How did Highland park become as bad of an area it is?|133384

It_s worse than the place formerly known as Cabenie Green that used to be in Chicago.

Hamtramack and Highland Park have got to be the worst parts of Detroit.

Why hasn_t anyone given any consideration to cleaning up these places?

Hamtramack and Highland Park are separate cities that happen to be surrounded by Detroit. Detroit has nothing to do with those cities.
I can_t say much for Hamtramack, except there used to be a lot of Polish people there. They had nice stores, and a feeling of safeness.
Highland Park was once a city were the elite lived, you could probably compare it to today_s Birmingham. They had lots of small shops, was where Henry Ford had his first assembly line. Chrysler_s world headquarters were there until the 90_s. The Davison Freeway was the FIRST freeway in the world ( all 2.8 miles of it)
Highland Park is the birthplace of Bill Haley, the artist who first made music that later became known as rock_n_ roll.
The Ford plant gave birth to Hazel Park ( known as a bedroom community) The workers couldn_t afford to live in Highland Park.
My Dad spent the early part of his life in Highland Park, he showed me the house that he grew up in, it was a mansion.
Take a drive through Highlan Park, you can see the once lavish homes.....all wasted.
There is still some industry in Highland Park but 90% of its gone. I don_t know how they exist with no Tax base. What that and those city_s need is major investment.

DRUGS. Plain and simple. Drugs and poverty took over Highland park and turned it into a land of crackheads and prostitutes.

Hamtramck is nowhere near as bad as Highland Park. Both these towns are broke as crap though so they don_t even have the money to clean it up if they wanted to.

Maybe if the Mayor stops getting lawsuits thrown at him, we_d have more money to help these cities out.

No one that lives in Highland Park cares. I don_t know about Hamtramack.
Neither has any industry for a tax base. Any companies that were viable left them decades ago.

When the economy changed in the 1960s people started taking single family homes and turning them into apartments. The people living there didn_t have the right to fix things up (because they were renters) or the money (economic downturn) and things just got worse and worse.

While there are huge problems with drugs and some people don_t care, most of the people there care about their community but don_t have the tax base in the city government to do much about it. There have been recent improvements and development in the area, including a new very nice strip mall with an Aldi.

Hamtramck is a vibrant community with a lot of eclectic shops, etc. It is NOT the worst part of Detroit.

That is solid evidence that political figure heads like Kwame Kilpatrick only cared about the welfare of his own neighbor hood and ignores the needs of the rest of the city.

Let_s just say that the area doesn_t have a very high rate of intellegence.......