The number of vacant buildings in some American cities has reached “epidemic levels”, according to a new study by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Squatters dash Detroit’s housing clean-up hopes
February 2, 2015 by
To stabilize its housing market, Detroit city officials are on a mission to clear tens of thousands of abandoned, dilapidated houses – remnants of the foreclosure crisis – throughout its city, but squatters are preventing them from bulldozing the homes. photo credit: ellenm1 via photopin cc Detroit does not allow occupied properties to be demolished.
