• BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    That’s what I was thinking, too. The article says 116 houses per homeless person in Detroit. Has this person ever been to Detroit? Vacant houses there aren’t even safe to look at.

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      3 hours ago

      I’m from a rural area in New York, and it’s similar. My brother considered house flipping because some were so cheap you could do it by credit card. However they tended to be abandoned for years, not really salvageable, plus the population was dwindling so not much hope for a sale, ever