Vacant Land Auction In Detroit Called A Mistake

Is The Wayne County Foreclosure Auction A Mistake?
Two vacant homes are shown in Detroit, Wednesday, July 27, 2011. Detroits mayor unveiled a plan that could determine what the city looks like as it fights for vitality, announcing that neighborhoods will receive different kinds of services depending on the condition of homes, how many people live there and the level of blight. His plan isnt really about shrinking Detroit _ the 139-square-mile citys boundaries arent receding. He instead wants to encourage redistribution of whats left of Detroits population into areas where people still live, where houses arent about to cave in and where the citys scant resources wont be spread dangerously thin. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Two vacant homes are shown in Detroit, Wednesday, July 27, 2011. Detroits mayor unveiled a plan that could determine what the city looks like as it fights for vitality, announcing that neighborhoods will receive different kinds of services depending on the condition of homes, how many people live there and the level of blight. His plan isnt really about shrinking Detroit _ the 139-square-mile citys boundaries arent receding. He instead wants to encourage redistribution of whats left of Detroits population into areas where people still live, where houses arent about to cave in and where the citys scant resources wont be spread dangerously thin. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Planners working on a blueprint for future Detroit development say it's a mistake to keep auctioning off the city's abandoned and vacant property for pittances in back property taxes.

The purchasers are often speculators less interested in creating a unified vision for dealing with vacant Detroit land estimated to be the size of Paris, if assembled into one large plot.

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