nashville

[@InspectorSplatter]

If you think NYC is bad now it way worse in the 70s-Mid90s. There was only 400 murders last year compared to 2,245 in 1990 which also had over 100,000 robberies and burglaries.

[@sammiedav1053]

It is so SAD! It seems most are burned, fire set in the hands of PEOPLE causing this destruction. I'm wondering what happened to those home owners that tried their best to save their home and lost the battle. SAD

[@Michael-we9vp]

I was born in a small two story horuse on Meyers near 7 mile Rd. We had neighbors with horses and barns in the mid 50s- early 60s....

[@DeclanTrippier419]

Damn, a lot of these buildings already looked bad in the 'before' pictures

[@MrRudyc]

perfect example of liberalism letting the animals run wild! Be very concerned America.

[@williamschultz104]

MrRudyc what a paradise the leftwing has created and they want to blame the right. Hasn't been a republican elected in Detroit in over 50 years!

[@talusranch990]

Jo Ubi no..... Fuck you

[@williamschultz104]

Dave Haskell 👍

[@MrRudyc]

nice. how bright you are.

[@stagename1031]

Please tell me what he said that is racist?

[@r.a.6459]

It's amazing to see how nature took over everything after just a few years of abandonment. Detroit soon becomes a jungle, real jungle, full of flora and fauna.

[@____________________________.x]

real jungle animals too

[@wbc8644]

It will soon become a jungle! Wealthy suburbs and downtown are doing well however! It’s Just the inner city like southwest are the poorest areas

[@jppurves7837]

Detroit has been in a tenuous financial situation for decades. The reliance on one industry that started to slide in the 1970's, then the nail in the coffin was the mortgage crisis in 2008.

[@KB4QAA]

Detroit population began declining after 1950.

[@wiibaron]

They need to bulldoze entire square miles and start over. The water, gas, electric, streets, infrastructure is still there, so it wouldn't be that hard to rebuild neighborhoods from scratch. But they would have to fence/gate every new block to keep the vermin humans from getting in.

[@chieftp]

start what over?

[@LongIslandCityLayout]

0:30 that has to be one of the saddest transitions in the whole video. A row of well-kept houses with neatly mowed lawns turned into trash in just 4 years...

[@wolfgameplays3291]

Its crazy how day by day nothing changes, But when you look back a few years later everything is different. -a random dude on the internet

[@mutante7714]

it amazes me how nature reclaim every inch of manmade landscape once humans are gone...

[@craiggillett5985]

This is quite disturbing, incredible how quickly these neighbourhoods changed, some of these old homes are fantastic examples of inner city character ‘tiny homes’

[@_thebusphotograher_cali]

The good ole days of Detroit are over! No hope all though some companies did come back but going back to 1950s and 1960s will never reach the max

[@EdwardYaekle]

All America will likely soon end up like this. Grandmaster Flash & TFF gave us The Message 30+ years ago, but there's still broken glass, everywhere...

[@mr.bimmler5714]

+City Expedia ur an idiot

[@LucasFernandez-fk8se]

Art, Music and History no it won't detroit is a special kind of shit hole its completely liberal run that's why it's like this

[@micheleellis4074]

It's hell up here on earth. Blackey destroys everything he touches and creates a scorched earth. Look at Somalia?

[@ben1976morris]

Very depressing. If it wasn't for idiots vandalising and burning all these amazing homes down they could be the perfect haven for all the homeless.

[@chuckf3109]

The homeless live in them regardless of condition. They call them abandominiums.

[@k.alicepritchett4638]

I grew up in East St. Louis, Illinois, Population in the 1960s was about 85K, now, it is about 15K. The street/neighborhood where my house was, is all woods. I mean, a virtual forest. Nothing is left even resembling a neighborhood which had several homes within it. No vacant lots, burned houses, etc. All were kept up nicely by the people who owned them in the 1960s. As for the other streets/blocks which housed, at one time, homes, convenience stores, taverns, restaurants, etc., there is nothing but blocks of FOREST. It is sad when industry leaves and the population moves to other areas for jobs. Some cities, big & small, are becoming ghost towns in America.

[@Notrocketscience101]

The industry didn’t leave, bad people moved in and ruined the city.

