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Originally Posted by The North One
Highland Park historically was completely white and very well off. Hamtramck was always heavily immigrant and working class. So when white flight panic was in full force HP was obviously much more vulnerable than Hamtramck.
Hamtramck having more residential density than the city core isn't surprising at all. Immigrant neighborhoods with packed in families tend to have more density than bougie downtowns that are mostly made up of large commercial buildings and expensive apartments.
Highland Park's multifamily housing is mostly all gone, today it's dominated by historical grandiose single family homes more than anything else. I guess that housing stock was much more desired by those that moved in or stayed in HP. Hopefully as multifamily mixed used development keeps crawling up Woodward It'll get some of that density back.
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I'd love to see this, it just seems like a hard sell at this point. Highland Park would do well in actively promote itself as a place for new immigrants through visa and grant programs for small business startups.