Nearly a quarter of the homes in Detroit are empty. That’s more than 79,000 vacant homes, according to the last Census.
Of those, Mayor Dave Bing’s office considers 12,000 to be dangerous. They’re burned out, or falling apart. They attract squatters and drug dealers. So the city is paying contractors to demolish them.
But another group of people says some of these homes don’t have to be demolished. They can be taken apart board by board... and the materials can be salvaged.
The non-profit WARM Training Center is teaching deconstruction classes to residents of Detroit who are unemployed. They want to create a new industry in the city and put some people back to work.
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