[seanmcdirmid]

Artist housing usually happens accidentally. Like some city overbuilds and suffers a real estate crash, or Detroit. It could also be a shutdown factory complex that doesn’t make for very good housing but works for artists (like 798 in Beijing)…until it becomes popular enough to gentrify and prices the artists out again.

[lukas099]

Is Detroit currently an artist city? It makes sense because of what you said, but I just haven't heard that before.

[seanmcdirmid]

You can definitely find articles on the web that think so, eg https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/9ke5p7/why-artists-are-movin...

Starving artists thrive anywhere that has cheap rent and some economy to survive with a day job.