There’s No Place Like An Abandoned Home, Part 1
(I decided to take a look at the abandoned home issue this week. After doing some research I decided it was going to be more than just one blog post. So I will be writing about this for the next several days on both blogs.)
Today begins the first of a multi-part series of interviews on the issue of abandoned housing in Indianapolis. The city has plans to use money from transfer of the water and wastewater company to tear down more than 2,000 abandoned properties this year. That plan has caused some residents to get upset because they think it is too aggressive and instead of tearing down some of the homes Indianapolis should attempt to either rehab them or sell them to someone who will.
We begin this series with an interview with Reggie Walton of the Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development. His job is to oversee the demolition of the city’s worst abandoned properties.
You can hear the interview here.
Tomorrow, you will hear from Tiffany Benedict Berkson of Historic Indianapolis who says she has serious problems with the way the city is tearing down the abandoned properties.
