... Detroit is ready for a Post Covid Future ?

 

Renaissance City.Motown.Motor City.Arsenal of Democracy Detroit is ready for a Post Covid.Future

 if you want to build it on an empty lot  

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 The pictures tell a sad story but this is even sadder: Detroit charged its remaining citizens too much for their  aging houses and cracked streets. They let the pensioner or that vet only drawing social security pay to the tune of 600 million dollars to make up for the short fall. The schools closed anyway. People of course walked away from their properties. Or Died in a cheaper place like the tiny southern town they originated from... So much so the city population was based on money from those no longer working :

    Retirees can tell you this 5 minute story                       

    Listen to the Link here:

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/16/797098432/investigation-reveals-detroit-overcharged-homeowners-on-property-tax-after-reces

The auction of properties improved. Rehabbed and ready houses hit the list. Foreclosures held by the city hit another list. Detroit Land Bank  lists still needs improvement however. There are not enough people interested in buying a side lot to their property just to pay taxes on a Bigger Yard. 

 The links are here- Look for yourselves  at the colored links. Just know that you need 25K in a Chase account just to start bidding.  Unfortunately the houses in most of these auctions  whether Rehabbed and Ready/ Foreclosure  or As is Lots/Derelict houses are in neighborhoods that are  much more populated by housing valued  well below your purchase. The following snapshot  of a Foreclosure.com list  tells me that 90K for a house is too much to pay in a residential neighborhood that does not have many mom and pops and no National chains nearby on a shopping avenue.

Tiny houses Anyone ? Yes for those socialized homeless . Detroit has done this already 

Video Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxWpMrbg5lk

When it is  post Covid by the mid 2020s  Lets go Modern and Green - a proposal

Build Container Houses on those lots. I want to build a 3 dimensional primary colors container  building that acts like an afterschool learning lab so STEM is almost 24-7 As a kid who grew up during the space age this anti science thing has got to die !!! . People should know that messenger RNA does not send messages back to the FEDS but  instead tells your immune system how to be the rebels to the Empire. 

Image source: By Gabi Slizewska

https://www.expii.com/t/messenger-rna-mrna-overview-role-in-translation-10218

Loosen up the provision that states only lots of 3000 square feet or more can contain temporary machinery and sheds to house materials used to re build. It makes sense to be able to store and watch your materials on your lot just like the big developers do. Authorize the Demolition czar to make sure no one overstays their shed welcome. The tools disappear form the property  once its habitable by either a business or a household.  RE-zone for more mixed use and  the artists will come here , the creative, the next Genius who promotes  middle class living standards because they could find the  energy in Detroit.to make something so cool we have a new nickname.

Covid IS SO DREARY.   Can't brighten up the landscape by creating more than just murals?? If it sounds like impatience it is because the possibilities depend on a change in how gentrification etc. is viewed. We are all in this together post COVID ,

We should not look at each other as   Us and Them -but survivors who want to really build something NEW TOGETHER.

 

Not just writing. Planning to stick around to make it happen of course. After living in NYC you  see the possibilities when you come back home. The meek do not have to inherit what is left...