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DETROIT (WWJ) – Employees of five downtown-based companies are being given financial incentives to live where they work.

DTE Energy’s Paul Hillegonds says the trend is already there, with a number of young professionals and creative types hanging their hat in downtown Detroit lofts and apartments.

Now, the plan is to create greater density in surrounding neighborhoods, but not just for the younger set.

“We have a number of probably empty-nesters, but also a number of retirements ahead with younger people who will be coming to work in Detroit at DTE headquarters,”  Hillegonds told WWJ Newsradio 950′s Ron Dewey.

“And I think we’re going to see growing interest in living in Detroit,” he said.

Blue cross Blue Shield President CEO Dan Leopp thinks the program will work.

“Our first application came in via email at 10 a.m., and we’ve already gotten about a half-a-dozen phone calls. So, I think clearly I believe the demand is there,” Leopp said.

Blue Cross is offering incentives to their employees to buy or rent downtown and surrounding neighborhoods. It’s a seed program to attract more development and more people to the city.

In the five-year, $4 million “Live Downtown” program, first-time home buyers will get a $20,000 forgivable loan. Renters will get a $2,500 first year allowance, and $1,000 the following year. Employees who already own a home in the city will be given up to a $5,000 grant for exterior improvements.

“Everything is market, and if you’ve got bodies and you’ve got volume, it’s gonna attract business, it’s gonna attract retail. You’ve gotta have that density and that’s what we’re trying to do,” Loepp said.

Other companies taking part are  Compuware, Quicken Loans and Strategic Staffing Solutions.

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  • Former Detroiter

    If you move into Detroit, be sure you are well armed. I’m just sayin’.

  • lukuj

    It is truly pathetic when people have to be bribed to move to Detroit, but then that is what happens when citizens insist on electing Democrats who have shown them over and over they don’t know how to keep the city safe, economically strong. or how to correct any of the problems.

  • jakartaman

    No – they could not pay me to live there!

  • cuthean

    Perhaps we could buy each of them a hut in africa, reclaim the city and make it viable?

  • James Hortsten

    Should Fortune 500 CEOs use the word, “gonna”?

  • teddy salad

    we have news stories like this and democrats have the nerve to say there should be tax increases (so they can continue to spend this way). time for a right wing revolution.

  • goodwood

    i would but i would be a second time home owner. oh well.

  • regulas

    Right and also like any other city I have heard of (ridiculous housing prices) after the incentives are gone so will be the people.

  • wjr

    This will work until several people are killed by the thugs and gangsters that haunt Detroit streets. How many dead will depend upon how well the media is silenced. The best solution is to line up big blade Cats hub to hub, lower the blades and push until the place is dumped into the Detroit River.

    Thank you Coleman Young.

  • Fact

    This is the second dumbest thing ever done besides electing Obama.

  • regulas

    Exactly, you have to eb a total fool or tool to vote for a Marxist, I mean Democrat.

  • Jason Yilson

    The article’s author spelled the CEO’s name incorrectly. It is Dan Loepp not Dan Dan Leopp. Fix it now out of respect for this brilliant businessman.

  • Hayward Brown

    The subsidy money would come in handy for stocking up on guns and ammo.

  • http://thecryptojournalist.wordpress.com The Cryptojournalist

    It’s shameful to see everyone assume this project will devolve into a shooting gallery.

    http://rhymeandreasonable.com

    Hopefully these residents will take on a sense of ownership in the community. That’s one way this could work.

  • Fact

    You do have a point

  • ihatelbj

    The Great Liberal Experiment Part II (You know, because it worked so well the first time)

    These plagues need to tossed out of the country once and for all so that the rest of us might be free from their economic and cultural tyranny.

  • Now a Floridian

    I grew up on a city that bordered Detroit. My dog ran off in early 2003 and while looking for her I accidentally turned down the wrong street, I had crossed into Detroit. The hollering of “white (female dog) you better not even think your coming down this street” just about sums up Detroit for me. What a shame.

  • Fact

    oh Detroit only came in second to sait lewis to murder. Oh yea where do I sign up. NOT

  • txdollarbill

    Not sure what the crime rate is; viable shopping etc
    Years ago I visited my folks and we went downtown to eat dinner.
    Wasn’t all that safe back than.
    Don’t be suprised if the trend cathches on.
    They rolled up the carpets in my town 10 years ago and now its the place to live

  • NWOsucks

    There ain’t enough cash in the universe to make me live in that Third-World hell hole of city….You can thank the politicians for destroying that city (& many more to come) with selling our country out to The NAFTA Treaty, Agenda 21, North American Union & eventually UTOPIA with The New World Order under One World Government. Gonna be great…. The once great USA is being flushed down the toilet and the slaves & serfs better wake up …..

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  • Fact

    Detroit only came in second to Saint Lewis in capitol murders.Where do I sign up. NOT. just in case the spelling police are out. anyway to them FU

  • Detroiter in Baltimore

    This sort of strategy was very effective in reviving downtown Baltimore, although it was driven more by the city and several public-private partnerships than by specific private companies. Individuals were offered huge incentives to buy and live in houses that were downtown. For example, you could buy a house for $1 if you committed to improving it and promised to live there for 10 years. Tax liens were forgiven, and there are a number of tax incentives for buying downtown. There are a number of public-private partnerships centered around neighborhoods that would buy and renovate properties and then sell to homeowners based around these sorts of incentives. Businesses were then given strong incentives to locate themselves downtown, the theory being that that, coupled with cheap downtown living for their workers would revive the area. Many in Baltimore would contend that that strategy was very successful.

  • Chris

    Why would anyone who would wish to raise a family move to this mess? Are they offering tuition to private schools for the kids? I certianly wouldn’t expose my kids to this Urban Jungle. Good Luck on wasting your money. At least it’s only shareholder money and not my tax dollars. Or is it?

  • Frank Gibbons

    Fact, you’re getting closer. Please try again. I know you can do it!

  • zee

    Is the deal just for living in Detroit, or will I be additionally required to make some noise for Detroit?

  • The Mendacity of Dope

    Good grief, what an absolute waste of money. Those incentives should be close to $100K/ year, in addition to a salary. Once you factor in a high-end security system, an arsenal of weapons, self-defense training, insuring every single possession one own’s, private school for your kids… actually, anyone who brings a family to downtown Detroit should be charged with child abuse.

  • ihatelbj

    Check the crime rate.

  • JustAGuy

    There you go again cutbean. You are a 1 trick pony. All you have is overt racism.

  • Gunny G

    More money for the hood rats to steal. Little Africa, er, Detroit, is long gone. Nothing more than a Third World shatehole now.

  • Ghetto Blaster

    Probably would work if everyone was issued concealed carry.

  • joe alexich

    money cant buy it,police cant stop it.FEAR!

  • Lou Voren

    No cash incentive is worth jeopardizing my safety in downtown Detroit.

  • Gunny G

    DEMOCRATS + BLACKS = Detriot, DC, New Orleans, Trenton, Filthadelphia, NYC, PG County, Baltimore, etc, etc.

  • Lester

    Reminds me of a good news/ bad news joke about a delegate to the 1980 GOP convention in Detroit. The good news: I found a room only two blocks from Cobo Hall. The bad news: nobody’s ever made it !

  • gman

    More dim/lib brainstorms backed by the impeccable credit of the US Regime.

  • Mike V

    I would do it.

  • Kenneth

    Hey, I have a wonderful idea! How about bringing in manufacturing in the area once again? Now, a manufacturing job would bring in many americans and the thugs would be outnumbered.

