Shrinking has been out of the news for a few weeks, which isn't a surprise since nothing is really happening with it. However, the
New York Times put together a piece that touches on the basics, looks at the problems, and points out there really isn't a solution in place at this point.
Excerpt from the
New York Times:
"People are deciding we can't live like this anymore," said Steven A.
Ogden, executive director of a nonprofit group, Next
Detroit Neighborhood Initiative, which works to help stabilize
communities. "It is my contention that we can't afford to wait a single
day without a strategy."
Strategies are now coming from every corner, with community groups and
nonprofit organization and trade groups producing frameworks.
The burst of creativity is partly a function of desperation. For the
sixth decade in a row, this year's census will bring bad news: the
population, already sparsely distributed over a vast 139 square miles,
has declined again, to an estimated 790,000 residents, down from 951,000
people in 2000 and a high of almost 2 million in 1950. Population loss
was hastened in the last few years, experts said, by the twin blows of
the foreclosure crisis and jobs lost to the recession.
Read the entire article
here.
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