100 Abandoned Homes Project - Detroit

Amazing pics at the link

Images of a crisis: Detroit's abandoned homes tell the story

For those of us fretting about our home's depleted value, how we're going to pay next month's mortgage or whether it's the right time to sell, it is worth pausing to look at a set of photographs out of Detroit depicting some of the hundreds of homes that owners have been forced to abandon there. These poignant images remind us that at least we have a home to fret about.


www.100abandonedhouses.com

One of the hundreds of abandoned homes in Detroit.
Photographer Kevin Bauman has been capturing pictures of Detroit's neglected homes since the 1990s. He has witnessed whole neighborhoods with barely any inhabitants. "In these neighborhoods I encountered concerned citizens, packs of wild dogs, 20 foot high piles of toilets, and houses with the facades torn off, filled with garbage," he writes on his website.


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can't believe that we could leave our cities to die. Detroit (and NOLA) are two good examples of this, but it's happening elsewhere too.

Many of these were such beautiful houses. So upsetting to see the dereliction of someone's former pride and joy.

But some the only way to start a renovation is with gas and a lighter.

what set midwestern cities (cincinnati, cleveland, st. louis) on this path? WHITE FLIGHT.

for only 200K. I see these homes on the cable reality shows like House Hunters.

Locatio, location, location

there are 900 homes listed for $1000 or less. You can get an entire city block for about what you'd pay for a car.

It's weird to think of real estate as something with inherent value, when in some areas real estate has become valueless.

people coming together to renovate housing for those who can't afford it.

That is one of the reasons for HOMELESSNESS!

Some of these areas are virtual war zones.

there's no way to keep a home without the above, unless you have a pile of money.

:nuke:

it's sad that we've shipped out all of those jobs.

i see many of those houses and imagine that it would be a dream home for myself or almost anyone i know.

low prices on manufactured goods isn't worth the price we are paying.