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Published Caption: Rehabbing a Detroit home before resale.

Published Caption: Rehabbing a Detroit home before resale.

Published Caption: Rehabbing a Detroit home before resale.

Published Caption: The land bank has demolished more than 8,800 houses and sold 1,500 of the newly vacant lots to neighbors.

An abandoned house in Detroit being demolished.

Published Caption: The land bank has demolished more than 8,800 houses and sold 1,500 of the newly vacant lots to neighbors.

An abandoned house in Detroit being demolished.

An abandoned house in Detroit being demolished.

Published Caption: Published Caption: Clement Wright's home before the renovations began. A vacant room which has since been transformed into the li...

Published Caption: Clement Wright's home before the renovations began. A vacant room [pictured] which has since been transformed into the living room...

Published Caption: In 2014, the Detroit Blight Removal Task Force counted 40,000 blighted homes in the city and 38,000 more approaching blighted.

Clement Wright bought his house from the Detroit Land Bank Authority. Published Caption: The kitchen and adjacent living room, two of Wright's favor...

Published Caption: In 2014, the Detroit Blight Removal Task Force counted 40,000 blighted homes in the city and 38,000 more approaching blighted.

Abandoned home, property of the Detroit Land Bank Authority.

Published Caption: In 2014, the Detroit Blight Removal Task Force counted 40,000 blighted homes in the city and 38,000 more approaching blighted.

Published Caption: From left to right: Rebecca Camargo, Carrie-Lewand Monroe and Irene Tucker. Carrie Lewand-Monroe was the former executive director...

Published Caption: Damon and Ashley Dickerson bought their 1910 home for $45,400. Unlike many of the land bank's clientele, the Dickersons are new to...

Published Caption: The Dickersons, both architects, hired contractors to carry out the renovations for their 2,800-square foot home--many of which ar...

Published Caption: Damon and Ashley Dickerson in their 1910 colonial home near the Detroit River, purchased through the land bank.

Published Caption: Detroit resident Clement Wright bought his house from the Detroit Land Bank Authority after it had been sitting vacant for seven y...

Published Caption: In 2014, the Detroit Blight Removal Task Force counted 40,000 blighted homes in the city and 38,000 more approaching blighted.

Published Caption: Detroit's population has declined to a third of its peak population of 1.8 million in 1950.

Published Caption: Frank Polk and his wife Timiko in their Detroit home.

Published Caption: The Polks were interested in maintaining as much of the original 1930s detailing as possible, including the stained glass windows,...

Frank Polk and his wife Timiko. Published Caption: There a few final tasks, including basement floor refinishing and drywalling.

Published Caption: Firefighter, Frank Polk, 47, and his wife Tamiko, 43, bought their home in 2016, and restored with the help of PBS's "This Old Hou...

Monument to Joe Louis, also known as "The Fist," in downtown Detroit. Published Caption: Detroit's population has declined to a third of its peak po...

Published Caption: Melvin Sanford, 48, bought his house from the land bank in 2016.

Melvin Sanford bought his house from the Detroit Land Bank Authority. Published Caption: The home's exterior.

Published Caption: The exterior of the Polks' home (center) in the Russell Woods neighborhood of Detroit.

Published Caption: Scott Benson is a Detroit city councilman and a supporter of the land bank.

Scott Benson, a Detroit city councilman and a supporter of the land bank.

Scott Benson, a Detroit city councilman and a supporter of the land bank.

Published Caption: Bryan Ferguson, president of the Schoolcraft Improvement Association, had tried for years to get the city to demolish blighted hom...

Published Caption: Bryan Ferguson, president of the Schoolcraft Improvement Association, chats with the homeowner who bought the vacant lot next to h...

Lolita Haley, program manager of University Commons, in Detroit.

Published Caption: Lolita Haley is the program manager of University Commons, a business improvement group for that works on Livernois Avenue, She sa...

With 65,000 new streetlights in Detroit, it is the largest city in the U.S. lit entirely with LEDs.

Lolita Haley, program manager of University Commons, standing underneath LED streetlights she helped push to have installed in Detroit.

Lolita Haley, program manager of University Commons, standing underneath LED streetlights she helped push to have installed in Detroit.

Melvin Sanford bought his house from the Detroit Land Bank Authority. Published Caption: This is the 19th home Sanford has bought in his life, and h...

Published Caption: Detroit resident Melvin Sanford in the home he fixed up.

Livernois Avenue in Detroit.

A view of downtown Detroit. Published Caption: Detroit's population has declined to a third of its peak population of 1.8 million in 1950.