Actually...since the property’s are worth zero...and not really taxable or worth keeping...I’d recommend the city set up seizing the property (legally of course)...give up on recovery for various neighborhoods...pay some guys to burn down the houses...bulldoze the areas...and plant around a dozen trees per acre.
Face it...recovery will not happen in Flint...and just letting the houses stand...is like showing off some war-zone. It has nothing positive for the town...even in terms of tax revenue.
Flint stands proudly as a monument to the failures of liberalism. It has a duty to stand tall for all time.