Didn’t baltimore do this in the early 1980s? I wonder these are the same houses renovated and then trashed again.
I took the AMTRACK from D.C. to NYC last week, something I had not done for five years. The train passes through the worst parts of Baltimore, with block after block of abandoned row houses, all boarded up and in horrible condition on either side of the track. This time, however, I was surprised at how many of them had been renovated and were now in very good shape. There were still lots of them which had not changed, but to see a significant number that had been reclaimed made me wonder if it was just speculators, or if this was the result of one of those $1 sale programs.
Yeah this is nothing new. I’ve heard about this Urban homesteading idea decades ago.
Some cities have seen gentrification and redevelopment of rundown neighborhoods.
It sounds like a great idea, that you can buy a house for $1.
But if the house is in a dangerous area, and you are required to actually live there, see how many will do this.