> I don't know this for sure but it seems a useful way to go on each
> day, looking for signs of change, looking for green shoots.
Actually, I think the discovery that people are moving *to* Detroit to
move into decrepit but recoverable houses and make art is an
encouraging development.
It's hard, though, to project more than limited and local positive
consequences. I've recently read that banks are intiating lots of
foreclosures, resulting in abandonment by the (putatitive) owners, but
then not completing the final court proceding. The result is that the
banks don't actually take posession and the owners are long gone so
the properties are in limbo but they don't show as liabilities on the
banks' balance sheets. If energetic and creative squatters refurbish
a neighborhood, will the banks then hustle the properties through the
courts and demand compensation from the new occupants?
--
Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
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