It’s a pity that abandoned houses tend to degrade over time (as reported by The Detroit News). Otherwise, I’d suggest the government of Michigan, as the responsible party, buy all the foreclosed, abandoned properties in the Detroit metro area and give them to the residents of Flint. Everyone moves, and Flint becomes a ghost town, a monument to mismanagement by the Snyder administration.
So far, I have not heard the base cause of mistaken decision making. I’m speculating someone didn’t want to spend the money, which would be attributable to the intrusion of private sector thinking into the public sector – but that awaits the discernment of facts.
[Updated to add a missing word – 7/30/16]
