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Flint, Michigan: Home abandonment so bad they might shut down whole sections of city
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 639576:MV83NjA3NzBfMTE2ODUyNDlfOTYwRjU3MkE=] It's seems the US is up for sale for all takers. [quote:etherealgirl] I just saw another Michigan business ad on CNN!! But I'm in the UK... I see them on CNN Europe...and I am in Latvia! [/quote] [/quote]
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"Property abandonment is getting so bad in Flint that some in government are talking about an extreme measure that was once unthinkable -- shutting down portions of the city, officially abandoning them and cutting off police and fire service.
Temporary Mayor Michael Brown made the off-the-cuff suggestion Friday in response to a question at a Rotary Club of Flint luncheon about the thousands of empty houses in Flint.
Brown said that as more people abandon homes, eating away at the city's tax base and creating more blight, the city might need to examine "shutting down quadrants of the city where we (wouldn't) provide services."
He did not define what that could mean -- bulldozing abandoned areas, simply leaving the vacant homes to rot or some other idea entirely."
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