Currently there are a huge quantity of abandoned houses blighting Flynt and Detroit. Entire blocks with houses literally falling down. It would cost more money to make them habitable than to raze them. The owners have been foreclosed on – the banks don’t want to invest in razing them… so they’ve abandoned them as well. These houses are stripped of plumbing and anything of value – they are NOT safe.
It’s all well and good to say let homeless vets live in them – but that isn’t very compassionate either since they’re not safe.
