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  2. Where Cities Are Practically Giving Away Abandoned Homes - AOL

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    Where $1 Buys an Abandoned Home U.S. Cities With the Most Abandoned Homes Newest Squatters in Empty Homes: Rats and Coyotes More on AOL Real Estate: Find out how to calculate mortgage payments ...

  3. Abandoned properties find new life as affordable homes in ...

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    Jul. 15—ROCHESTER — Olmsted County has been foraging a new path to create affordable homes from rundown and abandoned properties during the past five years. Rather than auctioning off tax ...

  4. Free land? How about a free house? Kansas town tries a ... - AOL

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    Free land, costly homes. The idea stretches back to the Homestead Act of 1862: Spur economic growth in rural America by giving away free land to those who will make good use of it.

  5. Vacants to Value - Wikipedia

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    Vacants to Value is a Baltimore initiative enacted in 2010 by former Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to incentivize purchases of abandoned homes in the city. The program offers financial incentives to purchase derelict properties and renovate them.

  6. Municipal disinvestment - Wikipedia

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    Out of the New Deal came the Public Works Administration, funding the construction of thousands of low-rent homes and infrastructure development.Meanwhile the Homeowners Refinancing Act, as well as the Wagner-Steagall Housing Act three years later, provided generous incentives and reimbursements aimed at Americans recovering from the Great Depression who could not yet afford to invest in equity.

  7. Detroit Demolition Program - Wikipedia

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    The first home demolitions in Detroit occurred in January 2014, and as of April 2019, the program is still in effect. In this time over 17,000 [7] properties have been torn down. [8] Another 2,800 demolitions have already been contracted and will occur within the next 12 months. The city hopes to reach 40,000 demolitions over the next eight years.

  8. 7 places giving away land or money to move there - AOL

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    Maenza, Italy Italy's $1 home bonanza started in the village of Gangi in 2011, according to the LA Times. With 5,800 towns with fewer than 5,000 residents — 2,300 of which are totally abandoned ...

  9. FixMyStreet.com - Wikipedia

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    A version of the site for reporting abandoned empty homes, in conjunction with the Empty Homes Agency, Shelter Cymru and the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership, was launched in late 2008, and was called "a model of easy use" by the Guardian [15] This site was repurposed for the Channel 4 TV series The Great British Property Scandal in December ...