Ebook: A $500 house in Detroit: rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
Author: Philp Drew
- Tags: African Americans--Michigan--Detroit--Social conditions--21st century, African Americans--Social conditions, Community development, Community development--Michigan--Detroit, Dwellings--Remodeling, Dwellings--Remodeling--Michigan--Detroit, Generation Y, Homes, Race relations, Subculture, Subculture--Michigan--Detroit, Urban renewal--Citizen participation, Urban renewal--Michigan--Detroit--Citizen participation, Working class whites, Working class whites--Michigan--Detroit, Biographies, Autobiographies, Electronic
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Scribner
- City: Detroit (Mich.);Michigan;Detroit
- Edition: Firest Scribner hardcover edition
- Language: English
- epub
Prologue: best bid -- Raw material -- Clapboard siding -- Someone else's trash -- Windows and doors and airplanes -- A fence between me and the world -- Load-bearing walls -- The furnace -- A chimney to the sky -- A knock on the door -- Progress gallops -- The years roll by -- Someone else's home.;"A young writer's sincere search (with his dog) for an authentic life--buying a ruined house in Detroit for $500, fixing it up nail by nail, and, in the process, participating in the grassroots rebirth of the city itself."--Provided by publisher.
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