Driving on I75 a person can see a lot of potential fixer uppers in neighborhoods I wouldn’t live in unless I was was sharing the area with no less than 20 similar minded, well armed families. Shame. Some of the houses and buildings must have looked really nice about 40-50 years ago.
Clear out the vagrants, druggies, etc. Strip the abandoned houses of anything useful (I know copper wiring and pipes will likely have been stripped out, and tear them down. Fill the plots with grass or gravel. Less to fall to arson on Devil’s Night, and less places for scum to inhabit.
And that course of action has been what Detroits been doing for a while. Its stunning to see some of the large areas that have been returned to vacant lots. It blew me away when I saw it.
Maybe you’re on to something. “Group buy” neighborhoods and the city gives those owners wide latitude in rehabilitating the neighborhood.
Hmm...