The inspiring story of Detroit, Michigan’s comeback a decade after declaring for bankruptcy--a revitalization effort led by Mayor Mike Duggan.
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Main Video and Information Sources:
Mayor Duggan plows snow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb-R9bhslTo
Mayor-elect Duggan on bankruptcy https://youtu.be/Eydmk4ez8fI
Emergency response time https://youtu.be/8tA8w9YlCms
Abandoned home crackdown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7sU-Vgo8lo
10,000th abandoned house knocked down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRsQT1JpMkQ
Demolishing homes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFRZQCDWEwg
Demolition tracker map https://detroitmi.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/nearby/index.html?appid=41ba8dd946d842b9ba632ecc0a5d2556
NY Times: Detroit’s Rebound
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/12/business/economy/detroit-economy-rebound.html
Detroit grows in population https://detroitmi.gov/news/detroit-grows-population-first-time-decades#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20estimate%2C%20Detroit,population%20for%20Detroit%20was%20631%2C366.
15 exciting projects https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/15-new-detroit-developments-to-be-excited-about-photos/Slideshow/32734721/32735396
Michigan Central renovation https://youtu.be/slcLc22urqw
Gordie Howe international bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordie_Howe_International_Bridge
Joe Louis Greenway https://detroitgreenways.org/projects/joe-louis-greenway/
Mayor Duggan day after 2024 NFL draft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXipJ4yFrgI
Carjackings down https://detroitmi.gov/sites/detroitmi.localhost/files/2024-03/Figure-Carjackings.jpg
Murders down https://detroitmi.gov/opportunities/detroit-tackling-crime-across-city
Mayor Mike Duggan with Police Chief James White (and crisis intervention clips) https://youtu.be/e-CQLIGHOAE?si=79awQr_g941D0_jP
Mayor Duggan discusses Detroit’s transformation https://youtu.be/NjATKPlr3O0?si=Jjtqf6D8_as6NhRS
New skilled trades training center https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZXbr1vK_Xc
Detroit's historic architecture:
https://www.hourdetroit.com/development-topics/building-and-rebuilding-a-city/
Music
“Flew Too Close to the Sun” Stephen Keech
“Look at You” The Satellite Station
“Endless Travel” Tiko Tiko
“Mountain Climbing” C.K. Martin
“Trop” Greg McKay
“Chapters” Josh Leake
Chapters
0:00 Welcome to Detroit
0:28 Bankruptcy
1:15 Demolition Man
3:02 Rebirth
3:48 Old is New for Ford at Michigan Central
4:36 Book Tower's facelift
4:43 University of Michigan comes downtown
4:57 Gordie Howe International Bridge to Canada
5:20 Riverfront=Park and Joe Louis Greenway Loop
5:35 NFL Draft Spotlights the Comeback
5:49 America's best police department?
6:13 Confronting the mental health crisis: Mayor Duggan & Chief White
7:58 Crisis intervention team [TRIGGER WARNING - suicide and self-harm interventions]
11:44 Tackling poverty
12:37 Take the Us vs. Them Politics out of it: "Tell 'em what you're gonna do for them"
Ten years ago, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan hopped in a snow plow on his first day in office to assess how well the government he’d just taken charge of was performing its most basic service.
It was a make-or-break moment for the Motor City, having just become the largest municipality in American history to file for bankruptcy.
100 years earlier, in the roaring ‘20s, Detroit vied with Chicago and New York to be the skyscraper capital of the world. In the 1950s its population peaked at 1.8 million, but decades of factory closures, rising crime, and migration to the suburbs cut it by nearly 2/3rds, to about 680,000 in 2013–too small a taxbase to pay the city’s bills without help from the state of Michigan and federal government.
Luckily, the newly elected mayor knew exactly what to do.
“We won’t come out of bankruptcy until we do have the prospect for a balanced budget going forward, and then the question is are we competent enough to manage so that we never slip back again.”
Duggan’s plan focused on performing the city’s core services well again, and after a decade of hard-fought, incremental progress, the results speak for themselves.
“New equipment helps with emergency response times. Detroit is already below the national average at seven minutes 33 seconds. For context, before bankruptcy, wait times could top 20 minutes.”
Most calls had been the result of crime in and around Detroit’s 40,000 abandoned houses.
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