Joe and I were in Detroit I think around 2000.  A friend and artist Drew Bachrach was showing us around his home state of Michigan. (Dearborn / Detroit) I was shocked by the abondenment of houses all around Detroit.

I found this photo series called 100 Abandoned Houses.

“The abandoned houses project began innocently enough roughly ten years ago. I actually began photographing abandonment in Detroit in the mid 90’s as a creative outlet, and as a way of satisfying my curiosity with the state of my home town. I had always found it to be amazing, depressing, and perplexing that a once great city could find itself in such great distress, all the while surrounded by such affluence.” by Kevin Bauman