Demolition department proposes $10 million budget increase
Detroit's demolition department is seeking to double its budget for the next fiscal year to address blight.
Source: freep.com
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Detroit's demolition department is seeking to double its budget for the next fiscal year to address blight.
The figures mark a turning point in a city that had "somewhere north of 40,000" dilapidated homes to demolish as of 2014, said Tammy Daniels, the land bank's CEO.
"I have grandkids growing up here in the neighborhood it," Garza said. "It would be wonderful if they don’t have to see such destruction, such sadness. Glass where they can’t just walk through. It would be nice for everything to be clean."