So what happens to all the unused housing when residents move from a city?

[miri]

What happens to all that unused housing?

600,000+ residents no longer living in the city?

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: miri
What happens to all that unused housing?

600,000+ residents no longer living in the city?

My guess is that some of it got demolished.

 

[lozina]

they turn into drug dens, whore houses, gang hideouts

 

[Vette73]

CRACK HOUSE PARTY YOOOOO!!!!!

 

[IceBergSLiM]

they can be rezoned. don't your remember sim city 2000?

 

[Queasy]

They keep voting.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

I think it was in Cleveland that the largest residential property owner is now some German bank, due to mortgage defaults. They are not maintaining the houses or even checking on them though, and they are being vandalized, scavenged for copper pipe, et cetera. They said the city of Cleveland is now suing the bank for owning "nuisance properties."

I think this was on The Wall Street Journal This Morning, if I recall correctly.

 

[miri]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
they can be rezoned. don't your remember sim city 2000?

thats a lot of rezoning, like 31% of the residential housing.

 

[Pepsi90919]

see: detroit, buffalo

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: lozina
they turn into drug dens, whore houses, gang hideouts

You haven't been to Philly have you?

They already were...