re: American cities making a come back

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Detroit, Pittsburgh, Birmingham and Cleveland

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Downtown Cleveland is actually going through some nice changes, but the rest of the city is still bleeding population and is the most violent city in Ohio...even the suburbs are bleeding population, so i wouldn't put Cleveland close to this discussion yet.

Cleveland City Population:

1950 - 914,808
1960 - 876,050
1970 - 750,903
1980 - 573,822
1990 - 505,616
2000 - 478,403
2010 - 396,815
2020 - 372,624
2024 est - 351,397

Population Loss = 563,411

Cleveland Metropolitan Population:

1950 - 1,759,431
1960 - 2,220,050
1970 - 2,419,274
1980 - 2,277,949
1990 - 2,205,069
2000 - 2,202,871
2010 - 2,185,737
2020 - 2,178,825

Population Loss = 240,449

Until population loss stops in both the city proper and the suburbs, i dont know how a city can be considered "making a comeback". Make no mistake, i am rooting for Cleveland as it has a HUGE amenity going for it in the Lake Erie lakefront, but its going to take half a century to turn Cleveland completely around. That's just the truth...