Detroit shrinking…

I saw a piece on tv recently about Detroit’s plan to demolish its abandoned properties,  creating green space within the city for parks and gardens.    I couldn’t quite believe the figure of 100,000 vacant properties used in the program, but it was apparently correct according to  this.

I wish Mayor Dave Bing good luck with his plan to “right-size” Detroit, or reconfigure the city to reflect its shrinking population.  It remains to be seen if he can resist the high-tax, anti-business  regimes of so many of his predecessors,  which drove people and businesses from the city.   The program said little about the stupidity of politicians which put a once-thriving metropolis on life-support status.   That might have led to comparisons with New York,   and other cities being led equally badly,  wouldn’t it?