Knocking down abandoned buildings has a lot of benefits for Detroit − but it’s costly for cities
Tearing down abandoned homes has proven benefits, such as reducing crime and toxic materials, but it doesn’t pay for itself.
Detroit News19d
20 years after closing, a Flint-area high school is getting a second chance
A years-long effort to reopen a Flint-area high school that was shuttered ... raising money to reopen the high school, which was left abandoned, but secured, for the past two decades.
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Knocking down abandoned buildings has a lot of benefits for Detroit − but it’s costly for cities
Rehabilitating abandoned and neglected properties ... due to resource constraints and the fact that other Michigan cities such as Flint have also struggled with declines in population.
Opinion
In Michigan politics, pigs get fed, hogs get charged with public corruption
When former Michigan Speaker of the House Lee Chatfield went to court on public corruption charges, he put the blame on everyone else ...