Originally Posted by
old goat
Hamtramck is a fairly dense town of mostly detached single and multi-family houses occupied originally mostly by autoworkers, certainly not rich, but well-maintained. Not a slum by any means. I don't know what it's like today but given the high number of immigrants I suspect it is still that way. It is a self governing city, independent of Detroit.
Detroit itself is unusual among big cities for the high number of detached single and multifamily houses in its core--of course a lot of those houses are now in poor repair, or gone. Compared to industries like meat packing in Chicago or the garment industry in NYC the auto industry at one time supported a relatively prosperous working class--both Black and White.
Benny--have you been to Hamtramck? Detroit? Detroit Metro area?