  • regulas

    But but, I saw a TV advertisement on Fiat, I mean Chrysler showing the 200 driving in downtown Detroit. Looked like a pleasant peaceful place to live. I always believe what the CNN/MSNBC tell me too. “sarcasm intended”

  • cuthean

    I don’t pretend to go against statistics, instinct, and observation.

    blacks would turn into into a dystopic slum within 10 years.

  • heikki lunnta

    Is this a joke??..how bout invest the money in tearing down abandoned buildings…you fools.

  • jadams76

    I think you mean “youths” who “flash mob” to attack people, clean out store shelves and cause parks in Chicago to get so hot they are closed by the police.

  • Jack_Stone

  • bill anderson

    Mexicans are the other 19% wonder what crime statistics are…you racist.

  • Leonard Webber

    Lots of truth in cuthean’s comments. What Detriot needs is to give tax breaks to white merchants/buisnesspeople and re-establish civilization in the metro area.
    The well known deffinition of insanity applies to the voting habits of blacks/union members/ignorant beer swilling assembly line losers to repeatedely vote “Democrat.”
    You wanna’ know what killed Detroit? Devaluation of the black culture; the UAW’s greed; and an auto industry that was outbeat by foriegn auto building skills.
    “White Flight” is nothing new. What is old is the failure as to why this happens throughout every Ghetto City in the country. The Liberals in those cities — who run the show, will NEVER acknowledge what I have just said.
    Swim in your on spit, Detriot, you brought it upon yourselves ! No pitty here.

  • tucholka

    Face it… Detroit is a Post industrial city. It has died. Lets get the troops in from Afghanistan and working to tear down houses. Unfortunately corruption and the banks don’t care… and thats what destroyed this once great city.

  • jadams76

    Is there also a stipend to buy bars for all the windows?…. not just the ones at street level.

  • Mikey

    I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure…

  • barbaracorcoran

    Things work in cycles. The pendulum is swing back to how thins used to be as commuting given the rising fuel prices will become prohibitive. There’s a word for this type of thing Gentrification, just read up on what is happening in Harlem, the Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brooklyn Heights of NYC.

    Buy Low/Sell High is the path to make millions in Real Estate.

    Your Rich Hipster kids in Rochester Hills will be BEGGING for you to give them big bucks in the coming years to live there.

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  • Bill

    Will they also pay for the funeral expenses of the employees who move there?

  • Kenny Rogers

    Thanks Jack. This is the real reason they want these cities.

    UN Agenda 21 worldwide program for “sustainable development’ purports to do is to herd the global population into overcrowded, impoverished, highly-surveilled mega-cities, that will effectively turn out to be prison cities

  • ClosenoughttoDetorittoknow

    MSM ignores reality and hypes a bozo idea that not one person will accept. They will never repor in six months or a year, the total failure of people to live in a disgusting, third world corrupt place in the US, created by Democrats and corrupion. Let them start a weekly or monthly status report of how many people will live in Detroit for freee. Certainly, no one will children.

  • Jennifer in Michigan

    Detroit Medical Center and Henry Ford Hospital is also participating in this program. What they don’t tell you is that the money is considered supplemental income, and is subject to a 34% tax rate. So if you take that $2,500 towards your rent (which, btw, is paid directly to your landlord and is not given to you as cash money), expect an $850 tax bill come January. ‘Free money’ my butt.

  • ihatelbj

    You’d be as safe in a prison.

  • gcblues

    because welfare has not caused enough destruction. idiots.

  • Kenny Rogers

    This is the Soviet/Chinese model, of communal prison cities, now going worldwide. It’s also the model that was inaugurated by the European colonial powers, in their slave plantations. They do not want independent individuals/families going for self-sustenance in the country, or in a tribe, or in an independent community.

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  • J Ruben Kincaid

    Nobody wants to live in a punchline.

  • Wild Bill

    I lived off Grand Circus Park in the 70s while attending law school. My daughter and I have visited a couple of times lately and she is considering living downtown. It is a heck of a lot better place now than when I lived there. You would have to be careful, but if you don’t stay out slinging crystal in neighborhoods you don’t belong you have a pretty good chance of not having any trouble.

  • Wild Bill

    People are bribed by the federal government to buy a house. It’s called the mortgage interest deduction. It works out in the best interest of everyone as an artificial stimulant to the economy. Shall I go on? There are hundreds of examples. This is a good idea. Downtown is much better than when I lived there in the 70s.

  • JustAGuy

    Democrats are the ruination.

    Black conservatives do well for society and their families. Your racist diatribes are simplistic and lack analysis. cuthean, everywhere I see your posts, they are laced with racism and that’s all you have to say about anything. Racism.

  • Wild Bill

    Only one of those is fact.

  • Wild Bill

    You are confusing ignorant people with facts.

  • James

    This article was filled with information and that is all you find to note. That is pedantic.

  • Not Myprez

    Sundown on the Union – Made in the USA – Sure was a good idea – “Til greed got in the way……. = Detroit

  • Kenny Rogers

    Everyone is to be corralled into mega-cities, put into THEIR debt system as human resources, and then submitted to mandatory eugenics: sterilization, forced abortions, passive euthanasia. The UN’s goal for the next decades is to reduce the global population to a level between 500M to 1B.

  • hound

    Dumb as a stone is Fact. Pitiful example of the results of a white American education.

  • Wild Bill

    Thanks for injecting some real information, something the professional reporters should try. For students and interns living around there they probably would not be subject to any or little of it taxed, however.

  • Not Myprez

    “IF YOU VOTED FOR OBAMA IN 2008 TO PROVE YOU’RE NOT A RACIST, YOU WILL HAVE TO VOTE FOR SOMEONE ELSE IN 2012 TO PROVE YOU’RE NOT AN IDIOT”

  • Not Mypresident

    and they’ll tell you to vote obama – again – however ‘IF YOU VOTED FOR OBAMA IN 2008 TO PROVE YOU’RE NOT A RACIST, YOU MUST VOTE FOR SOMEONE ELSE IN 2012 TO PROVE YOU’RE NOT AN IDIOT.”

  • dave

    That would be my sine qua non.

  • man_bear_ping

    No doubt funded by a Federal Grant of some kind.

    So why exactly are the rest of us paying for someone to buy property in a slum city?

    Hay, if you want to “take it back” — go for it. You could probably buy an entire floor of a building for fifteen bucks, maybe even the building itself.

  • Leonard Webber

    What ever happened to the idea of tearing down buildings and growing gardens in their footprint. Now, that was a rea “George Magovern/Hubert Humphrie socialist idea.
    OH, well. They were “White Cracker” liberals. Not good for Detroit !

  • dave

    I don’t think I would want my daughter living in a place where there is “a pretty good chance of staying alive.” Good luck to yuir daughter. Hope you don’t regret her choice, My guess is she will choose to live elsewhere.

  • Louie

    ‘The Green Zone” …hey it worked in Baghdad

  • backtoafrica

    Anyplace blacks live for any amount of time takes on the appearance of an area stripped by locusts after having been leveled by multiple atomic bombs.

  • http://swamphermit.wordpress.com/ Karmi

    Downtown Chicago is better…

  • Leonard Webber

    Look to the re-vitilazation of downtown Baltimore. What a success. I used to drive through there on business often, and it seemed that most of the time, they were demolishing (imploding) high rise public housing. (Ghettos)
    Not much later, Clinton– forced by a republican congress called for welfare reform.
    The results are obvious. . . and they are good.

  • Rick Simm

    What would you manufacturer? Guns and ammo?

  • cuthean

    I’m as racist as iq scores, crime statistics, la raza, affirmative action(discrimination against whites) etc etc etc etc

  • ihatelbj

    Why not just feed her to the lions?

