City of Detroit Files for Bankruptcy
Inside the abandoned and decaying manufacturing plant of Packard Motor Car in Detroit, Michigan.
(L-R) Ghana President John Dramani Mahama, Ghana Finance Minister Seth Terkper, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Dana Hyde, CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), participate in the Ghana Compact Signing Ceremony at the State Department, Washington, DC, Aug. 5, 2014.
Vacant and blighted homes in an eastside neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan.
Carla Lyons holds her bidders card as nearly 9,000 foreclosed Detroit area properties are being auctioned off at the International Center Building in Detroit. Picture taken October 19, 2009.
The inside of the abandoned "Martyrs of Uganda Catholic Church in Detroit. When a Catholic church closes, the land and buildings go back to the archdiocese. If a new tenant doesn't materialize, criminals sometimes do.
Tony Majka uses his iPhone to photograph inside an abandoned home in Detroit. Under the name "Tony Detroit," he's been taking photos of the city's many abandoned structures with an iPhone and posting them on Instagram. The simple shots of Detroit's desolation has earned him better than 300,000 followers.
June, 1983: An employee works on the assembly line at the Cadillac carmaker plant in Detroit.
The abandoned Packard Motor Car Company building that ceased production in the 1950's.
Graffiti in downtown Detroit.
A crushed vehicle at U.S. Auto Supply in Detroit.
People look for clothes at the Capuchin Soup Kitchen service center in Detroit, where hundreds of people receive food and supplies every day.
Christopher Dodd (L), chairman of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee and Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) listen to testimony from the leaders of the big Detroit automakers during hearing on a financial assistance package in Washington, December 2008.
Abandoned brick homes on the east side of Detroit.
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing (left) speaks at a news conference, July 18, 2013. State-appointed emergency manager Kevyn Orr is on the right.