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2. These abandoned historic homes are on sale for as little as ...

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   These huge, abandoned historic homes date back to at least 1850 and are priced as low as $1,000. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Fixer-uppers are all the rage right now. While ...

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

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   The "One Dollar Healthy Homes" initiative sold vacant and abandoned homes or lots for $1 per parcel to the people with the best plan for the seriously blighted property that had been acquired by ...

4. Slum clearance in the United States - Wikipedia

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   e. Slum clearance in the United States has been used as an urban renewal strategy to regenerate derelict or run-down districts, often to be replaced with alternative developments or new housing. Early calls were made during the 19th century, although mass slum clearance did not occur until after World War II with the introduction of the Housing ...

5. Destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain - Wikipedia

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   In rural areas, the destruction of the country houses and their estates was tantamount to a social revolution. Well into the 20th century, it was common for the local squire to provide large-scale employment, housing, and patronage to the village school, parish church, and a cottage hospital. The "big house" was the bedrock of rural society.

6. Unfinished, abandoned houses at basement prices - AOL

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   These aren't foreclosures or short sales. That's so 2008 and 2009. These are half-built houses that could be yours on the cheap if you have the finishing touch. The housing bust has spawned ...

7. List of ghost towns in Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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   Pleasant Ridge [2] Grant. 42°49′52″N 90°48′47″W. c. 1850. 1959. Settled by formerly enslaved African Americans in the 1850s, Pleasant Ridge was home to over 100 people, approximately half of whom were African Americans, through the early 20th century. The last resident died in 1959.