Shrinking Detriot Returning to Farmland

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 white flight to the suburbs. And despite scores of attempts by government and civic leaders to set the city straight, the automobile capitol 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 black — 83 percent — and mostly working class, with 30 percent of the population living below the poverty line according to the US.

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