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Mitt Romney's Childhood Home to Be Razed

URBAN RENEWAL

House abandoned in Detroit.

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Plagued by a glut of abandoned homes, Detroit is looking to demolish some 3,000 buildings by the end of September. Among them: Mitt Romney's childhood home at 1860 Balmoral Drive, a 5,000 square foot house in an upscale neighborhood. According to the Wall Street Journal, the house's demolition is a symbolic part of a new push to deal with Detroit's longtime blight issues—the city hosts roughly 90,000 abandoned or vacant homes and residential lots by one nonprofit's count.

Read it at The Wall Street Journal