Yesterday I attended a session entitled “The Challenge of the Black Ghetto” ^[1]where Alexander Polikoff, author of “Waiting for Gautreaux: A Story of Segregation, Housing and the Black Ghetto”, spoke at the Richard C. Van Dusen Forum on Urban Issues at Wayne State University’s McGregor Memorial Conference Center. The session was well attended and began with an overview of Detroit’s racial, socioeconomic, and historical context. Polikoff spoke of the Gautreaux project in Chicago where approximately 8000 families over 20 years were taken out of the Ghetto and given the chance to prosper in more affluent suburbs. Polikoff calls for the Universities in Detroit to begin a dialogue and research into whether or not such a system would be feasible here in Detroit. Polikoff made a point that society accepts Ghettos as a permanent fixture in our cityscape. It can and has to change.