Requiem For Detroit: Motor City’s Urban Decline

“One in five houses now stand empty. Detroit property prices have fallen 80% or more in last three years. A three-bedroom house on Albany Street is still on the market for $1.

Unemployment has reached 30%; 33.8% of Detroit’s population and 48.5% of its children live below the poverty line. Forty-seven per cent of adults in Detroit are functionally illiterate; 29 Detroit schools closed in 2009 alone.”

Requiem For Detroit explores the urban decline of America’s once mighty motor city. Learn more about the making of the documentary here.