Quite an interesting but in the end quite incredible article. A long discussion of the plight of inner cities without a single mention of the real issue. Black violence.
In the US, the primary issue of violence is not associated with immigrants but native black Americans.
We don’t have the assimilation problems caused by Muslims in Europe because Muslims still are a very small percentage of our population.
Luckily for us most of our immigrants are Hispanic who have successfully integrated into our society for centuries.
No the problem is black Americans and especially young black men.
If you have watched The Sopranos you saw the Italian community begin to distance itself from the crime ridden Mafia. When does the apparent tolerance for crime within the black community along with the acceptance by black school administrators of the disruption of classrooms by out of control individuals begin to end? Finally when will fathers who fail to care for and love their children and especially their boy children be openly censured by black leadership? The young Chris Rock joked openly about these issues but he clearly now censors himself.
On X, now without censorship thanks to Elon Musk, out of control violence has become standard fodder for ridicule with blacks typically being the most violent group depicted. Unfortunately, the stereotype of black violence is rooted in reality.
Young black men (15-34) are just 2% of the population yet commit half of the nation’s homicides. A rate an astounding 50 times that of the average American.
Where white people decide to live, shop, vacation and even if they are willing to use public transit (especially women) has been for decades largely based on avoiding large groups of black people because of their perceived and actual tendency to engage in violence. The term white flight in housing patterns has always been used as a disparaging reference when, in truth, it means white common sense. At least touching on this delicate subject as part of the overall discussion would make sense.
Detroit's recent population increase was disproportionately driven by growth in the neighborhoods, not downtown, which has stalled out thanks to WFH and (too early to tell but I suspect) changing tastes among young professionals. Why were the neighborhoods able to grow, despite being home to the poorest group of people in the entire metro area? Because much of the abandoned housing stock was redeveloped.
Having a stock of distressed or abandoned housing isn't the disaster that cities long treated it as. We should be stabilizing + preserving buildings that fall into tax foreclosure so that someone down the line can come in and--for far, far less than ground up construction costs--bring it back to life. If a house is at all salvageable, we should not be spending public money to tear it down.
No question that some select city neighborhoods are coming back and that's good; sometimes those neighborhoods are close to the Downtown. And yes, having folks rehab houses is also good -- that's happened in many neighborhoods in these cities. But there's still a big hole to fill in a lot of these cities.
For sure. My only point is that the housing stock in those places should be treated as a resource, no matter how fast people are leaving. Once it's gone it's impossible to bring back.
Quite an interesting but in the end quite incredible article. A long discussion of the plight of inner cities without a single mention of the real issue. Black violence.
In the US, the primary issue of violence is not associated with immigrants but native black Americans.
We don’t have the assimilation problems caused by Muslims in Europe because Muslims still are a very small percentage of our population.
Luckily for us most of our immigrants are Hispanic who have successfully integrated into our society for centuries.
No the problem is black Americans and especially young black men.
If you have watched The Sopranos you saw the Italian community begin to distance itself from the crime ridden Mafia. When does the apparent tolerance for crime within the black community along with the acceptance by black school administrators of the disruption of classrooms by out of control individuals begin to end? Finally when will fathers who fail to care for and love their children and especially their boy children be openly censured by black leadership? The young Chris Rock joked openly about these issues but he clearly now censors himself.
On X, now without censorship thanks to Elon Musk, out of control violence has become standard fodder for ridicule with blacks typically being the most violent group depicted. Unfortunately, the stereotype of black violence is rooted in reality.
Young black men (15-34) are just 2% of the population yet commit half of the nation’s homicides. A rate an astounding 50 times that of the average American.
Where white people decide to live, shop, vacation and even if they are willing to use public transit (especially women) has been for decades largely based on avoiding large groups of black people because of their perceived and actual tendency to engage in violence. The term white flight in housing patterns has always been used as a disparaging reference when, in truth, it means white common sense. At least touching on this delicate subject as part of the overall discussion would make sense.
Pigs in a blanket cities. Nobody just eats the blanket.
Detroit's recent population increase was disproportionately driven by growth in the neighborhoods, not downtown, which has stalled out thanks to WFH and (too early to tell but I suspect) changing tastes among young professionals. Why were the neighborhoods able to grow, despite being home to the poorest group of people in the entire metro area? Because much of the abandoned housing stock was redeveloped.
Having a stock of distressed or abandoned housing isn't the disaster that cities long treated it as. We should be stabilizing + preserving buildings that fall into tax foreclosure so that someone down the line can come in and--for far, far less than ground up construction costs--bring it back to life. If a house is at all salvageable, we should not be spending public money to tear it down.
No question that some select city neighborhoods are coming back and that's good; sometimes those neighborhoods are close to the Downtown. And yes, having folks rehab houses is also good -- that's happened in many neighborhoods in these cities. But there's still a big hole to fill in a lot of these cities.
For sure. My only point is that the housing stock in those places should be treated as a resource, no matter how fast people are leaving. Once it's gone it's impossible to bring back.
Agreed! That's why I quoted my friend as saying you can build your way out of a housing surplus (by building more new housing).