US-POPULATION-DETROIT DECAY

11 maja 2013, | Kategorie: | Brak komentarzy

SHRINKING DETROIT HAS 12,000 ABANDONED HOMES
Houses along Detroit streets have become derelict abandoned buildings 15 June, 2005, in what was once a thriving middle class area. There are more than 12,000 abandoned homes in the Detroit area, a byproduct of decades of layoffs at the city’s auto plants and people leaving for the suburbs. And despite scores of attempts by government and civic leaders to set the city straight, the automobile capital of the world seems trapped in a vicious cycle of urban decay. Detroit has lost more than half its population since its heyday in the 1950’s. The people who remain are mostly African-American, 83 percent, and mostly working class, with 30 percent of the population living below the poverty line according to the US Census Bureau. AFP PHOTO/JEFF HAYNES



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