  • cuthean
  • RS

    “Come for the free money, stay for the home delivery of cheap recreational drugs.”

    Detroit needs to call the trademark office, could be a winner for marketing the city.

  • ihatelbj
  • Douglas Joslin

    Time to put that CCL to good use!

  • grimmcreeper

    Detroit’s answer to cash for clunkers.

  • Truth

    @dave that is some good wine

  • chris

    i lived downtown for 1 year before moving out of the country for another job opportunity. I’m a 30′sish white guy, single..I had a great time living dowtown. Downtown Detroit boasts a lower crime rate than many other downtown areas in the US. It’s the outerlying neighborhoods that are a problem (i.e. the eastside)
    It also lacks the pretentiousness of other cities and has affordable rent. If youi want a city experience, even just for a year or two, give it a go. (I was able to go to 20 tiger games that year, which was a 5 minute walk away).

  • Sam Smirks

    Who in their right mind would live in a ghetto like Detroit? Clearly only a thug or a violent union terrorist… but no one of taste or distinction would be caught dead living in that toilet (or buying anything from it.)

  • BigJim

    Detroit is the result of coddling negroes and paying them to breed and sit on their a$$es. the problem is nationwide just more concentrated in Detoilet. if Detoilet wasn’t full of negroes you wouldn’t have to pay decent people to live there. only the naive and desperate will take advantage of this “program” and most of them will leave once they get a full dose of monkeyshines.

  • The Austrian

    Wild Bill you have your economics half right, the mortgage interest deduction is good for some people, not everyone. You are forgetting that because that money is spent on single family housing it isn’t spent somewhere else. That’s the other half of the equation.

  • Bill Wooley

    Eat at Joes

  • Roger Ball

    Whatever their race is, you can bet they are all Obama supporters. Wonder what the crime statistics are?

  • CornCob Pipe

    Why don’t they save money by renaming the city “East Germany” and shoot anyone that tries to leave?

  • NWcowboy

    Jesse Jackson said it best when he said, “There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.” …. Of course, if a white person had said something like that, he would instantly be labeled a racist by those Lefties who have no idea what reality is.

  • Kenneth

    Ha! That always an option, or maybe Detroit could be completely leveled and plowed up for one heck of a vegetable garden for profit.

  • IGetItAlready

    Maybe it’s just me but I believe a better incentive to live in Detroit than cash might be to drastically reduce the odds of my family being mugged, raped or killed in Detroit.

  • RobbieK

    Uhm, let me finalize the spelling of “St. Louis” for both of you.

  • Caradoc

    Neighborhoods “you don’t belong in”. Hmmm…. are we talkingabout neighborhoods white people shouldn’t be in? Theat would be OK> Or are we talking about places blacks shouldn’t go? That would be racist.

  • Blue Steel

    LOL! That’s from Alien 2, if I remember correctly.

  • Philip Vincent

    HEY THIS IS SO DISTASTEFUL and UNFAIR !!!!! GUNNY G should be ashamed of himself for telling the truth. If only Philly and Baltimore public schools were as good as Detroit, they are not even in the toilet as that would be an improvement.

  • Philip Vincent

    The last I heard about Detroit was that they were going to plow it under and create thousands of acres of farmland…….Now that’s and effort I think Americans can get behind,

  • LiveFree

    Sure, live in a city where people disrespect one another like disposable pieces of trash not worthy of the smallest courtesy. High taxes, oppressive regulations, corrupt politicians and population competing for crime city of the year award. Why not move to downtown Detroit? That would mean moving away from my state that is running a budget surplus, a place where freedom is celebrated, a city where taxes are low and business is encouraged. A place where people regularly leave the car windows open when running into a store. A place where ladies leave their purse on the table when visiting a buffet. Where children sell lemonade on street corners and the community celebrates Independence Day with parades, picnics and patriotic displays. Hmmm, move to Detroit?

  • Hank Warren

    Giving away cash to white people to move into the slums, yet another violation of our rights. Add it to the list of gov’t violations of our rights:
    They violate the 1st Amendment by placing protesters in cages, banning books like “America Deceived II” and censoring the internet.
    They violate the 2nd Amendment by confiscating guns.
    They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by molesting airline passengers.
    They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars for foreign countries.
    Impeach Obama, vote for Ron Paul.
    (Last link of Banned Book):
    http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000190526

  • KENYAN STEALS WHITE HOUSE…

  • AtlasObjectivist

    Unions and Democrats, Detroit is done, stick a fork in it.

  • Julie

    So embarrassing. It’s like paying someone to be your friend!

  • Blue Steel will clean Detroit

    The only way to revitalize Detroit is to get a White mayor that isn’t a Democrat, knows how to get along with the manufacturing sector, deletes the City tax entirely and gives big business a 5 year tax holiday on land or buildings. Another way to revitalize Michigan overall is for the majority of Michiganders to finally STOP voting for Democrats!!!

  • Bob Olson

    You are not even half right Wild Bill. You have fallen in the trap of thinking the government is doing you a favor, or “Giving you something” if it does not take your money for a housing payment interest tax. How did it happen that we tax payers think that our income is what we earn less what the government decides it wants? It would be better if they used the money for the benefit of all Americans. If they built roads or fire stations , etc. I would be fine with it. But the government just throws it away. They use our money to buy votes. They use our money to pay off their friends. They use our money against us. And we sit here and thank them for every dime they do not steal from us. They are now borrowing 40 cents of every dollar they spend an are going to pass the bill to my kids and grand kids. If you are not fed up Wild Bill you are not paying attention.

  • Cogito

    Got to do something to re-build Detroit after the Democrats have destroyed it. Now California is economic trash, and Obama is bring it to all Americans.

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    [...] CBS DETROIT - Companies paying incentives and offering grants to encourage employees to live in downtown Detroit. Oh goodie, goodie! Can I have a grant to cover the costs of my weapons and body armor or will RoboCop be my constant companion? Aiding the intent of Agenda 21? Alex Jones please pick up the white courtesy telephone. Alex Jones? Will any concerned citizen please pick up the white courtesy phone? Hello? [...]

  • texray

    finally, thugs r relieved that a new revenue stream is coming…

  • Is money all that matters?

    Block busters

    That is an old school term for what the enablers did.

    Purchase one property in a nice working class neighborhood.
    Rent it to “diversity”.
    Neighbor will sell house at a discount.
    Purchase discounted house and rent to “diversity”.
    Purchase neighborhood houses at steep discount and move in more “diversity.”
    Rent houses, get government funds, make money.

    Unfortunately bussing, crazy judges, crazy legislation, and high birth rates killed the cities. America is following the same path.
    Demographics are destiny.

  • Xdetroiter

    Yea, let’s all move into downtown where you risk getting shot, or robbed, or raped, or mugged and to top it all off we get to pay city income tax on top of state income tax on top of federal income tax. Just sounds like heaven to me…I’m just sayin’ too

  • Mark Matis

    Looks like at least the mortuaries will be doing a booming business in Detroit. Obamas runnin’ wild, and people are dumb enough to move there? Oh well, at least that will clean out the gene pool a bit. Although they probably WILL get to vote from their graves, After all, that IS the Chicago way.

    The stench is overwhelming.

  • rlroll2

    The problem is, when the thugs steal the money you got for moving, they may also shoot you. Net loss, no?

  • vh,

    100%

  • Oldnavy

    The standard deduction is a far better deal for most people who buy modest homes.

