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Molotov cocktails thrown into the dawson house killed everyone at home. the event became known as the dawson tragedy and it changed the neighborhood. >> it may have made some people go farther and farther into their homes because you're afraid. you're afraid if you say something to the police or to someone about what's going on in the neighborhood, that something will happen to you. and that's what's probably caused the vacancies and things like that, because people were afraid. they saw what was going on but they say they don't want to get involved. >> reporter: rows of boarded-up abandoned h...

Organization has made a commitment to baltimore, bringing together $26 million in public funding for a program known as vacants to value. sawn is the president of trftp, a non-profit housing development group working with vacants to values. >> we've taken houses where trees are growing out of, entired floors have collapsed. what we've said is these are great houses regardless of their existing condition. >> reporter: through the city run program, entire neighborhoods are being transformed. >> when you live next to a vacant home for 30, 40 years, change isn't a bad thing. change is the hope for...

Programs. there is an intellectual coherence in catholic thinking that does not exist in american politics. >> unfortunately, we have to leave it there. you've been been a highly disruptive presence! i mean it in only the best way. catch karen finney's new show "disrupt" etch and every weekend at 4:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. karen, thanks as always for joining us. coming up -- a byproduct of economic downturn and urban decay. tens of thousands of abandoned and vacant homes. skeletons left behind in once vibrant cities. we will discuss baltimore's plan to bring back charm city just ahead.

This afternoon to discuss comprehensive immigration reform. we will bring you more details as we get them. coming you up -- while cities around the country confront urban blight, baltimore is working on a strategy for u its vacant homes. that's next on "now." we've been bringing people together. today, we'd like people to come together on something that concerns all of us. obesity. and as the nation's leading beverage company, we can play an important role. that includes continually providing more options. giving people easy ways to help make informed choices. and offering portion controlled v...

Demolishing 4,000 homes in the next ten years. inevitably there are some who don't want to leave. >> we have a few areas where we have homeowners that are like that but we have to be patient and work with them. you can't expect someone to get up and move if they don't see what's coming. we have to show and prove that more's coming, that better is coming. >> reporter: a critical component of vacants to value is earning community support. >> you're always going to have someone -- you're never going to have 100% of anything. what the churches are helping us do is create sort of enough civic engag...