Urban and Small-Town Reconquista

Reclaiming lost areas to build new polities

The first time I heard that houses in crumbling Detroit were being sold for crazy-low amounts like $5,000, I thought to myself—Now there’s an opportunity. It would be risky to buy one such house oneself and then try to fend off crime alone in a post-urban waste, but if a group of people bought up an area and made a new community, it could work.

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