  • tm

    This idea is absurd. First, these pseudo non profit companies are getting that money from somewhere to bribe employees to move to the city. If Blue Cross is paying people extra for this, that means they’re insurance rates are that much higher, or they’re cutting services somewhere else (i.e., claims payments). There is no such thing as a free lunch. When will people understand this? A health system, like Henry Ford Health System, that participates in this program must be getting that money from somewhere. It’s patients? What tradeoffs are being made to pay employees for living in a certain location? Th

  • tm

    I meant “their” rates.

  • elmer j fudd

    ya know what? if ya moved there you could pretend that you are really in the old scicence fiction movie – the one with Charlton Heston – The movie- OMEGA MAN!!!

  • BigBoa

    Well!

    No WONDER the mighty Boa has a DTE bill going through the roof…..

    Incredible…..

  • BigJim

    typical negro response. also totally avoids the truth in what i said. no wonder your people struggle so.

  • John D

    Go through poor section of Detroit or any major city. The bars on the windows are not there to keep white folks out.

  • GotToBeStupidToVoteObamma

    Give me a break. Who in their right mind would want to live in a DEAD city? Use to be nice … back in maybe the late 50′s. I know … I was there then. Now … if you are not packing, you are not safe.

    Give me those boarded up buildings, the garbage, the gang members hang’n on the corner. Sounds like Utopia to me!

  • Isitreal

    Agenda 21

  • Borats Brother

    They call it “Incentive pay”.
    I would have to call it “HAZARDOUS DUTY PAY”.

  • jadams76

    But if while I’m waiting for the hipsters to arrive I have to pick up used needles, replace the A/C unit several times and the copper pipe stripped out of my house on a regular basis am I still coming out ahead in the end?

  • elmer j fudd

    yes they will Bill- its allready paid for- a specal deal has no doubt been made with the trash collectors, the trash can goes into the truck, but does not get placed back on the street -

  • Hardcore Pawn! on TruTV

    Only if I am next to a police station.

  • Deb in Texas

    I grew up in Detroit but you wouldn’t get me back there for anything. It’s sad what the local government has made of it in the first place. You HAVE to get rid of those people and the entitlement mind-set before ANYTHING will clean up Detroit. Incentives to bring good people back in isn’t going to do it!

  • Banderman

    Want to see what 30+ years of rule by the democrats will do to a city? Visit Detroit today! You go, I don’t wanna.

  • wildbill6996

    It was my understanding that a certain FORMER MAYOR of Detroit informed people of a certain HUE that they were no longer needed or wanted and told them to STAY outside of 8MILE RD. ??????? With such an invitation as that, i find it hard too believe that they would consider returning to vibrate beautiful city that the MAYOR and his successors has turned Detroit into !!!!

  • Jason

    Did you find your dog?

  • http://rebuildingfreedom.org/2011/07/25/cbs-detroit-news-program-offers-cash-incentives-to-live-downtown/ CBS Detroit News: Program Offers Cash Incentives To Live Downtown »
  • Obama Lied

    You can give all the cash you want, but this is a city run by democrats for decades….and until democrats lose their jobs, Detroit will forever be a cesspool of corruption and poverty.

  • Obama Lied

    City run by democrats, for democrats, by democrats. Yup, this is what it looks like.

  • Shicklegruber

    Doesn’t the government pay a couple of million people on welfare to live there already?

  • Shicklegruber

    My favorite movie

  • frank

    instead of giving billions of dollars in foreign aid to people that hate us, lets give this money to our big citys.

  • Shicklegruber

    Doesn’t the government pay a couple of hundred thousand people on welfare to live there already?

  • Shicklegruber

    Can we send all our poor people there too?

  • Malik

    Move to the exciting urban prarie of Detroit.

    Fending-off the feral black gangsters only adds to this challenging and austere environment.

    Join the land rush in Detroit!

  • JustAGuy

    cuthean, I understand the point you’re attempting to make, but logically, it makes no sense.

    But I do appreciate your candor on your being such a racist. In fact, it appears you’re proud of being a racist.

  • HaHaHa

    Detroit = Mogadishu west. You can pay me to move in as you pay the negroids to move on.

  • Mr.Bill

    Paid to live in a city where you fear for your life even while you sleep. A city where there’s few places to shop . . and the places you can shop are encased in bullet-proof glass. To live in a city where you pay a city tax for poor or non-existent city services. A city where you cannot take an evening stroll in your neighborhood. To live in Detroit for a person who can afford not to do so is not an option.

  • Tickyul Horrific

    schicklgruber

  • Streaming RadioGuide

    How many of those 5 employers have unionized employee workforces?

    How about repealing the city income tax?

  • m

    All of this and more is in the UN’s Agenda 21.
    Just the tip of the iceberg folks.

  • Post Office Box

    http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/Departments/DepartmentofPublicWorks/CityServicesInformation/tabid/1664/Default.aspx

    Departments and Agencies » Department of Public Works » City Services Information

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  • jimya

    Is your life worth $20 k?

  • J Smith Jr

    BRAVO.

  • kishke

    You people are so brainwashed that you view a tax deduction as a payment made from the government to the people. It’s not, of course. Your money does not belong to the government. The fact that they refrain from confiscating a bit more of your money does not mean they are paying you.

  • Dan

    Downtown actually isn’t that bad; it’s the doughnut of imminent death around it you have to be afraid of. The city will do anything rather than have the tourist center die; I certainly wouldn’t buy a condo or anything, but the rent could be a bargain for a short walk to work.

  • Ed

    Because they hadn’t finished workout negotiations with the NFL before the lockout was lifted?

  • OhHellNo

    You could not pay me enough to live in that filthy crime ridden ghetto. No thanks, and dont think about requiring it.. because I will walk so fast your head would spin.. yes.. even in this economy.

  • Billy Bob

    If someone gave me a home in Detroit I wouldn’t take it. The chances of me surviving until retirement would be slim. Like living in Bagdad !

  • phil221

    I was in downtown Baltimore at night last summer and I was scared to death. I have lived in NYC and in 2 not so great neighborhoods (up & Coming) and have to say I felt so much more in danger in Baltimore than 20 yrs in NYC.

  • wildbill6996

    Frank: Is there something wrong with someone EARNING SOMETHING ??? You know that money the GOVERNMENT GIVES OUT was EARNED by someone before the GOVERNMENT Confiscated it from them !!!!!

  • Orn Eagle

    That’s what being goin down in downtown, yall. Whitey come to town, he be goin down, yall.

  • wagnis

    If I were in my 20s, I’d give downtown a try. I’m from the ‘burbs but I do visit Detroit often, a few times a month. I’m surprised on how many young white people I see downtown and walking down Jefferson. There are pockets of resurgence, but the city has a long way to go. Without big sponsors encouraging people to live there, it probably won’t happen on its own. Better to spend some money re-populating Detroit than giving trillions to big bankers overseas.

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  • gotham1883

    Detroit died in 1967 when over 1/4 of the town was burned down by its inhabitants. It has taken this long to realize it. Let it die a merciful death. Who knows maybe a decent place to live will rise out of its ashes.

  • Jim Wilson

    Stupid programs like this is why our country is broke

  • tasia jones

    They will pay you peanuts to be mugged and shot at 24×7.

  • max

    you got it!!!!!

  • Starry

    That video is so cool. I wish I knew how to do that. Some of you guys are so skilled in computer technology. I can barely get on the internet I am not techno wise. What a neat idea putting a video in a comment . I am impressed.

  • Colonial Ruffian

    Maybe we should have let Chief Pontiac take Fort Detroit.

  • yadayadablahblah

    Have her carry a pistol. There are some really nice 32′s and 38′s made for women.

