Nov 10, 2020 · The site uses time-lapse sequences of images from roughly 2008 to today to illustrate the loss of Detroit homes to vacancy and demolition, sometimes to the shocking extent of almost an entire block disappearing in less than a decade.

Jun 6, 2014 · Eight neighborhoods in Detroit have been so ravaged by crime, foreclosures, fires and scrappers that more than a third of the homes and businesses are abandoned, according to recently released findings from an unprecedented survey of every Detroit parcel.

Jan 31, 2020 · But there’s still plenty of dormant buildings around town awaiting life. Here are the ones we’d most like to see redeveloped. We’ve tried to stick to plans that either haven’t been announced...

Jul 9, 2015 · Detroit — Detroit has had more homes foreclosed in the past 10 years than the total number of houses in several suburbs — or all of Buffalo, New York.

Jul 1, 2021 · I toured three abandoned homes that are up for auction through the Detroit Land Bank Authority. The three homes have fire damage, peeling paint, holes in the floors, and boarded-up windows.

Sep 20, 2013 · In 1950, the burgeoning industrial city was home to nearly two million Americans. But today, as Detroit’s population has dwindled to a mere 700,000, the only boom Detroit has seen rests in the number of abandoned buildings popping up within city limits.

Explore nine abandoned places in Detroit that reflect the city's historical significance and eerie atmosphere. Motor City is well known for its urban blight, and the numerous buildings in abandoned Detroit can make areas feel like a ghost town.

Jul 3, 2011 · Even though the city has been demolishing about 1,000 broken-down houses a year, they can’t keep up with the rate at which families are abandoning them. Photographer Kevin Bauman through his project 100 Abandoned Houses brings attention to the problem of vacant properties in Detroit.

Where once people lived in modest houses built close together, now there are wrecked houses and vacant lots. By the city's own count, Detroit has around 30,000 abandoned houses! The number of buildings that are vacant is even higher.

Jul 14, 2012 · Photographer Kevin Bauman’s 100 Abandoned Houses project started over a decade ago in the mid 90s. For him it was a way of exploring his hometown of Detroit. He found it amazing, depressing and perplexing that a once great city could find itself in such great distress.