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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ed White

Generations later, a remedy to destroying Black neighborhoods is fulfilled in Michigan

Housing Saga Michigan - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Leslie Knox was a young girl in the 1960s when her Detroit-area city was accused of destroying neighborhoods to get rid of Black residents.

Decades later, the retired nurse has returned to Hamtramck, settling into a new two-story home on Gallagher Street and watching TV from a fold-up chair while she figures out how she wants to furnish it. She has no mortgage to pay, just property taxes and insurance.

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