![]() ![]() Jay Aho and his wife, Tanya, have seen improvements in their eastside neighborhood. “The economic development strategy is what’s driving it.” ![]() “Very little of our recovery had anything to do with the bankruptcy,” Duggan said Tuesday, pointing to business developments and neighborhood improvement projects. Thousands more were renovated and put on the market to attract or keep families in Detroit. More than 24,000 abandoned houses and other vacant structures were demolished, mostly using federal funds. Hoping to slow the exodus of people and businesses from Detroit - its population plummeted from about 1.8 million in 1950 to below 700,000 in 2013 - and increase the tax base, Duggan's administration began pushing improvements to city services and quality of life. Mike Duggan was elected mayor and took office in 2014. "But the alternatives of what was going to happen - just on the math - would have been significantly worse.” “I’ve read about the pain, the very real pain,” he told the AP. The pension cuts were necessary, Orr insisted. Businesses, foundations and the state donated more than $800 million to soften the pension cuts and preclude the sale of city-owned art. Rick Snyder in 2013 to fix Detroit's budget deficit and its underfunded pensions, healthcare costs and bond payments.ĭetroit exited bankruptcy in December 2014 with about $7 billion in debt restructured or wiped out and $1.7 billion set aside to improve city services. The architect of the bankruptcy filing was Kevyn Orr, a lawyer hired by then-Gov. "It’s going to have to come out of our pensions.” “I don’t see us ever getting healthcare back,” he said. You would retire with a good pension," said Berent, who told The Associated Press that his monthly pension payments will be more than $1,000 lower than expected due to the bankruptcy.īerent's city-funded healthcare also ends with retirement, five years before he's eligible for Medicare. "You become a firefighter because that’s your passion and you’ll make a decent living. But Berent and others who spent years on Detroit's payroll say they can’t help but feel left behind. city to file for bankruptcy.Ī decade later, the Motor City has risen from the ashes of insolvency, with balanced budgets, revenue increases and millions of dollars socked away. Thousands of city employees and retirees lost big on July 18, 2013, when a state-appointed manager made Detroit the largest U.S. “A second job affords you to have a little bit of extra.” “I’m trying to put as much money away as a I can,” said Berent, who also works in sales. He was a monster and deserved and needed to be killed.10 years since bankruptcy, Detroit's finances are better but city workers and retirees feel burnedĭETROIT (AP) - Mike Berent has spent more than 27 years rushing into burning houses in Detroit, pulling people to safety and ensuring his fellow firefighters get out alive.īut as the 52-year-old Detroit Fire Department lieutenant approaches mandatory retirement at age 60, he says one thing is clear: He will need to keep working to make ends meet. So Luca gave into hate and rage, there was no coming back from what he does next or what he did in the war against the City-States. Luca was mentaly weak to handle the stress of what happened to his mother and then his father's cowardice. Jowy doesn't go around slaughtering innocent people just for the fun of it like Luca did. If you want an example of someone trying to change the City-States in a better manner, look at Jowy. He wasn't all that intelligent either, he executed a loyal general, Soloon Jhee just because he failed. Luca was not a good person, if he wanted to conquer the City-States there were other ways of doing as illustraded by Jowy taking Greenhill. He needed to be stopped, and there wasn't anything short of DEATH that was going to do it. It doesn't however matter how he would be if he wasn't insane, because he IS insane and DOES do those things. The potential for him to become a maniac was there but he needed that event to turn him into one. The point is that Luca choose to go down that path and bury himself into hatred which eventually made him insane, I don't think he was that way at first. Would Luca still be this way? No he wouldn't, events in our lives shape us just as they did for Luca. So bascialy your asking if Luca didn't witness his mother's rape, or if she wasn't at all. ![]()
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