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Habitat Adds Demolition to Its Mission

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Habitat for Humanty is shifting to fixing homes in Saginaw, Michigan, which has so many vacant homes. With $500,000 from state and local governments and an agreeement with the city, volunteers and pid workers plan to demolish two vacant dilapidated houses here aweek, every week for the next 2 years. About 800 homes in this city sit empty and abandoned. Saginaw is down to 56,000 residents, half of what it had in the years the auto industry was at its strongest. Now what jobs exist are mostlyy in health care.

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