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mk  ·  2725 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Detroit’s Underground Economy: Where Capitalism Fails, Alternatives Take Root

Housing is getting quite expensive in some neighborhoods and the city center. Many new businesses and restaurants have been opening, and living spaces are being built and renovated. One Detroit is quickly gentrifying. But, Detroit is a very big city. Much of Detroit is not feeling this.





user-inactivated  ·  2725 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not to mention, as the rent rates in the places that are doing well do go up, some people can't afford to live there anymore and will start to feel some hard budget constraints at best.

user-inactivated  ·  2725 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So, no Detroit Autonomous Oblast' soon, then?