Rebuilding a city, on this scale, takes a LOT of time. Maybe our lifetimes, or two. It took a lifetime to grow Detroit from a small city to a big one. But this time, the game may be much more complicated.
Although my evidence is only anecdotal, I can see with my own eyes when I'm in and around Detroit (I live about an hour west) that people are working incredibly hard to turn the city around. But the statistics may not show this at first glance, and it could take many years for all of this hard work to even register on the national radar.
If we're here looking for simple answers, the only simple answer would be to let Detroit continue declining, and forget about it and deal with the blowback, whatever it may be, for however long it may last. Every other answer is hard.
Although my evidence is only anecdotal, I can see with my own eyes when I'm in and around Detroit (I live about an hour west) that people are working incredibly hard to turn the city around. But the statistics may not show this at first glance, and it could take many years for all of this hard work to even register on the national radar.
If we're here looking for simple answers, the only simple answer would be to let Detroit continue declining, and forget about it and deal with the blowback, whatever it may be, for however long it may last. Every other answer is hard.