THE U.S. is stumbling into a rapidly worsening housing shortage. Soaring costs and shrinking credit have crippled new construction even though vacancy rates have fallen to a 20-year low. Yet in many of the nation's troubled central cities, the most visible housing difficulty is of an entirely different order a lack not of buildings but of neighborhoods deemed fit to live in, even by the poor. As a consequence, acres of houses and apartment buildings have been abandoned by their owners and tenants to decay.
No one knows exactly how many abandoned dwellings there...
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