1/5th Of Detroit To Be Bulldozed (Video)

via Wealthy Debates by Barbara Speed

Detroit is hoping to rid itself of its unique collection of dilapidated buildings and elegantly rubbish-strewn abandoned lots, and all within the next five years.

In May, a group ominously titled the “Detroit Blight Removal Task Force” released a report claiming that around 22 per cent of the city’s properties were “blighted” – vacant, damaged or considered dangerous. They also found that, of the 84,000 properties owned by public entities, just over 5,000 were occupied by squatters, making the city of Detroit, the report’s authors noted, “a very large and inadvertent landlord”.

The task force’s proposed solution is to demolish it all over the next five years and start again. Unfortunately, the plan doesn’t extend to rebuilding the properties – it’ll be down to private companies and developers to buy up the land and rebuild.

Not everyday you hear about a major metropolitan area getting bulldozed.  Detroit is the brain child of corruption and greed and lies.   It is the center of structural decay that is a metaphor for the current state of this country, neigh, the world even.  A decaying, rotting pile of injustice and no reason, no compassion.