Each abandon house can tell a story, from years of happiness to years of sadness. I can imagine just looking at the houses what a wonderful place it used to be. So sad...

I grew up here. What happened is that over the last FOUR DECADES OR MORE, the city government has been lining their pockets and forgot they were supposed to be upholding standards, implementing policies and looking out for the citizens that were in their charge!!! It's sad, disgraceful and evil. 😢😠

Must be weird living on a block where your house is the only one not abandoned...

I've no words. This brought me to tears. Detroit, at one time, was one of the most prosperous cities in the U.S. Its painful to see it like this.

Judging by those houses, Detroit must have once been quite a beautiful city.

I'm Brazilian, my grandfather's cousin, both Portuguese, went to Detroit in the 1920's to work in the automotive industry.With his earnings he bought many properties in Portugal and became rich.

These homes are massive and beautiful, I can only imagine how this place use to look back in the day . I’m sure it was beautiful ❤

I grew up in Oak Park, Michigan. It borders the City. There's a noticeable difference when you go from the suburbs that border the City to the City itself. Its really sad I've watched this City in the 60s and it was absolutely gorgeous. Most of the City looks like a war zone with pockets of what it used to look like.

Seeing this always brings tears to my eyes. I grew up in Detroit, and it was so much prettier 55 years ago. The house I grew up in has been gone for at least 20 years.😢

My grandma lived in one at Grand River and Schafer, on Hartwell. It was a beautiful neighborhood. Once the riots happened, it was never the same and it just continued to deteriorate for the last 5 decades. Heartbreaking.

I’m sure if you do your research you’ll understand how this happened. It’s not a mystery.

As a carpenter, it’s heartbreaking to see the disrepair. I’ve worked in Detroit many times, during what some call the “rebirth “, and I assure you, it’s a crock. There’s no rebirth happening, it’s lipstick on a pig. I hate going down there to work, as everything we build will eventually be destroyed.

It's just so sad. Thanks for showing reality as difficult as it is to see.

50 years ago, Detroit had 30,000 people going to work on three shifts, every day. They spent their money locally, and then it all stopped.

One can only imagine how heart breaking it would be if an original owner were to see their home in such a state. How sad and what an incredible waste.

I grew up in Detroit suburbs, some of these look like my grandparents houses. Many families were supported by factory workers. The deserted factories are really hellish to see.

What makes this even more depressing is the time of year this was filmed in. The bare trees, dead grass, and grey skies make it look even more post-apocalyptic. Such large homes too. Sad.

A lot of these homes could be fixed , they have good wood , these homes years ago were beautiful and people had good memories, children born , family dinners , all when the economy was booming.

You can tell, these used to be beautiful homes. It's now heartbreaking.

Born and raised in Detroit, spent 30-years of my life there. Truly sad how the city has been destroyed.

Words cannot express the sadness that I feel seeing this!!!

Interesting to see the abandoned homes and big cars that are not cheap across the road!

The fact that the city looks even more depressing around the time you were filming. It looks even more like a warzone because all of the plants look dead. And the gray sky doesn't make it look any better

I'm from Russia. We also have such places, but they are located mainly in rural areas. I see that large trees grow near abandoned houses. If I were a writer, maybe I would write a story about how trees and houses talk to each other, remembering people with whom they have lived for decades, remembering their joys and sorrows, birth, childhood.....

Back in my day, people had a sense of pride in their homes and gardens. Some of these houses are older homes which tend to be better built and structurally strong. They could easily be restored to their former glory with a little bit of initiative and a bit of artistic vision as well.

It is done deliberate how can u move businesses overseas and local people are left to suffer

Can you imagine what it must be like living in a place like this .

You really picked the perfect day to film this... dark, overcast late winter day, which Im sure was a cool, if not cold day, adds to dreariness, and gloom. I've never been to Detroit, but that's really sad to see, just the same. Im in Dallas, and although Im sure there are pockets around town may be similar to that, but I know of none, and I've been here since 1969. My heart goes out to people who have lost there way of life theree, and I hope those that left altogether found a better life. Great video.👍🏿

The Detroit ruins are equally as fascinating as they are sad. Thanks again for another great video.

Do you ever get spooked when you're filming? The grey overcast sky and the dead wintery vegetation really all combine to give such an eerie feeling. Definitely wouldn't want to be here at night.

Ветхость и запустение, грустно когда умирают деревни, но очень больно когда умирают города!

Such beautiful homes. Loving Families once lived there planted trees, nutured a garden, celebrated Christmases... Unspeakably sad. Brought me to tears. I am from the Midwest. I have lived in Australia the last 30 years. What has happened to my country

America is possibly the only country in the world in which cities look like utter war zones during peacetime. We have simply given up.

