Tearing down abandoned homes has proven benefits, such as reducing crime and toxic materials, but it doesn’t pay for itself.

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.

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.