Time, Inc. buys house in Detroit (Highland Park: low income, neighborhoods, buying)

[Cliffie]

MICHIGAN: Time Inc. Moves Into Detroit (2009-09-21)

I heard this newscast yesterday, and although I can't see any dramatic outcomes stemming from it, I found it reassuring. Time's reporters are seeking a more nuanced view of the metro area. The reporter who will be living here full-time commented that they tend to fly out, cover a story (usually bad these days) and fly back, wishing they had time to look into the interesting, creative, positive things they see happening, like farming and community gardening in the downtown area, refurbishign neighborhoods, and so on. Maybe this will stir up some more positive thinking about the city for a change. It would be almost funny if we became creative leaders for the other states just starting to go over the financial cliff, in a mother-of-invention role-model sort of way.

[The GreenVillain]

Time recently did a photo essay of Detroit and it was pretty depressing. As a former Detroiter I was deeply disturbed by the piece. It seemed that Time was only interested in the bad and the ugly and not many of the good things going on in the city.

[Coldjensens]

Did they pay more than $1 for the house?

[100LL]

they paid $99,000 I think...looks like a nice house from the articles

[Coldjensens]

For $99,000 it should be a mansion. I read somehwere recently that the average home price in Detroit is $5800. I am not sure whether that is true.

[Vicman]

Originally Posted by The GreenVillain

Time recently did a photo essay of Detroit and it was pretty depressing. As a former Detroiter I was deeply disturbed by the piece. It seemed that Time was only interested in the bad and the ugly and not many of the good things going on in the city.

There is some good, but as Richard Geib, a Los Angeles schoolteacher said on his website, "It seemed not all problems had answers, and that the good did not always prevail over the evil" - relating to the low income immigrant middle school. Los Angeles Unified School District: Inner-City Teacher Blues - In Detroit the evil is prevailing over the good.

[Cliffie]

Originally Posted by Coldjensens

For $99,000 it should be a mansion. I read somehwere recently that the average home price in Detroit is $5800. I am not sure whether that is true.

Well, they didn't say they bought a crack house in Highland Park! This is going to be sort of a B&B for journalists from respected periodicals. I would expect them to but something pretty nice.

GreenVillain: The guy on the radio who is going to be living in the house said they get sent to cover the depressing stuff, and are buying this place to give them time to cover more of the upbeat stories.

[Tanque Verde]

Originally Posted by Vicman

There is some good, but as Richard Geib, a Los Angeles schoolteacher said on his website, "It seemed not all problems had answers, and that the good did not always prevail over the evil" - relating to the low income immigrant middle school. Los Angeles Unified School District: Inner-City Teacher Blues - In Detroit the evil is prevailing over the good.

The state of California and Los Angeles/Southern California in particular, was literally over run by dirt poor, uneducated illegal immigrants from south of the border in numbers that are nothing short of astonishing. Far to many ( millions ) of the illegals arrived here unable to read and or write in their own language. None were English speaking.

Illegals after arriving here were no help at all to the school districts while having five or six kids, all on the taxpayers dime, they raised up Spanish speaking kids and sent em off to school.

[Cliffie]

Originally Posted by Tanque Verde

The state of California and Los Angeles/Southern California in particular, was literally over run by dirt poor, uneducated illegal immigrants from south of the border in numbers that are nothing short of astonishing. Far to many ( millions ) of the illegals arrived here unable to read and or write in their own language. None were English speaking.

Illegals after arriving here were no help at all to the school districts while having five or six kids, all on the taxpayers dime, they raised up Spanish speaking kids and sent em off to school.

It's safe to say Detroit's problems are totally different.

[Vicman]

It's not really that they are Spanish speaking, so much as many are uneducated and/or illiterate and/or have illiterate or uneducated parents.

Eulises Estrada is the story of an uneducated middle school student who came in from Mexico.

Originally Posted by Tanque Verde

The state of California and Los Angeles/Southern California in particular, was literally over run by dirt poor, uneducated illegal immigrants from south of the border in numbers that are nothing short of astonishing. Far to many ( millions ) of the illegals arrived here unable to read and or write in their own language. None were English speaking.

Illegals after arriving here were no help at all to the school districts while having five or six kids, all on the taxpayers dime, they raised up Spanish speaking kids and sent em off to school.