 a little money will not go a long way in detroit detroit is getting a little spending cash  midtown detroit s three anchor employers the state and a detroitbased foundation are funding 12 million in incentives to encourage employees of the three anchor employers to live in the area now the state of michigan is contributing some but not all of the money the incentives should help bring in population to detroit a least a little bit and the fact that it s not all of our money being dumped into the toilet which is what is going happen is better than all of it being our money but why what s the point to bring in a few hundred people maybe detroit is a wasteland and it will not get any better any time soon so a few teeny tiny tax incentives are not going to get the job done maybe those young up and coming residents can be edgy and say that they live in detroit not the suburbs oh how their friends will be impressed henry payne mentioned in an unrelated blog post that 85 of detroit s family have no father in the home yes 85 so those tax incentives for young middle class workers will do nothing for detroit s biggest problem a complete breakdown of moral values more wasted money in the d  