Detroit!

At long last I’ll be shooting our first segment in Detroit this June 17th - 24th. I’ll be speaking with faculty at the Taubman College in Ann Arbor, docents at Detroit’s museums, and everyday people in neighborhoods throughout the metro.

I live on the Westside of Los Angeles where the average home price is over $1,000,000. There are neighborhoods in Detroit with average home values of $20,000. I can’t help but wonder whether an ambitious fixer-upper wouldn’t be making a solid investment by buying an entire neighborhood in Detroit and fixing it up a bit - testing some broken windows theory. It would only cost as much as buying a house in Los Angeles.

The satellite image below is near central “urban” Detroit.