Detroits Urban Blight

One of America's cities that has been hit the hardest by Urban Blight is the city of Detroit. I would label this city as having a high level of Urban Blight due to its extremely high crime and unemployment rates. Detroit was once a city that boomed with economic activity and now it is one of the hardest places to find jobs and sustain a comfortable life. An excerpt from my upcoming Assignment 4 essay talks about the city more in depth, ".  A great example is what happened to Detroit, a city that currently is at a 44.8 percent unemployment rate (The Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2009). During the early 20^th century, Henry Ford’s creation of the automobile in Detroit made it a city that had some of the highest paying jobs in the world. Soon after, racial tensions as a result of the Great Migration caused a lot of the businesses to move to the outskirts of town where most people couldn’t afford to commute to. Also, the expansion of Detroit’s businesses out of the country caused a decrease in jobs in the city. With declining economic activity and moving of the rich into the suburbs, the inner areas were abandoned and a dense population of impoverished people settled there. This is where the city of Detroit is currently at now." Detroit and many other cities in the world have been devastated by Urban Blight and something must be done to counter it.