[@SignalCorps1]

It’s hard to believe that in the 50s when all American cars were built in Detroit and the MoTown was the hit sound that Detroit had the highest standard of living of any city in the US. Higher than NY, LA, SF, and every other city

[@shawnoneil2046]

Very true.

[@juanme555]

not higher than NYC

[@TheBizziniss]

When you pay unskilled laborers more than the skilled laborers of other trades and throw on great healthcare and a generous pensions (among other benefits) you will get a broad standard of living that is high among a lot of people. And they spread it around. But companies don’t like having to pay unskilled assembly people that kind of money and provide those kind of generous benefits, and therein lies the seed of Detroits destruction. They built things in Detroit because it made sense at the time. When it quit making sense, they moved that stuff out. And this is the end result.

[@SignalCorps1]

@@TheBizziniss That sounds nice but its just not true. The worst cars every made were in the 70s and sadly they were made in Detroit by Americans. I think management started cutting quality standards which let to a takeover by the Japanese brands which were Munich more focused on quality. Its sad either way

[@SignalCorps1]

@@juanme555 Oh yes Detroit’s standard of living was higher than that of NYC at that time. Feel free to do the research. I was surprised too.

[@AdorzAaliyahSince94]

Fire is a very common theme in the destruction of a lot of these buildings...

[@enterthevoidIi]

A dying city...

[@MrMentalia]

enter.the.void.II its already dead

[@TheAce232008]

Looks like Aleppo

[@felipecardoza9967]

Imagine wanting to film a post apocalyptic movie and not having to spend one cent on set dressing.

[@chaosdemonwolf1]

I think most of those houses were torched due to the foreclosure issue a few years ago and the home owners might've burned em for the insurance or maybe even the last great act of defiance to the banks. Who knows for sure. either ways it's not only sad, but it's also disgusting how anything like that could happen over there in the states and it's not just Detroit, it's the entire bloody state

[@leehopwood869]

The whole country would look like this if all the anglos left. Blacks need to wise up and start moving off the Federal Plantation and fend for themselves!

[@jrmason]

This is so sad and astounding to watch. All the hard work and pride people put into their houses a and to see them in this condition now. I just shake my head. Nice job on the video but it's hard to watch this decay. -Jon

[@koiledlogic9336]

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[@lewisner]

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[@darrin115]

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[@redpanda5566]

Great video👍 I like the music!

[@ZJQ17]

This is what sending jobs overseas and union busting does to a city, thank you corporate america!!

[@spacebug31]

Zack Quiroz this is what blacks do

[@kataminedj]

spacebug30 black people were the ones who were already living there you racist idiot

[@jeffwessel496]

Don’t blame corporations. You voted with your wallet when you started shopping at Walmart

[@alvinarner6790]

Zack, this started with the 1967 riot (see the series that the combined Detroit News/Free Press did in 2017 on the 50th anniversary to get an idea of the scope of the damage done). The message was clear "Whitey get out" and the whites left and the middle class blacks followed in the 1970s. Jobs weren't being sent overseas in the 1960s or even the 1970s and union busting did not occur in Detroit then or even now. A huge number of old auto jobs got automated out of existence. Ford was the first to require a high school diploma or GED for new hires in 1972, but GM and Chrysler and the suppliers soon followed and a lot of people now could not qualify for those entry level union jobs that their parents and even grandparents used to make it into the middle class. I grew up in the suburbs, but my mom grew up in Detroit in a house my grandparents bought in the 1930s after they married. I remember the yearly Devil's Night fires, the crack epidemic and Detroit being the murder capitol of the US and arguably the world for several years. The laundry list of problems gets encyclopedic in length, but drugs, crime, poor government, a horrifically bad public education system set the stage for complete collapse.

[@bruceburns1672]

Once one of the most modern and wealthy cities in the world .

[@marknc9616]

These kinds of scenes also happen in prosperous cities. One happened in Raleigh, NC where the homeowners of an existing neighborhood were bought out. The homes sat in decay until a shopping center and a health complex were built in their place. I have also seen this with homes that were designated as being in a flood area. The government bought out the homes. The area later became a park. I have seen this with homes that were in an area that experienced soil contamination. This was due to water runoff from an abandoned battery factory that was upstream. I believe their homes were bought out as part of a legal settlement and/or a government directive.

