City fells homes that had been purchased at auction.
A dozen homes in Detroit have been mistakenly demolished, a city official says.
One of the residences had been purchased by a pair of artists who bought it for $500 at a tax auction in October.
Kristine Diven and Micho McAdow planned to fix up the empty two-story home and move in by the spring. But when they drove by one evening in December, their new house was gone.
“Instead of taking measurements for the boards we needed, we found our house in a pile,” Diven told The Detroit News for a story published Saturday.
The structure had been demolished by the state’s Land Bank Fast Track Authority as part of a program to eliminate blight near schools. At least 11 other properties, all bought by an area investor, also were razed in error, said Karla Henderson, director of Detroit’s planning and facilities department.
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