Good evening. The area around Graschit in 7 Mile and Detroit's east side has been invaded

by a horde of suburban dope fiends, hundreds of them, a veritable drug-burbia, a greater

metapolitan area, if you will, and if City Hall doesn't start paying some attention around

there soon, Detroit very well may become the next San Francisco. The homeless ratio is roughly

the same in Frisco as it is in Detroit, but here you don't see the junkies flopped out on the streets.

In Motown, they've taken up residents in the abandoned houses, most of which are owned by the

incompetent and absentee Detroit Land Bank Authority. San Francisco population 810,000 in falling

counted 7,700 homeless people last year. Detroit, population 630,000 in falling, claims 5600 homeless.

Surely Detroit's number is an undercount since the data is over two years old and collected at

the height of the pandemic. HUD requires any community that receives federal funding for homelessness

to conduct a headcount on a single night once every two years and it's usually on the coldest

night. This includes people in shelters or sleeping outdoors, in cars, in palettes, or other places

not considered permanent housing. This would include those living in condemned houses I would

presume, but I've never seen a homeless head counter knocking on those doors in the dead of a frosty

night. Consider Liberal Street, which ought to be renamed Lazy Fair Boulevard since the city seems

to completely ignore it. The houses are burned up, trashes everywhere, and the junkies have taken

them over and also the abandoned RVs in the alleyways. Remind yourself, regular people live here.

School kids live here and the dope houses aren't hard to find. Just follow the white women with

bruises on their legs or the men picking imaginary insects from their faces. One tweak or

scold me to get off his land that he was fixing the place up for his father. I checked the property

belongs to the land bank. The legitimate longtime neighbors complain to the city. They get nothing.

Their city councilman Scott Benson is no help. Most people around there don't even know who's

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