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Originally Posted by iheartthed
I don't trust census estimates but I do think Detroit has probably stabilized. But the stabilization is fragile and we still have a few years to go for it to register on an actual census. In a city that shed hundreds of thousands of people per decade for almost a century, a mild or moderate recession could easily erase the 10,000 residents that Detroit is estimated to have gained since 2020.
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I'd bet 10,000 for the whole decade at most. There will be people still leaving Detroit (probably in smaller numbers though) but I believe the influx of new people in this corridor will be big enough to offset.
I remember there were talks as early as the 2000's that Baltimore would have stopped shrinking, a time where urban living was still a new thing. That hasn't confirmed, Baltimore kept falling, even in the 2010's. Detroit will probably stop its declining before Baltimore which would be a big thing, as Baltimore is on the Northeast corridor, where even the rust beltish Philadelphia has been growing since the turn of the century.
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