  • gotham1883

    There are no black conservatives. 96% of blacks voted for O + or – 3%. Sounds like all blacks to me. Blacks want to live with whites because their own people drive them away, but in the end they become who they are and everything that they are trying to leave always follows them. Now they are trying to become white by living with whites. The men want white women. The black women get pregnant right away and get fat and the black men don’t want them. Unfortunately, the children the white women have always end up like the children the black women have, fatherless. O is the prime example.

  • Pat

    I was born in Detroit and lived their until I was 12. It was a great city with a lot of great neighborhoods. I lived in North Rosedale Park. In 1976, when we moved to the suburbs, the crime in our neighborhood shot up. Our house was broken into twice. My bike was stolen from me. It was an absolute nightmare.

    I live in Southern California now. I was back last year and drove from Livonia to East Detroit taking 6 mile drive. What an absolute disgrace. Most of the houses were in poor shape. Some citizens still take great pride in their homes, but most were a mess. Where is the pride? Get some respect for yourselves. Make your neighbors accountable. It’s tough with such a dysfunctional city government. It is shameful and I am embarrassed when I tell people that I am from Detroit.

    Get it together. It could be a great city again!

  • Detroitistan

    These companies obviously do not value their employees.

  • max

    why is it that when you have a dense population of black and mexican, the crime rate is astronomical?? when you have a dense population of white, the crime rate is almost not existent. i live in a rural area of Missouri where the headlines are at most, someone gets busted for pot, and murder, maybe one a year, if that, and that would be county wide, not town, and the population is 99% white. employment is about average with the the US but people dont go out, rob, pillage and plunder everything in sight. we try to help one another and not kill and take everything they have. you couldnt give me a home in Detroit and make me live there and i am retired from the military. wouldnt even consider it if you gave me a tax free $100,00 a year job with a home for free!! i an sit on my front porch at night and listen to the crickets, coyotes, night sounds, not sirens, shots being fired, people screaming.

    get Detroit a conservative white mayor, clean the police department first, then start cleaning the streets of thugs, gangs, murderers, rapists, etc…but that imposes another problem…..you are going to have to build a jail big enough to hold half the population of Detroit.

    start raising your children to honor and respect people!! it all starts at home. monkey see, monkey do…no pun intended!! it all starts with hard work, not work to see how long you can live off the government or unemployment. if you cant find a job where you are, go someplace else!!

    i was an honor to serve my country for 26 years. it taught me respect and honor for other people. it taught me to live off what i had and not take from someone to live. i wish every person after you finish high school, if you dont go to college or trade school, serve a minimum of 18 months in a branch of the military. it would cut crime to bone and promote respect, responsibility, ethics and a few other good traits. this country’s youth is atrociously disrespectful, lazy, which reflects on the parents. not enough discipline at home. you must start at an early age before the bad habits start. you can wait till they are in their teens and expect them to change. raise them to respect and discipline to honor their beliefs and become outstanding citizens.

    you will see the cities change then!!

  • frank

    Wildbill6996: This money that President Obama’s is giveing away is not earned money, its money he just prints up. You no, Obama’s stach.

  • Rick

    Actually Downtown is safe. Panhandlers maybe, but the dangerous part is driving to and from the city, That rquires Body armor and a fast car!

  • NWcowboy

    That’s reminiscent of what Jesse Jackson once said – “There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.” …. Of course, if a white person had said something like that he would immediately be labeled a racist by the NAACP, the ACLU, and the Left in general.

  • AC

    Yeah, I’ll move there for cash. But do I get a Kevlar vest and a 12-guage, too? Or does that have to be purchased with my cash?

  • Dalton

    Long gone from Michigan, now going on 25 years. Grew up 40 miles northwest of Detroit. Had a good friend who was a paramedic. On devil’s night, back in the 80′s and 90’s, the Detroit Fire Department (DFD) would pull volunteer firemen and paramedics from around the state, as well as northern Ohio and Indiana, in an attempt to keep the local residents from burning the city to the ground.
    One devils night my friend was amazed to observe a group of Detroit Fire Fighters pull up, in a dedicated loading van, to a home that the volunteers had just saved. The DFD boy’s then proceeded to empty (Rob) the home of all it’s contents. Especially TV and stereo equipment or anything of value they could find… That’s Detroit.
    Combine that with a 49% functional illiteracy rate among adults, an utterly deplorable school system, corrupt democrat pol’s, a corrupt police department and who, in there right mind, would want to live in such a place?
    Trust me, Mogadishu is more civilized in comparison.

  • awade54

    This is the only comment that matters!!!

  • erik ny

    You can always find masochistic whites to move to the worst places on earth… you’ll definitely get a few takers. See Camp of Saints.

    Since the whole world is deleveraging over the next 5-10 yrs, barring some unforeseen miracle, people who aren’t into defending themselves should definitely stick to well-patrolled areas. I’ve driven from Grosse Pointe to downtown along Jefferson and it’s nice they bulldozed collapsing houses, but it’s utterly deserted…. creepy

  • Zarcadian Leader

    Flying on Obama’s private plane.
    Obama looked at Oprah, chuckled and said, ‘You know, I could throw a
    $1,000 bill out of the window right now and make somebody very happy.
    Oprah shrugged her shoulders and replied, ‘I could throw ten $100 bills
    out of the window and make ten people very happy.
    …Michelle added, ‘That being the case, I could throw one hundred $10 bills
    out of the window and make a hundred people very happy..
    Hearing their exchange, the pilot rolled his eyes and said to his co-pilot,
    “Such big-shots back there. I could throw all three of them out of the
    window and make 256 million people very happy.’

  • Ron Zaks

    In the ghetto ii is known as “Section 8″ housing. We be comin to yur hood.

  • Makmepuke

    An EXCELLENT point!!!

  • Makemepuke

    Than what?

  • Makemepuke

    Hey, you can’t be disrespecting Detroit! Dis be the jenkem capital of the world!

  • ablecynic

    This is just a program to subsidize middle-class victims so the poor Detroit “ethnics” will have someone to rob. After all, with gas prices so high, it is too expensive to drive to the suburbs to rob someone.

  • speedy

    you have to be deranged to want to live in detroit. all elected and appointed officials from the mayor on down are crooks and liars. detroit is a dangerous and dirty city with next to no services but with a city income tax. so if you want to live in detroit, and only God knows why you would, you better get a couple of guns and learn to shoot.

  • Tom Walter

    NiIQQERS RUIN EVERYPLACE THEY SQUAT AT. WHAT ELSE IS NEW?

  • Tom

    Wonder what’s wrong with Detroit?

    Start with the reporter not knowing or checking to see if the Blue Cross executive is Mr. Leopp or Mr. Loepp!

    Detroit needs a Katrina so the Feds will spend untold billions to save a city that has given up.

  • Fries

    You would have to be insane to want to live in a place like that, even with concealed carry.

  • jksu2

    Lived on the east side by Denby High School. You will pay 5% tax on all utilities with higher rates than suburbs with city income tax 3% for living in the city itself. Auto, Homeowners, rental insurance will be redlined at 3-4 times higher. All items in stores will be double, and try to find a grocery store besides an Arab Party Store. Roads are well pot holed and cracked. Crime, felonies, assaults, rapes, murders, home invasions, petty theft, car jackings, crack houses, ladies walking the streets. Why would anyone want to live there? Perhaps a $1500 extra per month would cover it. Sorry if you don’t like this post but its the truth.

  • Liberty Jane

    The Democrats running the city already own it and they ain’t sellin’.

  • PIPE DREAM

    YOU MAY AS WELL SIGN YOUR OWN DEATH CERTIFICATE IF YOU MOVE THERE… I LEFT 20 YEARS AGO BECAUSE OF THE VIOLENCE, AND IT HASN’T GOTTEN ANY BETTER..

