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UER Forum > Archived US: Great Lakes > Detroit to demolish 3000 abandoned structures (Viewed 692 times)
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Detroit to demolish 3000 abandoned structures
< on 2/28/2010 11:23 PM >
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Detroit to demolish upward of 3,000 houses in 2010
2/22/2010, 1:22 p.m. EST
COREY WILLIAMS
The Associated Press

(AP) — DETROIT - About a third of Detroit's estimated 10,000 vacant homes that need to be demolished are slated to be torn down this year as the city attacks blight in its neighborhoods.

The only thing preventing more demolitions is lack of funding.

Of Detroit's $47-million share of federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program funds, about $14 million has been earmarked for such demolitions, building officials told a City Council committee Monday.

Detroit is facing a budget deficit estimated at more than $300 million and no general fund dollars are planned for demolitions.

Between 2,500 and 3,000 houses are on the list to be razed. It costs upward of $10,000 to tear down each single-family home, and all the federal stimulus funding for demolitions is expected to be exhausted this year.

"We are not going to get 10,000 structures down this year," said Charles Beckham, group executive in charge of operations for Mayor Dave Bing.

Detroit now has a count of how many homes are standing vacant and the conditions the structures are in following the weekend release of a block-by-block analysis of about 343,849 residential parcels.

The survey was conducted in August and September. It found 219,511 occupied homes and 33,529 vacant houses. The city hopes to use the study to help with neighborhood revitalization.

Detroit has been fighting blight and the growing number of abandoned houses for about four decades as its population continues to drop. Houses left empty become targets for scrap metal hunters, other vandals and arsonists.

The city also wants to pass the cost of demolition along to property owners, then use that money to tear down more houses, Buildings and Safety Engineering director Karla Henderson told the council.

Detroit can "back-collect" for the last six years and will use collection agencies, if necessary, she said.

"From this point forward, when we go in to demolish a building we'll start sending invoices," Henderson said.
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Re: Detroit to demolish 3000 abandoned structures
<Reply # 1 on 3/1/2010 1:58 AM >
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I wonder if that cost includes cleanup

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Re: Detroit to demolish 3000 abandoned structures
<Reply # 2 on 3/1/2010 5:08 PM >
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Posted by shotgun mario
I wonder if that cost includes cleanup


I'm guessing they've thought of that... still... 3,000 houses that used to be people's homes.

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Re: Detroit to demolish 3000 abandoned structures
<Reply # 3 on 3/19/2010 6:45 PM >
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Detroit is an oddity in that it's "greening" from the center outward. Whole cleared blocks are reverting to grassland.

There is a great website called Sweet Juniper http://www.sweet-juniper.com/ The guy who runs it (and documents the decay of Detroit) heard that there was a street where 60 of 66 houses were abandoned.

Below is a link to a stitched-together photo of each and every one of the houses on the street.

What creeped me out was the faded FOR SALE signs. No one is ever going to buy those homes. People literally had to walk away from a major investment.


http://farm4.stati...1_daedab3e47_o.jpg

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Re: Detroit to demolish 3000 abandoned structures
<Reply # 4 on 3/19/2010 6:53 PM >
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Re: Detroit to demolish 3000 abandoned structures
<Reply # 5 on 3/19/2010 6:58 PM >
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damn. this was bound to happen. betw. the lack of jobs and the murder rate, detroit will eventually shrink back to a pre-henry ford population.

i think i need to plan a summer road trip.

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Re: Detroit to demolish 3000 abandoned structures
<Reply # 6 on 3/20/2010 7:23 AM >
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Meh, it's Detroit don't expect much to come from this. Mayor Bing will pocket half of the funds & the rest will disappear! I remember in the 1980s when a certain mayor said that casinos were going to renew the city, we know how that worked out.

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Re: Detroit to demolish 3000 abandoned structures
<Reply # 7 on 3/21/2010 4:22 AM >
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Posted by guymontag
Detroit is an oddity in that it's "greening" from the center outward. Whole cleared blocks are reverting to grassland.

There is a great website called Sweet Juniper http://www.sweet-juniper.com/ The guy who runs it (and documents the decay of Detroit) heard that there was a street where 60 of 66 houses were abandoned.

Below is a link to a stitched-together photo of each and every one of the houses on the street.

What creeped me out was the faded FOR SALE signs. No one is ever going to buy those homes. People literally had to walk away from a major investment.


http://farm4.stati...1_daedab3e47_o.jpg


awesome - thanks for the links!

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Re: Detroit to demolish 3000 abandoned structures
<Reply # 8 on 6/10/2010 4:39 PM >
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I believe they proposed something like this last year as well. There was a big article in one of the papers about all the abandoned buildings in detroit and what detroit should do with them. They may be pretending to be proactive. The chances of them actually doing this is very slim. I've lived in the detroit area all of my life and the abandoned houses and buildings have always been there and most likely always will be. It makes Detroit a nice playground for all the explorers.

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