Reasons for decline:
- Poor housing stock- abandoned apartment buildings, small family homes.
- Few trees, banners and decorative lighting so it is unattractive.
- City centre could not compete with suburban shopping malls, even offices moved to the suburbs.
- Loss of streetcar network, no commuter rail, just buses.
- Corruption in local government.
- Race riots
- Loss of industry from Chrysler, Ford and General Motors
- Negative multiplier effect.
Problems:
- 70,000 abandoned buildings
- 31,000 empty houses
- Urban blight
- High crime rates
- Population decline - 61% loss in 60 years
- Unemployment rate of 23.1%
- Poverty rates of 36.4%
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