Thank you FIIISH. Here is an article dated Feb 20, 2010 from Detroit Free Press titled "Survey finds third of Detroit lots vacant":
http://www.freep.com/article/2010022...ESS04/2200371/
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A little more than 35% of the city's 343,849 residential parcels are either vacant lots or abandoned shells of buildings
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And here is a map of Detroit showing where the empty houses are (dark blue is the highest vacancy rates):
http://www.freep.com/article/2010022...-of-the-survey
You can use Google Street View to see what it looks like in the dark blue areas of the map above, assuming the pictures are not too old of course. I spotted the big area east of City of Hamtramck:
http://maps.google.com/maps?layer=c&...,0.195179&z=13
http://maps.google.com/maps?layer=c&...,0.130291&z=14
and I also spotted the second area highlighted in the map (Conner neighborhood, 54% vacant houses, 48% houses in good or fair condition):
http://maps.google.com/maps?layer=c&...X9ikhyp1rpSgTg
If you want to read from the people who were or are occupying these houses, a few of them commented the 2 articles:
http://www.freep.com/comments/articl...it-lots-vacant
http://www.freep.com/comments/articl...-of-the-survey
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Lamar313 wrote:
I live in the 48205 area. Yes, the article is correct. You can't really tell if you are driving in Baghdad or in Detroit. Forgive me, I might be insulting Baghdad.
I left Detroit after graduating from high school to live in Chicago, but returned 7 years later only because my father became ill. My father is a simple person and doesn't need much luxury. He doesn't mind the two abandon houses on each side of his house, the basketball court in front of his curb, the underage minors roaming middle of the night, or stray dogs. The only thing irritates him is the summer block party the young people are having every nights. The loud music blasting into the morning causes him not to have a goodnight sleep. As for the police, I am not even sure who is the real sheriff in town anymore.
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All this data comes from Detroit Residetial Parcel Survey:
http://www.detroitparcelsurvey.org/