  • Ernaldo T

    Well, cool….sign me up!

  • Ernaldo T

    Easy, thoughtful form of layoffs, and won’t have to cover unemployment benefits…..

  • Ernaldo T

    Yup, and broken

  • Loquisha

    honestly…..where’s my money? I can’t wait to get out but I might stay if the price is right. (Just kidding, you couldn’t pay me enough to stay here)

  • JBC

    I spent a month in Detroit one night.

  • mike

    Over 70 years of liberalism took the greatest town in history, with the highest avg wages for the avg person, down to one of the lowest ever and reduced the population by over 50%. Liberalism is the culture of failure.

  • A. Gabe

    Yes, right next to obama’s half brother in kenya. . .a good idea actually. . .when you give too much, people never learn to become self-sufficient; they constantly take and take and take and never give; they will just suck off the works of other people. The govt is so wrong to give my hard-earned dollars to illegals and to those who refuse to work. Wrong!

  • mike

    Move everyone who is on welfare to Detroit, and give them a mule and gun.
    A mule to mow the lawn, and a gun so they can fit in with the local liberal population.

  • GoDiddy

    It should be more than clear that the reason for trying to populate our city with whites (yes, we all know who’s being targeted with this) is to ultimately remove the black power structure in Detroit. That simply is RACIST and must be stopped. The first step would be to investigate the leaders of these companies and see if they have ties to the Tea Party or that guy in Norway. Then put an end to this blatant effort to take away our CIVIL RIGHTS.

  • mike

    Black crime on whites is more that 28 times greater than white crime on Bklacks. yet the propaganda branch of the democratic party never says a word about it. If it was the other way around, there would be civil rights marches everyday. ..and you bet the propaganda branch of the democrate party would be airing that 24/7.

  • Larry Mason

    IT IS NOT RACISM IF IT IS TRUE

  • Sammy

    Wait a minute. I thought the guy from hardcore pawn owned Detroit.

  • Wapachaa

    I grew up in Metro Detroit and I really do not understand the reasoning behind pouring money into a failed city. Is it nostalgia? A disconnect with reality? Is it that hard to admit that Detroit’s glory days are past and move on? I recently moved back to Michigan after being away for over a decade. I feel inundated with billboards and ads about trying rebuild Detroit. We’re told to just Believe in Detroit. Really? Just believe and all your dreams will come true. Sounds too much like a fairy tale for my taste.

  • FatManFromMichigan

    Where do you put “ammunition resupply” on an expense account?

  • Liggon

    This could be a worthwhile program if it attracted a substantial number of decent whilte people. Don’t need more of the dusky hood. That’s what rotted the gut out of Detroit to begin with.

  • michael

    Same here Deb, I left in 1970, and never looked back. I would move back for 1 million dollars per year.

  • Patrick

    I wonder how many of the people commenting here have walked through the Guardian Building, relaxed in the shade at Campus Martius, stayed a night at the Book Cadillac, or bought fresh vegetables at Eastern Market? Detroit still has a lot to offer and this type of program can be successful.

    Of course you have to drive out crime, but I would not destroy this city in the process. Mayor Bing, Dan Gilbert, Mike Illitch, and others are doing their part. The rest of us can find some reason to visit the city, or at least keep their mouth shut when they don’t really know any better.

  • Roger Sunderlin

    who would want to live in a dump.i would rather drive to my work than have to worry about my family having to deal with the minions that live in that city.

  • Sickofgroidsandspics

    The Jigg is up!

    This is a way, as one person said, to bring back whitey. The only reason they want whitey is… whitey is weak prey. They prey on STUPID white females who let the darkies F them… I wish there was a tag that popped up on all white women (I have been F’d by A groid”)… the disassociation they would endure would end that… and they prey on white males too stupid to carry a gun… By the way, the black cowards usually do so in a group… unless they had a gun.

    I wish the cops would install snipers everywhere with orders to shoot all who commit a crime.

    THAT would increase the white population…

  • Crosscut

    Detroit is lost. Admit defeat. Pull back your forces. Create new lines of defense. Supply humanitarian aid at selected distribution points under armed cover. Let them bring their dead and wounded to specified collection drop offs.

  • Rockassanted

    This is another one of the hidden tax schemes. If the Blues in Mi are non-profit they must increase their income some how to pay these people to live In Det. How do they do that cost increase on the people who can least afford it. The people who are at the Dr office and in the hospital probably on Medicaid or Medicare, Governments Programs.
    Quicken and the other will increase the cost of their product or services.
    The major Cities wanted these people who are living there now when there was and over supply of money coming in from Social Security and Medicare. The spent it on program for these these people now they have moved many to out to the SUB. and gave them houses we are now paying for.
    Taxes increases are preposed with many FACES..

  • Bob

    Why go to heII before you die?

  • Chicago Nick

    Nice they’re bribing the people who can well afford to live there without the city and state funded handouts. Typical left wing yuppies move in and act like they’re doing a public service when they had to be bribed to come in there.

  • Chicago Nick

    What’s a racist to YOU is a REALIST to the rest of us.

  • Wyrdless

    @GoDiddy you probably see racism behind every bush and under every bed. If they sent checks to black people becasue they were black, you wouldn’t be calling it racist, becasue you’d be to busy lining up to get your check.

    :::YAWN::: racism is so 1990′s, this is the new millennium, you are supposed to be worried about terrorists

  • Chicago Nick

    That was a reply to THIS comment:

    bill anderson

    Mexicans are the other 19% wonder what crime statistics are…you racist.

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  • tim

    I would move downtown Detroit. It’s vibrent, safe and a lot of fun for young professionals. I hate suburban life.

  • Guess Who

    Let’s see how you like “vibrant” after you’ve been mugger a few times by feral niq qers..

  • Grape Ape

    True dat, nome sane?

  • Guess Who

    The MSM are terrible on this issue. They love protecting their pets and spreading misinformation on them.

  • Guess Who

    I call it Section Ape housing.

  • Gavrick

    There is no amount of money that could convince me to move to Thugville.

  • Lex Terry

    GoDiddy “It should be more than clear that the reason for trying to populate our city with whites (yes, we all know who’s being targeted with this) is to ultimately remove the black power structure in Detroit. That simply is RACIST and must be stopped.”
    Yes because things have been and still are going so well. LOL Race baiting BS it is time black saw through the Alsharpton JJackson racist gravy train they are on and quit being used.

  • Gavrick

    Repopulate the city with mostly whites and the problem will fix itself. No idea where the Bantus would land.

  • Grape Ape

    All you have are lies from the ARA crowd. People are racist for a good reason……niq qers!

  • Gavrick

    Well, I’d be perfectly happy living in a neighborhood consisting of 97% whites and 3% blacks, if everyone is conservative.

  • Gavrick

    You call it racism. I call it self-preservation.

  • Steve

    Please rape/rob/kill me. Yeah, 73% in this poll say no. throw in an AK47, an armored vehicle, bulletproof glass for my fortress and immunity for protecting myself and we’ll talk.

  • Tipper

    Sounds like the mortgage problem all over again. Even if people went there, they wouldn’t be able to stay.

  • Joe Smith

    How dare you, sir. To suggest that Detroit is anything but a fine city is insulting. Obviously, they are not in debt. There is no crime nor violence. The school system is one of the best in the world. /sarcasm Detroit is an example of progressive policy. So, enjoy it.

