Summer 2019
In Detroit, Empty Lots Become Parks, Helping to Rebuild Lost Social Equity
June 27th, 2019
Stephanie Harbin has lived in the Detroit neighborhood of Fitzgerald since 1969 and is president of the San Juan Drive block club. When she was a child, she remembers, there were 75 houses packed onto an extraordinarily long block of San Juan. And in a story that’s been repeated across many sections of Detroit, only 42 homes remain.
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