In Detroit, it takes a block to save a neighborhood
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It’s the kind of place where you brag about hosting a block party in which no one was assaulted.
It’s the kind of place where you brag about hosting a block party in which no one was assaulted.
Once selling for six figures, the houses are on the auction block for as low as a few thousand dollars.
All together, the mayor’s three-year-old Detroit Works Project, which was designed to attract thousands of residents into revitalized neighborhoods over the next decade, has summoned only about a dozen new residents to areas that are far from revitalized.