Great great video as always. Plain and simple, it's simply unbelievable

I have a long since moved away from Detroit, but I grew up there as a little girl. I remember the fox theater was such a beautiful place to go. This is because of neglect the government, their socks, and they should all be replaced. It’s really a shame.

Печально смотреть на пустые и заброшенные дома...к сожалению у нас в России тоже много заброшенных поселков,где когда то кипела жизнь....

Dayum...growning up in the 60s & 70s and spending time with fam in Detroit.. I never would have dreamed this would have happened ...

It looks like the outskirts of a neuclear strike! This is sad because it used to be a really nice place at one time and the homes were gorgeous! And the zone is enormous!

I am from Germany but i love Detroit. Great musicians, wonderful people. My dead husband was from Detroit. God bless everyone.

So sad to see such beautiful homes that were once lived in by so many families. You can tell by the craftmanship that these were really well built homes. Such a tragedy. :o( Please stay safe and thank you for the post.

My mother grew up in Highland Park, a suburb of Detroit, in the 20’-40’s. We used to visit my grandmother there, in the 50’s-60’s. Was only starting to get scary then. I see her street on Google Earth street view now, and it looks like these streets your traveling down. No longer a place to visit!

Such a shame. A lot of those old homes are big and beautiful! Such potential, and it clearly was a beautiful town at one point. It's so sad that a lot of us will never know the joys of home ownership, and yet homes literally sit and rot away. The only way I could see reviving any of that area, is to build a gated community of some sort, but then it becomes a prison in and of itself. And we still continue to outsource jobs overseas, to countries that literally HATE us......yet they sure do like to take our money. Thanks for the videos.

I don’t “enjoy watching this kind of stuff”, but I do appreciate you documenting it for posterity. Stay safe out there.

"It's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it." -George Carlin

In the UK not a single one of these houses would be empty and most of them would be worth £300,000 - £500,000.

And yet you can't buy any of these properties for less than 25 thousand. This country has a serious problem when it comes to the outrageous property values it has established. Lower those and watch how fast places like this come back to life.

Imagine you're driving here at night..this is straight up from a horror movie.

This is what I saw daily growing up in Detroit. Abandoned houses and buildings. No grass, no trees, no flowers. No beauty. It was gloomy and still is. Why is there never any sun?? This is depressing.

Such beautiful grand houses. It must have been so pretty and full of joy and life at one time. Such a shame,

So scary. Going to this deserted area is itself a nightmare.

Watching this, I thought, people raised their families there, loved and fought and made up and moved on. This breaks my heart.

omg this is heart breaking.. i bet this was once a great thriving community.. this now looks like a scene from a online video game with the run down ruins 😔

This is more horrific beyond description, never knew how bad Detroit got after everything that happen for the past 3 years. Thank you for this with me.

Those houses are big. I bet that was a wealthy area when those houses were built. I would love to see video of this neighborhood when these houses were first built.

I think what makes Detroit twice as depressing to look at is the miserable weather. The constant grey skies are just so grim. Yeah, it would still look terrible if it were sunny, but the grey skies say there’s absolutely no hope.

And yet Hummers are parked on Holmur Street! What does that tell you? 😳 This was once a grand neighborhood.

Detroit grew to an incredible size in the 1920’s via annexation of surrounding townships, then suburbs started sprouting around Detroit in the 1950’s as heavy industry gradually pulled up and left. Now Detroit is saddled with a landmass that equals Manhattan, San Francisco, and Boston combined with a shadow of it’s former peak population of around 2 million. Detroit is far better than 10 years ago, but work remains in the neighborhoods.

At one time Detroit lost 65% of its population. When a hurricane hut New Orleans they lost 65% of their population for a time. Detroit didn't experience a sudden devastation, but a gradual erosion by greedy mayors and their cronies. Detroit is coming back with a new leadership but it will take a long time to raise it up from the ashes.

Я из России смотрю это видео какие же красивые дома, смотря на их заброшенный вид очень жаль, смотря на это видео Представляешь сколько там было жизни а теперь и всё в запустенье.В чём причина этого,почему там не живут люди?

I remember being a kid in the early eighties living .walking around the streets playing in alleyways not a worry of something bad happening. Now Detroit has become a nightmare

Didnt realise America was a dump, thanks for the video mate

There's 53,000 abandoned homes in Detroit

These houses are well built with love, that's why they are still standing. Nothing built today would last this long.

Never seen a modern city actually fade away like this....

This is sad. I wonder what the answer would be to fix this place up? A lot of wasted land. Back in the day I bet this place was really something. Thanks for sharing.

Detroit used to be so beautiful. Sad it's destroyed. It still has potential of being beautiful and developed. It's just Michigan politicians don't want to invest in it and wealthy people don't want to fix it and live in it. So, it's basically filled with poor people and damaged neighborhoods/houses.

