African Americans- Michigan- Detroit- Social conditions- 21st century. Working class white people- Michigan- Detroit- Biography. Community development- Michigan- Detroit. Urban renewal- Michigan- Detroit- Citizen participation. Dwellings- Remodeling- Michigan- Detroit. A year later, he saves up and buys a ramshackle house for 500 in the east side neighborhood known as Poletown and moves in. Subject headings Philp, Drew- Homes and haunts- Michigan- Detroit. Arriving with no job, no friends, and no money, Philp is navely determined to fix the huge, broken city with his own hands and on his own terms. In his book A 500 House in Detroit, he recounted his experience restoring the house and some of the biggest. "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. Recent college graduate Drew Philp bought a house in Detroit for 500. Rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city TitleĪ $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city / Drew Philp.
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