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Originally Posted by iheartthed
I think the city started to estimate growth around 2017. But even if true that won't show up on the 2020 census.
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It's hardly scientific, but if you Google Streetview non-core neighborhoods in Detroit, and compare 2008-09 to more recent views, you see dramatic changes. Practically every residential street has more vacant lots or boarded up buildings:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.4055...7i13312!8i6656
Often the East Side has ridiculous decline:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.4203...7i13312!8i6656
And same goes for retail corridors:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3923...7i13312!8i6656
Again, totally subjective observation, but it's difficult to imagine population growth in the face of growing abandonment. Outside of the NW Detroit professional neighborhoods, the core, and maybe the Mexican parts of SW, blight is still expanding.