Because we outsourced manufacturing and transitioned our economy to service based. We didn't realize the consequences. We all messed up big time

Entire blocks where the owners abandoned the homes have been sold to overseas investors, mainly Europeans, through county tax liens (because the owners were not paying their property taxes). The block owners expect that some time in the future the lots will be cleared by the city or county and the selling prices of the lots will be restored. The land is still quite valuable. America, be patient and don't give up on these areas.

Such beautiful old houses each with unique architectural style.

Yes that's the way it looked I'm from Detroit Born and raised some of the houses are set on fire and some of the houses was not set on fire but went up because of the bad wiring that's in those houses The houses are old knob and tubing wiring which is bad the insulation comes off the wires in the house and start a fire ,some of the houses just wasn't kept up by the owners and the other houses when somebody move out they go in there and tear up the house taking copper wiring plumbing out the house The furnace water heater to make money it is shame!! They've been tearing them down and people don't take care of their homes in Detroit no money.

Seeing dilapidated and abandoned house saddens me profoundly. There might have been some compelling reasons for people to abandon them who once called it their home. Many beautiful people might have lived in these houses filling them with their peals of laughter

This is a national disgrace. Shame on all those companies that left America high and dry, for the almighty buck they can make overseas.

The good days are gone forever. This must have been a beautiful place in its heyday.

So depressing. These people use to have good lives. It's all been taken away

At 2:35 I recognized the old Thompson Funeral Home on Dexter and Whitney. I lived there in the mid 60’s / mid 70’s (born in 64). The area was full of families and businesses. Really sad to see how much it’s declined.

So Sad what happened 😢 thanks for sharing this

Awesome thanks 👍 big fan of your channel 💯 holy cow what disaster 😦

I live in the Detroit 'burbs. Sometimes I drive through these areas to remind myself to be grateful.

Thank you for the tour at Detroit Michigan ❤

Forty years ago took a trip to Buffalo. Drove through an area similar to this, but not quite as bad. Most houses looked abandoned, with people sitting on a porch every few houses.

Breaks my heart to see my birth city like this 😢

So sad to see. But great video as always

Сразу видно, что дома старые: построены из кирпича, гаражей нет. Бум на строительство деревянных домов в Америке начался после окончания второй мировой войны. А значит эти домики построены, скорее всего, в начале тридцатых годов двадцатого века. Жалко, конечно, всё это видеть. Их бы привести в надлежащий вид, модернизировать и заселить в них тех людей, у кого нет своего дома.

Those homes were gorgeous! There was a real amazing community there at one time.😢

Когда-то это всё строилось, развивалось, радовалось жизни. Всё было хорошо и красиво, а потом что-то случилось и всё пришло в запустение. Как грустно.

Thanks for the video! Also wondering "What happened here"? Me - living in Sweden, and can say, that what this video shows, could never happen here, because the authorities will never allow this to happen.

Such beautiful craftsman homes. They look like they were built really well. So heartbreaking.

I once lived in Ann Arbor, near Detroit. Unbelievable. Where have all the people gone who lived in those many many vacant houses ? Did they move out to other cities ?

Hello, could you explain why the houses were like that? What is the reason for abandonment?

Hard to believe there are still people living in this area with so many surrounding homes collapsing and falling apart.

I grew up on six or seven mile and Gratiot. On a street called SPRING GARDEN. It's near Grotto Catholic School. Are you familiar with Spring Garden? The area there? I"m 62 years old now and living in the Philippines. If you can, would you kindly record both sides of the entire street of Spring Garden for me, please? I have not been there in 50 years!

Its actually depressing watching all these abandoned houses with hardly anyone living in those areas...seems like a lot of crime and poverty mixed together...

What a shame to leave these houses in such way!

Take any large city, ship 195,000 of 225,000 living wage jobs to other countries. Amazing what will happen.

Уххх... Какие заброшенные дома! Я так понимаю по большей части эта недвижимость - ипотечная. В результате того что производства закрыли люди остались без работы и денег и перестав платить ипотеку попросту свалили в более благополучные в плане работы места. Такую недвижимость не продать, покупатели разъехались. Содержать - дорого. По идее... Это надо всё сносить и засаживать обратно лесом. Вернуть в лоно природы так сказать.

Дома кирпичные добротные хорошие. Видно что люди собирались там еще долго жить.

What happened here?These were no doubt beautiful,large houses that were constructed with excellent materials and the very best of engineering and workmanship. Where are the people who once were living here? This is beyond sad.😢😭

they have videos of Oakland California like this. the houses still have people living in them, with tall steel fences with spikes on top. homeless people everywhere. abandoned cars everywhere. in another 20 years Oakland will be like this, abandoned homes, falling apart and burned out. Imagine what that neighborhood looked like in the 40's. must have really been something.

Sad...all of those houses once had families, love, warmth, hope and happiness...

the worst thing tho is this took 30 or 40 years to happen nobody did anything to stop it