[ChiMIchael]

Originally Posted by galleyfox

With all due respect to the South side… immigration is their only hope.

Even assuming that nobody moves to the suburbs, to other neighborhoods, or to other cities (impossible), there is barely enough youth population to make up for the current number of elderly residents.

There would need to be a mass migration from Detroit, St. Louis, or the South, and that’s just not happening.

There’s no restoring South side neighborhoods without more population. Even wealthy households remaining at the current population would struggle to support retail.



Black Alone - B01001B ACS
Total: 736,230

0-4: 40,255
5-14: 90,815
15-24: 90,755
25-34: 114,529
35-44: 92,722
45-54: 88,045
55-64: 93,558
65-74: 75,258
75-84: 36,709
85+: 13,584

<17: 158,996
65+: 125,551

No you're right. I think many of the residents want to hold out for some utopia that's not realistic in the way they would like it. I feel sorry for the older residents that want to maintain the culture and history of their communities, but there's not enough young people who upholds that value.