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The city of Detroit was in a financial crisis back to at least 2004. I believe that it was the 2004 Census that put the city below 1M people, which lost them a
by pyre 12y ago
The city of Detroit was in a financial crisis back to at least 2004. I believe that it was the 2004 Census that put the city below 1M people, which lost them a lot of Federal dollars.
- maxerickson 12y agoIt's reasonable to look as far back as the 1970s/1980s when the net population of Wayne+Oakland counties stopped increasing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_County,_Michigan#Demographics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_County,_Michigan#Demograp... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_County,_Michigan#Demographics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_County,_Michigan#Demogr... The decline didn't quite start then, but the drop in population is certainly one of the big contributing factors.