Baltimore, in it's serious urban renewal phase, had a plan in a few neighborhoods where you could buy a house for a dollar, just so they could get people into vacant homes and try to fix some of those areas up.
Sounds like that might be next for Detroit.
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"Final thought: I just rented Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine. Frankly, it was the worst sports movie I've ever seen."
--Peter Schmuck, The (Baltimore) Sun
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