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Shri Thanedar: “Detroit, city of Detroit, which is really designed to have 2…”

Featuring: Shri Thanedar, Democratic | U.S. House Michigan, 13th Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 25:34

Well, look, the way we are going, we lost one congressional seat and we are likely to lose another congressional seat in the next census if we continue on this path. We have continuously lost people. And Detroit, city of Detroit, which is really designed to have 2 million people, in the best days of Detroit, we had what, 1.8 million people in the city of Detroit. Today we are a third of that. Just 600,000 people in Detroit. We lost just in last 10 years, we lost one out of every seven people. (25:34–25:49)

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Asserts that Detroit was designed for 2 million people and had 1.8 million at its peak.

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