    Diddy,
    Thank you for the laughs this morning. Perhaps, if you were to tell your neighbors to change the way they think, this city would be able to move past cesspool and closer to pathetic. But, instead, you will continue to spout such drivel while your educational system fails, your crime rate continues to rise, and your politicians use your stupidity to their advantage. Judging by your statements, it seems they are right to do so.

  • Ex- NFL 20

    No possibility in this world that this ex-Detroiter will ever come back.

    The entitlement crowd sickens my stomach. A lifetime wasted on handouts from the Demoractic Plantation Owners and The Union.

    And still…….Detroit is still the victim walking around with this massive chip on their shoulders.

  • T R McKinney

    Headline from todays Detroit News……”Detroit’s murder rate rising”

    How much would it take to get anybody to move into the City of Detroit?

  • Name

    Hahahaha

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  • Quannelxlax

    Okay Mr Loepp we will get right on it

  • Sqinny

    3rd Most Dangerous City in THE WORLD, yea count me in.

  • Jim

    Overpaid union workers with wonderful benefits and that Socialist mindset.

  • John Smith

    Finally. Obama has been drawn in from his Partying to look at what he has done so he can deny his responsibility for his World.
    Well, It is too Little and way too late.

  • C O L!

    If you move into Detroit, be sure you have plenty of life insurance

  • ragnarb

    Add a job and a gun and I would feel compelled to move to this once great city.

  • Falcon

    The ONLY thing that will revitalize Detroit is for a White, non-Democrat mayor to take over, eliminate all taxes for businesses, kill the stupid city tax implemented by lazy mayor Coleman Young and issue an ultimatum that no Democrat can ever be on the ballot in any election in Wayne County, Michigan again!

  • Kenyan Obama

    I agree, Makemepuke. Chicago is also a rat hole. And you’ll be lucky your car survives the worst quality roads I’ve ever driven on in downtown Chicago.

  • Dallas also sucks!

    Think Detroit is bad? Try living in downtown Dallas, TX. You’ll be dead within 2 weeks. Robocop was filmed in Dallas!

  • SuicideBomber#42

    You will pay me to move into the Caliphate of Detroit? Allah be Praised!

  • Ben

    WHO in their right mind would even consider moving to the cesspool??????????

  • Joey Watts

    LOL, it would take a whole lot of cash for me to live downtown, thats for sure.

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  • Ben

    That sounds like the best idea I’ve heard in a long time……….good call !!!!

  • Massimo Deportado

    Did you check out the survey results?

    Seems like not everyone fall for Natural Selection.

    Here’s a nice story about Detroit:

    Excerpted from an excellent article about Detroit, titled “The City Where the Sirens Never Sleep” by M Labash.

    Its recently resigned mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, he of the Kangol hats and five-button suits, now wears jailhouse orange as he’s currently serving a four-month sentence as part of a plea agreement for perjuring himself regarding an extramarital affair with his chief of staff, which yielded soupy love-daddy text messages that would make Barry White yak in his grave.

    Those in Detroit who are neither recipients of sweetheart contracts nor Kilpatrick family members on the city payroll at inflated salaries think he got off easy. Because what led to the perjury was concealing an $8.4 million payout from city coffers to settle a whistleblower suit brought by cops who’d been fired for investigating, among other things, the murder of a stripper named Strawberry who, prior to her death, was allegedly beat up by Kilpatrick’s wife when she caught her entertaining her husband.

    In a city often known as the nation’s murder capital, with over 10,000 unsolved murders dating back to 1960, the police are in shambles through cutbacks and corruption trials. (They have a profitable sideline, though, as one of the nation’s largest gun dealers, having sold 14 tons of used weapons out-of-state.) Their response times are legendarily slow. Their crime lab is so inept that it has been closed. One Detroit man found police so unresponsive when trying to turn himself in for murder that he hopped a bus to Toledo and confessed there instead.

    Detroit schools haven’t ordered new textbooks in 19 years. Students have reported having to bring their own toilet paper. Teachers have reported bringing hammers to class for protection. Declining enrollment has forced 67 school closures since 2005 (more than a quarter of the city’s schools). The graduation rate is 24.9 percent, the lowest of any large school district in the country. Not for nothing did one frustrated activist start pelting school board members with grapes during a meeting. She probably should’ve reached for something heavier.

    An internal audit, which was 14 months late, estimates next year’s city deficit to be as high as $200 million (helped along by $335,000 embezzled from the Department of Health and Wellness Promotion). With a dwindling tax base – even the city’s three once-profitable casinos are seeing a downturn in revenues (the Greektown Casino is in bankruptcy) – the city has kicked around every money-making scheme from selling offownership rights to the tunnel it shares with neighboring Windsor, Canada, to a fast food tax. It’s perhaps unsurprising that Detroit now has the most speed traps in the nation.

    It also has one of the highest property tax rates in Michigan, yet has over 60,000 vacant dwellings (a guesstimate–nobody keeps official count), meaning real estate values are in the toilet. Over the summer, the Detroit News sent a headline around the world, about a Detroit house that was for sale for $1. But it’s not even that uncommon. As of this writing, there are at least five $1 homes for sale in Detroit.

    The city council has been such a joke that one former member demanded 17 pounds of sausages as part of her $150,000 bribe. Its prognosis for respectability hasn’t grown stronger with Monica Conyers, wife of congressman John Conyers, taking the helm. She has managed to get in a barroom brawl, threatened to shoot a mayoral staffer as well as have him beaten up, and twice called a burly and bald fellow council member “Shrek” during a public hearing. But with all the problems facing the city, the council still found time to pass a nonbinding resolution supporting the impeachment of George W. Bush.

    How bad is Detroit? It once gave the keys to the city to Saddam Hussein.

    Over the last several years, it has ranked as the most murderous city, the poorest city, the most segregated city, as the city with the highest auto-insurance rates, with the bleakest outlook for workers in their 20s and 30s, and as the place with the most heart attacks, slowest income growth, and fewest sunny days. It is a city without a single national grocery store chain. It has been deemed the most stressful metropolitan area in America. Likewise, it has ranked last in numerous studies: in new employment growth, in environmental indicators, in the rate of immunization of 2-year-olds, and, among big cities, in the number of high school or college graduates.

    Just keep voting democrat and everything will be fine!

  • Ed Cole

    Cash won’t spend in the grave. Get back to me when you can offer reincarnation. Then maybe I’d risk living in that flippin’ cesspool.

  • Shredderofmass

    So is my health insurance cost indirectly subsidizing this nonsense? If so stop it now. I already pay taxes. If you want to give to this charity feel free to give your own money.

  • John

    >>> first-time home buyers will get a $20,000 forgivable loan

    Translation: Please move in and declare bankruptcy. We won’t make you repay the loan.

  • ron

    my life is worth more then money ..

  • Darrell

    why would any white man want to move into the Ghetto? I moved out of Westland 10 years ago, it was a changing place then. Now its a crime ridden city, why? the black man has moved in, and with him, crime, murder, and all the filth that comes with him. I am not being a racist, I am just putting down the facts, when it was white there were some crime, shoplifting etc. now it has murder, rape and all the crime that comes with the American negro

  • Tammy

    Do they think that paying people to live there will solve the problem of downtown Detroit? It won’t. I recently attended a convention in the once mighty motor city, the city my father was born in and lived in until 1954. What I noticed was: No grocery stores, no place to buy fresh perishable foods in the downtown area. I guess you have to drive to the outskirts to get something other than beer and cheetos. very few places to go eat. I lived on hotdogs. Albeit very good ones from Coney and American, and also from the ballpark, you gotta have other options. Little Greektown was nice, but within a block of Greektown, you just don’t want to be walking alone, or even with one other person. The bums seem to leave you alone if you are in a group, but walking in pairs or solo, forget it. There is no Target, Walmart, Kmart, to walk to. So you can move into the fragile downtown area, but you have to continue to commute to shop, to eat,, etc. So whats the point? The city is obviously ruined, the heart rate barely registering. There is still hope for the historic city, but it will require more than just paying folks to lower their standard of living. This idea provides a feel good answer, but not a real or lasting answer to bringing Detroit back to a vibrant life.