[@TheBizziniss]

Dude, huge swathes of Detroit look like this and it just keeps coming. This video, which is good, does not do the extent of it any Justice.

[@Starphot]

This reminds me of the old neighborhoods I lived in since from the 1950's. Either the houses or apartments razed for something else or you do not want to live there. Pride in these neighborhoods I lived in at the time when you knew your neighbors. The original people die off of old age as their kids went mobile. Detroit auto industry went elsewhere helped this decline making Detroit the poster child of a town burning into dust. Nature taking over.

[@udubidub]

looks like Chernobyl

[@lexdee523]

I just finished watching a video here on KZbin called "The Once Great City of Detroit" it just felt so good to see what a once thriving city use to look like many years ago. But now looking at this video, it's just so dead and depressing. A difference a few years makes.

[@Lee-kh6tz]

I live around here, I still think it's a beautiful city and it's making a change. At least i think, in most neighborhoods

[@ericw3229]

Then you don' t get out much.

[@ZakaryShindle1-933]

Diversity is our greatest strength 😊

[@Cupcakeprincess85]

Those houses were so cute and nice looking with a beautiful porch..... 😢

[@ATLcentury334]

Detroit has slowly been coming back. If you research real estate prices in Detroit, they are surprisingly high. The suburbs, Ferndale, Royal Oak, Huntington Woods, Pleasant Ridge are all mid six figure, to million dollar homes. Detroit is cool again. Investors have been scooping up downtown buildings and sitting on them. We moved from Ferndale to metro Atlanta 16 years ago. Our tiny rental home was worth under 100K when we left, now it’s valued at over 200K. We bought our home in metro ATL 8 years ago for 175K. We were lucky, jumping in when the market was still recovering. Our home is worth 360K now. If our house was in metro Detroit, it would be priced higher. We miss Detroit, but this is where we landed. ATL has been very good to us, but we still miss the first snowfall of winter, back in our little bungalow in Ferndale.

[@bramlintrent1145]

I've noticed the Boston-Edison housing prices are rising again, as well. For a few years, you could pick up a big house in Boston-Edison for pennies on the dollar. Now they're back to more what you'd expect based on the square footage.

[@kitty16vcat11]

Why oh why are these homes being destroyed or left dilapidated when there are so many homeless people in America???? In the UK we restore them and make them happy homes for generations to come.

[@Ken15643]

That makes too much sense. Unfortunately, in America money is for rich people. The needy get the scraps, and the working class get the tax bill.

[@alphaomega8373]

They burn and looted the whole city. Even took a chain link fence. Insane.

[@____________________________.x]

Your face when B people move in next door... O_o

[@FatheredPuma81]

Legend has it the Google street car also burned down several times while getting these images.

[@fuzzy19111]

I'm lookin for stimpaks!

[@paulj6756]

@4:43, it looks like those were still thriving homes. So sad to see that these still lovely looking homes were destroyed only a few years later.

[@Dina52328]

So many houses destroyed by fire. How sad 😔. But how and why? Was it to collect insurance? What a shame because some of those houses were once beautiful historical structures. SMH

[@feistyfeather]

So very sad, but great video you put together. Thanks for sharing

[@deejohnson5677]

i feel sorry for the bushes and trees..half burnt and left behind... :(

[@johnuhelski8613]

FANTASTIC vid , my friend . It all going to shit and never getting better. The locals love a good blaze !!

[@j1mkn0pf82]

Can Somebody tell me Why all These houses Burns out? Sry for Englisch..im from Germany. But i mean, what happened there?

[@ScorpioBornIn69]

Corporate greed, political corruption and foreign competition. Detroit was an auto industry might that went bust because of all of this.

[@KingdomWolf2351]

What an incredible video, it makes me wonder what happened to this city. :( What is this song?

[@bluecrow3534]

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[@antonspeed4940]

Thankyou! Glad you like it

[@prayerpatroller]

I guess the voters in these districts need another hundred years of democratic rule before they get the idea that something is wrong. Or maybe 1000 years. Maybe?

[@reese76man]

I fear that New Orleans will, over time, succumb to a similar fate.

