look at this photograph
There are probably good neighborhoods all over America with this problem.
“While I was driving down Winslow street last week on St. Paul’s West side I found this home. Cars drive by it and slow down to read the graffiti. I don’t know the story but I suspect that it involves a foreclosure.”
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