The City of Gary is demolishing several old and abandoned buildings. Crews have been working to take down 24 abandoned homes ...
Tearing down abandoned homes has proven benefits, such as reducing crime and toxic materials, but it doesn’t pay for itself.
A study that two of us published in 2017 answered this question in the affirmative: Tearing down an abandoned building in Detroit ... and Gary, Indiana, have experienced population declines ...
(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.
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) In the nearly 75 years since then, it has lost over 60% of its population ...