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The Shrinking City

Detroit intends to take advantage of warm weather and new federal funding to demolish some 3,000 buildings by the end of September in order to “right size” the city.
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“Detroit is finally chipping away at a glut of abandoned homes that has been piling up for decades, and intends to take advantage of warm weather and new federal funding to demolish some 3,000 buildings by the end of September. … When it’s all over, said Karla Henderson, director of the Detroit Building Department, ‘There’s going to be a lot of empty space.'”

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