Detroit Neighborhood Looking For Squatters To Move In
One Detroit neighborhood in the northwest of the city are currently looking for a single squatter in an effort to fill an abandoned home where the owners left the previous weekend. This seems like a complete joke, but the neighborhood is actually quite serious. They really want a homeless person to move in next door, according to The Detroit News.
The remote neighborhood in northwest Detroit by the Rouge River is actually not a bad place to live. It has its rough areas, of course, but overall it’s worth a look. The longtime owners of a single family home in the area, however, decided to move. Neighbors are now worried the home on Puriton and Hazelton will be stripped and burned to the ground if it remains empty. Eight homes in the area have burned in the past few years.
Jennifer Mergos, 33, co-founder of the Northwest Brightmoor Renaissance neighborhood group, said: “We want squatters. There’s so much abandonment here, we need them to turn the neighborhood around.”
Squatting is, of course, illegal throughout Michigan, and is punishable by two years in prison for repeat offenders. This group of people, however, are 100 percent fine with it. No one has taken them up so far, though.
