A Flashback

Hate and Violence over Duplex & RM Zoning

If you wish to take a historic single family home on Macomb Street and carve it up into four to seven low income apartments this is something you can do.  Some neighborhoods have resisted this most notable the neighbors on east third street where small single family homes are zoned RM.  It is a nice neighborhood that absentee landlords can easily trash.

One landlord has a favorite trick of buying homes from older couples on land contract promising long term income.  The owners never get a penny and the home is finally demolished after being condemned as unfit for human habitation with the taxes never paid by the landloard.  These homes are often converted into crack houses...  So sad.

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Reports December 14, 1999 incident

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