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. But ...

Detroit — Mayor Mike Duggan deployed "board-up brigades" five years ago to secure the city's vacant houses, but the plywood has since been removed from thousands of the dwellings, providing ...

Vincent Orr bought his first abandoned house from the Detroit Land Bank Authority in 2017 and a second in 2019.

DETROIT, MI -- A man and woman in a black car drive slowly up and down blighted Mapleridge Street in northeast Detroit Wednesday morning. "Unbelievable," the man is heard saying through the open ...

Detroit has had its woes economically the past decade and many abandoned homes are simply getting knocked down. The city had 70,000 vacant buildings in 2012, according to the New York Times.

Photographer Kevin Bauman discusses his project, 100 Abandoned Houses, and why he decided to take pictures of Detroit's abandoned homes.

Other efforts aimed at reducing Detroit's abandoned housing problem included a 2012 effort to offer homes that didn't sell at auction for $500. Even squatters were eligible to buy.

Kevin BaumanScreenshot from 100 abandoned houses. Order prints here. Kevin Bauman began photographing houses in Detroit's largely abandoned Brush Park neighborhood in the late '90s. But when the ...

A grassroots organization plans to give away abandoned houses to writers who agree to move to the bankrupt city and boost its arts community and economy. So far, it's not costing the city a dime.

Detroit is edging dangerously close to bankruptcy, and the most obvious sign of its dramatic financial downfall lies in the ramshackle, abandoned homes that dot its neighborhoods. Michigan Gov ...

Detroit Launches eBay-Like Site for Buying Abandoned Homes Users can start their home purchase with the click of a mouse.