Detroit fights blight by selling off vacant homes

Monday, June 16, 2014

DETROIT -- Anthony Brown keeps his home of 36 years in good shape, but it is an island of tranquillity in a sea of blight in Detroit's Marygrove neighborhood. There is a vacant house next door, another across the street and still others farther down Wisconsin Street.

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