2 States Ask Obama for Help With Vacant Home Crisis
Buying a HomeSixteen Ohio and Michigan lawmakers have written President Barack Obama a letter, urging federal intervention in handling the swell of abandoned, vacant homes that are battering home prices in the states. The bipartisan group of lawmakers are concerned that the vacant homes will attract crime and further deteriorate neighborhoods. In the letter to Obama, the lawmakers said their local governments need “federal support to demolish the decaying properties on a large scale,” the Associated Press reports. In Ohio, state officials […]
