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Not too informed on this. Have to do some research but didn't this start by them not paying their water bill? Or does Detroit not have enough money to supply the water?
ETA: Just read a few articles: This is where I'm at. Your paying for a service. Just like getting electricity to your house. What happens when you don't pay the electric bill? It gets shut off. The water companies are making it easier to get water to your house. Can't pay the bill? You go back to the old way. Bring a bucket to a creek.
ETA2: Are those guys dressed up as Robin Hood?
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If they are anything like where I used to live in Eastpointe (It's one of Detroit's Northern Suburbs, and actually touches Detroit's Northern border (and buys it's water from Detroit at a markup) they are not even shutting most people off, while they technically CAN shut off anyone over 30 days behind, in practice they are only after the seriously delinquent who are YEARS behind to the order of $10,000+ in back water bills. Everyone else just has their outstanding balance rolled on to their property tax. (For reference I used only about $300-$400 A YEAR in water, and that was at the inflated suburban price, my typical monthly bill was only about 30 something dollars.)
Of course the left ignores this fact, to them water should be free just like everything else, or at least have someone else pay it.
Ever wonder why Detroit has thousands upon Thousands of vacant buildings, and lots (the city is 65% abandoned, at it's height it had about 2,000,000 people, today it's only about 700,000, that officially puts in in the ghost town category)? Part of it is the overwhelming crime, corruption, and decay (Detroits crime rate is about 5.44 times higher than the National Average or about 21.33 per 1,000 vs. 3.9 per 1,000 (Michigan is 4.55), and that is only counting violent crime, and only those crimes actually reported to the police, and only those released by the police (Detroit has a history of DRASTICALLY under reporting crime), the actual rate is much higher. Even going by the official numbers your chances of becoming a victim of a VIOLENT crime in Detroit is 1 in 47, vs. just 1 in 220 in the rest of Michigan), but part of it is back water bills. Houses in Detroit can be had for as low as a dollar (seriously) but with that often comes $10,000
+ in back water bills that must be paid before the city will turn it back on, which often exceeds the value of the home/land.