Abandoned Houses of Detroit
Detroit's population has fallen steadily since the heyday of
the auto industry in the 1950s, when it peaked around two million, to
just a little over 700,000 in 2010. Disappearing jobs and burgeoning
mortgage has driven even stable, middle-class families to the suburbs
leaving thousands and thousands of homes and properties behind.
According the Census Bureau, the number of vacant housing units doubled
in the past decade to nearly 80,000, more than one-fifth of the city's
housing stock. Even though the city has been demolishing about 1,000
broken-down houses a year, they can’t keep up with the rate at which
families are abandoning them.
Photographer Kevin Bauman through
his project 100 Abandoned Houses brings attention to the problem of
vacant properties in Detroit.
Below is a collection of some of the most beautiful abandoned homes of Detroit.
