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This is real ... and industrial capitalism at its finest: As Detroit seeks to leave bankruptcy behind and get back on its feet—ramping up development with construction of a light rail and a new hockey arena that will cost the city hundreds of millions of dollars—it is simultaneously bearing witness to a process that could evict up to 142,000 of its residents, many of whom are too poor to pay their property taxes. Detroit is 83 percent African-American, and 38 percent of its population lives below the poverty line. But the older, blacker Detroit starkly contrasts with a whiter, wealthier new Detroit thats been wooed in by tax breaks and living incentives—which gives these evictions a heavily racial subtext.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 05:48:37 +0000

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