Dad experiences urban-suburb shift

From Nine Shifter Suzanne Kart in Bay City, Michigan, a conversation with her father who lives in a Detroit suburb:

"My dad is part Slovak and his family always belonged to the “Slovak Hall” in Detroit. My dad heard they were renovating the hall (it’s near downtown Detroit) and went down to check it out. He said something interesting happened in the neighborhood around there. It had been deteriorated and really poor people lived there. However, my dad said they tore down all the houses and put up new ones (in proximity to downtown Detroit). I asked him where all the poor people went and he said they came to Dearborn (which is a suburb where my folks live). You see, on my folks’ street a bunch of houses have been sold to a landlord who rents them out as low income housing.  The houses are all about 1000 square feet and up until recently were typically owner occupied. The people in the neighborhood tended to be middle class, like teachers, nurses, people who work at “Fords.” Interestingly, my father has not read the Nine Shift, does not know the theory about urban neighborhoods getting more dense, he just noticed it on his own."