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Author Takes Hand In Rebuilding Detroit

Rick Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37965809

Detroit might be the unofficial capital city of the "rust belt," battered by decades of deindustrialization and decay. 

That's why people can find real deals on real estate there.  Like Drew Philp, who got one really cheap and wrote about it in A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City

Renovating the house will eventually cost him a bit more than the original investment, but he's learned a lot about his adopted city and American society--and himself as well.  Drew Philp is our guest. 

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.