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| Detroit mayor wants new city employees to be forced to live there for 7 years |
| 2013-05-31 |
| Specifically, [Mayor Bing] addressed the fact that citizens -- important citizens -- have been leaving the city in droves. "The people who were the most important that left, in my opinion, were the public safety officials -- the police and fire," Bing said. "When they were in neighborhoods and the community, people felt a little safer," he said. "But now with more than 50 percent of them no longer living in the city, not only don't people feel safe anymore, but you also lose the tax benefits that you were getting." Bing said he thinks it would make sense pass a law that mandates that new employees of the city remain residents of the city of a period of seven years. "In seven years a lot of things can change. And I'm hopeful in seven years we'll see the city change and people will want to come back to the city," he said. Wouldn't it make more sense to require existing employees to live there for the next 7 years? If they refuse, fire them & hire substitutes for less. Might also tend to improve the underfunded city pension problem, either by attrition of existing employees who refuse, or by attrition of those who make the attempt to last 7 years living in Detroit, but who don't survive their attempt. |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #8 Competition from Gitmo must be getting intense. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2013-05-31 11:00 |
| #7 #5, employees can do the same thing 'voters' do, have about two dozen or so listed at the same address. It's legit for voting right? And to even question it would be just another example of voter suppression and racist. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-05-31 10:04 |
| #6 "In seven years a lot of things can change. And I'm hopeful in seven years we'll see the city change and people will want to come back to the city," he said. "Hope"... is not a plan. Neither are residency requirements. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-05-31 09:38 |
| #5 15 years ago I lived a 1 mile outside of the Pittsburgh city limits. Apparantly Pittsburgh use to (or may still have) a similar rule. Of course the city fireman down the street from me in the suburbs owned an inexpensive home in the city (just did not actually live there). It was a $12,500 free standing PO Box. |
| Posted by: airandee 2013-05-31 09:11 |
| #4 That will certainly attract the best and brightest. /sarc off. Can we count Windsor as part of Detroit? Since cars manufactured in Windsor are considered 'domestic' for classification purposes by the Feds (per union input). |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-05-31 08:31 |
| #3 Work where you live and you pickup the rhythms. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2013-05-31 01:31 |
| #2 New York city has done something similar for at least the last 20 years. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2013-05-31 00:38 |
| #1 How can you force people to live where you want them? Why would anyone want to live in |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2013-05-31 00:19 |