  • AnnieDee

    Now that’s a program I’d donate to!

  • Atlangel

    Thank-you Sir. Well said. I am a 50 y.o. SBF and also a military veteran. I left Detroit in 1986 and am more thankful each day! LOL :) Your words and many of the other contributors sting, but, nevertheless, are very TRUE.

    Once again, thank-you and Amen.

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  • Say Nice Things About Detroit!

    I am very happy with the progress that is real and substantial in the City of Detroit, brought about in large measure by Wayne County C.E.O. Robert A. Ficano, along with Honorable Wayne County Commissioner Ilona Varga. Mr. Ficano and Ms. Varga are working tirelessly around the clock to ensure Detroit reclaims its rightful spot as a world class city. I would ask any naysayer here to judge for yourself: walk down Woodward Avenue (soon to have a state of the art rapid rail system!), see the bustling commerce sprouting up along M1, walk the new, safe Riverwalk any evening, and admire the progress through and through our beloved jewel of a city. Take a stroll on our D-DOT transit system (the new D-DOT Rosa Parks Transit Center in the heart of Downtown is accalimed for its beauty and cleanliness), and tour the many fine Detroit neighborhoods before you.

    Detroit and Wayne County are to be admired for their continued recovery!

  • yoda

    i grew up a poor kid in detroit, i moved to the suburbs at 21yo. now its 25 years later and my area is being infested with the ghetto “pants on the ground” fools. maybe it is a worthy investment to move back to the inner city. i bet in another 20 years Detroits surrounding suburbs will be ghetto like chicago.

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  • Brushjumper

    Detroit, as most American cities are the new reservations for minorities, poverty, crime, UNWED Mothers, school dropouts(50%), corrupt unions, abortions, drugs, gangs, gangsters, guns, and general entitlement living. They have become this way (AS WE ALL KNOW) from the liberal progressive mindset of spread the wealth. As America looks to a future concerning cities, we best totally eliminate all unions and move to a privatization of all services through bidding contracts. Then after putting all criminals in prison with the use of the National Guard can ANY city have a chance of recovery.

  • http://countenance.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/fun-with-a-body-in-motion/ Fun With a Body In Motion « Countenance Blog

    [...] Detroit:  Program Offers Cash Incentives To Live Downtown Oh boy, just what I’ve always wanted, to be bribed to live in a high rise apartment where [...]

  • jonelle

    I would rather live in the Detroit Zoo. There are less Apes there. When you have to start PAYING humans to live around blacks, you know the fruits of “Diversity” are rotten

  • idindonuffins!

    I would rather live in the Detroit Zoo. There are less Apes there. When you have to start PAYING humans to live around blacks, you know the fruits of “Diversity” are truly rotten

  • gibsmedat

    And “YOU IS” another one that can’t seem to string together a simple correct declarative sentence. bet you have a few illegitimate of your own.

  • malcom

    The city has shown itself to NOT want whites only their money. You would be insane or an idiot white liberal to want to live there. And if you do live their with all that crime don’t go crying once you are targeted because of your race. You deserve what happens to you.

  • malcom

    LMAO so true. If you are smart you wouldn’t live around ‘those people’ unless they are truely conservative.

  • malcom

    there may be a huge white women population coming to detroit with this plan

  • http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/38734 Daily scoreboard « Don Surber

    [...] From WWJ: “Employees of five downtown-based companies are being given financial incentives to live [...]

  • Joy

    Most of the comments here are so incredibly ignorant. Maybe you should consider coming out of your close minded little worlds. Of course, Detroit has the same problems as most big cities. There are a lot of wonderful things happening in the City now. Especially Downtown. It will take time and a lot of work for Detroit to be the vibrant city it once was. Keep in mind people, the state of Michigan is nothing without the City of Detroit. When you go out of town, you don’t say, “I’m from Brownstown” or “I’m from West Bloomfield” You say, “I’m from Detroit”

  • http://ethicalfutures.wordpress.com HooDatIS?

    i love downtown lets move back and take back our city
    its mess right now but the future is ours
    http://ethicalfutures.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/video-crazy-cat-fight-caught-on-cam-nyc-subway/

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  • Bill Clinton

    The best use of this money would be to incent the blacks in Detroit to move back to Africa and never return. Whites could move back to Detroit and begin the rebuilding process. The whiter the city the move livable the community is. The blacker the city, well, we have Detroit, Newark, New Orleans, etc. Need we say more? There are no 1st world black cities, states or countries. There is a reason, it’s genetic and it’s a lack of intelligence. Blacks are a different species, a sub-species.

  • http://www.whitecivilrights.com/?p=5775 White Civil Rights » Luring Whites Back to Detroit?

    [...] CBS news article reports: “Employees of five downtown-based companies are being given financial incentives to live [...]

  • http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/detroit-institutes-municipal-obamacare-will-ration-services-towards-healthy-neighborhoods/ Detroit institutes municipal ObamaCare; will ration services towards “healthy” neighborhoods | Right Wing News

    [...] No wonder the City is looking to actually pay people to live there (Program Offers Cash Incentives To Live Downtown). [...]

  • http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2011/08/27/employees-employers-explore-housing-options-on-live-downtown-tour/ Employees, Employers Explore Housing Options On ‘Live Downtown Tour’ « CBS Detroit

    [...] Related tags detroit, Downtown, downtown Detroit, incentives, Live Downtown, Tour var addthis_product = 'wpp-261'; var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true};if (typeof(addthis_share) == "undefined"){ addthis_share = {"templates":{"twitter":"{{title}} {{url}}"}};}DETROIT (WWJ) – Dozens of employees and employers will be touring downtown Detroit Saturday as part of the “Live Downtown Tour.” The event will offer housing availabilities for employees of certain Detroit businesses who are offering incentives to have their workers live closer to their offices. [...]

  • Joseph

    well atleast someone cares about people. Its nice to see that people are being offered incentives. great works.

    Regards,
    Joseph @ Free Usenet

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  • pudding African American

    It is so true that Detroit Whites are so racist I have been there to visit many times, and I find it hard to stomach the bigotry and racial hate. The whites did everthing to run African Americans away from the City even killing them with diease, and proverty, and racism. They did not figure that this tactic would cause those who invested in the rebuilding of downtown, the same ideaoligists who ran the blacks out of the city, to have to create incetives to bring white young people to detroit. God don’t like ugly, and it won’t work they are to afraid to come here, so offer your incentive to the black people who arent afraid to live here, before your city and its investments die off again. let’s face it we all know the old game you white people play in michigan. and in other cities in America.

  • pudding African American

    you get the kind of city you create if you refuse to hire the people that live in the city and create no jobs, pay people to live on welfare decade after decade, give them inferior schools. and have one set of rules for blacks and the poor, and one set of rules for the whites, and the rich what do you expect to happen. White already know what will happen that is why they created this system, so it would do just what is has done and will continue to do. and you can call my comments racist if you want to but the fact of the matter is that the truth hit to close to home that is why a hit dog will hollow. white people of this america stop trying to hide the evil that you do cause everone see it any way so just own up to the hate you create and since you love doing evil so much just enjoy it an pretend no one see you it that makes you feel better.

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