[@ScorpioBornIn69]

California will now that many people are moving out and could happen to Florida if the red tide epidemic is not solved, and if Gillum is elected governor.

[@buddyanddaisy123]

The city government stood by while $20 billion worth of housing was allowed to rot away. What an indictment! The sad thing is, things could have been done to prevent this. But the auto industry is not coming back-Detroit needs to fins a new role (financial services, urban agriculture, etc.) to thrive.

[@chieftp]

the entire state of michigan isn't worth $20 billion!

[@chairmanofrussia]

I was there in 2012, one year before the 2013 pics used here. Detroit is still like a functioning city, very much alive. I was actually shocked at how alive it was. The blight was more like a "here and there" thing. If you want to see the kinds of ruins where every house is burned down and/or abandoned you have to really look for it. Honestly, Detroit's decline can be attributed to a few things, it's not limited to this but these are the main factors: the transition from a manufacturing to a service economy, suburbanization, the reliance on a single industry and only a few massive companies, outsourcing to compete with foreign competitors like toyota and honda. I see lots of people politicizing this, but honestly, this happened all across the Midwest, in both conservative and liberal areas. St. Louis used to have close to a million people, as did Cleveland. Both failed to adapt to a changing market and both now are in the 300k-400k range, both are also liberal cities. Buffalo, NY is a conservative city. It used to have close 500k people, now it only has around 250k. Other conservative cities with declining populations include those in the Appalachians like Charleston, WV and the conservative small towns. Meanwhile relatively moderate cities like Indianapolis and Columbus both adapted and are some of the only major cities growing in the Midwest. The greatest common factor here seems to be these cities relations to mining and industry and their inability to diversify their workforce. If you want to see what conservative policies do, just take a look at Kansas, falling apart at the seams. Jerry brown left my state with a $4.5 billion surplus after we incurred massive deficits under his predecessor--a republican. So honestly, these conservatives repeating what they hear on Fox--rather than looking into the history of the city themselves--aren't to be taken seriously. What I'm seeing is a general lack of research, rather than a coherent argument. I know they're going to find some excuse to stick to their talking points given to them, but all I've done here is give statistics, numbers and facts. If you really want to see the effects of republican rule though just listen to this starting at 0:27 seconds and ending at 9:00 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnLEapqufdqrnqs The link is a little old, but still relevant to today. Every time you catch a republican lacking that sense of self-irony, send them this.

[@georgesotiroff5080]

Dear chairmanorussia, Just a little additional note about Buffalo, N.Y. I believe that with the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway the Erie Canal linking Buffalo with the Hudson River lost its commercial importance. The Welland canal, linking Lake Ontario with Lake Erie bypassed the city of Buffalo. Today the Erie Canal is used for pleasure craft. Passenger air travel also bypassed Buffalo. Buffalo ceased to be a huge rail terminus and the gateway to the west. In 1950 Buffalo had a population of 580k+. Today it has a population of 261k+ although its suburbs have mushroomed. I seriously doubt that Buffalo’s decline in population can be attributed to anything other than technological advances. Nearby Rochester has suffered from Eastman Kodak’s failure to foresee the advent of digital photography. One cannot blame drugs or Blacks or Democrats or Muslims for these changes.

[@drw1926]

@chairmanofrussia Jerry Brown was governor of Kansas? 🤔 You sure about that? And this is most definitely not a "here and there" issue in Detroit neighborhoods (former Detroiter speaking). You're another delusional lefty if you can't understand how people like Coleman Young were instrumental in running Detroit into the ground. Yes Michigan had/has an economy based on manufacturing so some decline was unavoidable to a certain degree. But incompetence, corruption, and greed played the biggest roles. Kwame Kilpatrick sound familiar? Get a clue.

[@davenorman1073]

Still smoking a lot of crack eh?

[@ericw3229]

You' re delusional I was born and raised in Detroit the liberal caused blight is real as well as the out of control crime. To date in Detroit 66 children have been shot a number fatally. The Freeways are shooting galleries and mass shootings are becoming as common as the Sunrise. Liberalism ruins everything it touches

[@edmund184]

Great music. What is it?

[@wallytron2563]

makes me cry