Over half of Detroit's 305,000 property owners failed to pay their 2011 tax bills. So much for schools, emergency services, street lights, garbage pickup etc. Can't imagine roads, bridges and utilities being in good shape.
It's so sparsely populated in some areas that there were 77 blocks with only one owner who paid taxes in 2011.
In 1950 it had 1.8 million people.
In 2010 had 700,000.
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