The Debate on Demolition
Back about two years ago Mayor Duggan celebrated the 1,000 house demolition under his administration. This incident caused various people who have studied the phenomenon to weigh in on it. Some say that demolition is good, others claim that areas of the city that are seeing demolitions now have more empty housing than before the demolitions began. So what should we think of demolition. First off, the fact of the matters is that neighbors are almost always in favor of demolition. When I was was a group walking to determine how to make a neighborhood workable with project safewalk, we were told by neighbors which house to take down. Others have written of the demolition crew being confronted by multiple requests as they come to take down one house and outrage at what houses are not going down. I have even seen neirghborhoods stage marches to have more abandoned buildings destroyed. So clearly demolition needs to take place. At the same time I have seen multiple rotted out, sides fall