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4:49 pm
Tue October 12, 2010

Flint to demolish more houses to fight blight

Abandoned house in Flint, MI
Credit Flickr user jamesharv2005 / Creative Commons
An abandoned house on Jane Street in Flint, Michigan.

More houses are coming down in Flint. Kristin Longley reports in the Flint Journal that 174 houses will come down by December 31st. That's on top of the 125 houses city crews are expected to take down by the end of the year.

Flint union leader Sam Muma says city crews can't take down all the homes scheduled for demolition:

"There's no way the crews I represent, the city employees, can handle all that. We have a situation quite unique in our time."

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