Detroit Free Press-

Aside from shutting off water to Detroit residents, no public policy draws so much criticism as the annual Wayne County auction of tax-foreclosed properties.

For good reason, too. In recent years, thousands of owner-occupied Detroit homes have been seized by the Wayne County Treasurer’s office for non-payment of property taxes.

When the county puts these houses out to auction, it threatens to boot residents out of their homes. Often the houses wind up in the hands of absentee landlords, and the displaced residents wind up in shabbier housing elsewhere.

[DETROIT FREE PRESS]

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