Tearing down abandoned homes has proven benefits, such as reducing crime and toxic materials, but it doesn’t pay for itself.

Rehabilitating abandoned and neglected properties ... from Detroit may be helpful to policymakers in other places. Many leaders in Detroit did not imagine that the population would decline over ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) It was one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation between 1900 and 1950.

Charles Ommanney via Getty Images Rehabilitating abandoned and neglected properties ... may be helpful to policymakers in other places. Many leaders in Detroit did not imagine that the population ...