Detroit, Michigan | What Happened Here?

Detroit, Michigan is looking horrific! This is easily one of the absolute most run down cities in America today. Crime is soaringly high, and poverty is some of the worst in the country. Would you live here? Filmed back in April. Let's take a drive and check out some of the hardest hit areas!

[jennbed]

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...

[sergei]

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,

[theboone]

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

[cynthiajones]

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. 😢😠

[laughingcrowe]

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.

[kenszahamilton]

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 ❤

[fernandoloureiro]

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.

[bootszarawalken]

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

[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.

[colleenwalsh]

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.

[law]

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

[TheMotorman]

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.

[hildeschmid]

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.😢

[VeraJLocke]

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

[siphomogale]

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

[kp]

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.

[susanboatman]

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.

[martyanderson]

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

[doubled]

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.

[againstthegrain]

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