Current Housing
When people think of Detroit, Michigan, they think of abandonment and crime, and Motor City. The truth is though, that Detroit right now is at its lowest population since 1925. Having a city with a population of 1.8 million and having that number plummet to 680,250 (2014). When you think of buying a house, you think its going to be a huge investment and that you are going to be paying for that for the rest of your life, (kinda like college loans!). Although in compassion to, lets say Chicago, an average house in Chicago cost $196,000. But when you compare that to a house in Detroit, at $39,000 a house in Chicago seems like a mansion. Unfortunately people are selling their homes for even as low as $100. they can't afford to keep up with payments or they can't handle the responsibility, none the less its terrible to see people in our own country living like this in neighborhoods that could have so much potential, as we have seen that potential in previous years.
Poverty Rates
We don't realize how bad something is in life until we experience it first hand. When you drive past a homeless person on the street, what do you think? "they did that to themselves?" "I feel so bad, I'm going to give them money". I, like so many others, have seen what its like to see a homeless person on the street. Its not a fun time, I feel bad for all those people. Nobody deserves to live on the streets, it doesn't matter what you have done. Now I'm telling you about this because the poverty rate in Detroit is at a whopping 39.8% with children under the age of 18 at a rate of 58%. I look back on my life with I was 17 or younger and i could not imagine living on the street. I would not know the first thing about survival. But there are children that have to live like that everyday on the streets of Detroit. They have to fend for themselves in the bitter cold, or the scorching heat. They have to protect themselves from other homeless people who would look at them as weak. Personally, homeless people are some of the strongest people in my opinion. I can't stand outside in the freezing cold for 10 minutes let alone sleeping in it. The poverty rate is just a contributing factor as to why people are leaving Detroit. Then again it could also be why natives are not leaving. They don't have money to leave and cannot afford to go anywhere else. Most Detroit natives don't have a great education if any at all. Roughly 47% of adults in Detroit are illiterate. They grew up not going to school, they worked in the factories to help stay afloat, or to help their families.
Jobs
With an unemployment rate of 9.8% in Detroit that is actually a lot better than the 12-16% between 2009 and 2011. Yes, it is getting better, but it could be better. The natives there don't know anything other than working in a factory. How can consumers expect these people to work when they barely have a high school education and all they know if how to work with their hands. These days its almost impossible to get a job without some type of college degree. Not to mention that everything is based on technology in someway or another. These people need jobs but they don't know how to do what consumers are wanting. That is why the Detroit natives will not leave, also maybe because they cannot afford it, but also because they know they won't be able to get a job somewhere else so whats the point of leaving what they have known all their lives.