• pivot_root@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Some are more permanently vacant because they’re in such a state of disrepair that they can’t be lived in.

    Gee, I wonder who’s responsibility it was to make sure that didn’t happen. ¯\(ツ)

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      1 year ago

      The homeowners who let their house rot because they couldn’t afford to fix it or they just didn’t care? There’s been so many foreclosures that were blights on the neighborhood until investors bought them, fixed them up, and rented them to families who wanted a nice place to live.