It's a nice crib. For years, Frank Page said he complained to city officials about the vacant house at 3530 S. Barr St., next door to one he owns. Instead, the empty house with its broken windows and falling gutters tends to lure children, Page said. Broken promises Martha Thomas, moved into her newly renovated house on Hurd Street because city officials said the dilapidated house next door at 1418 Hurd St., which came under the county's authority in 1997, would be demolished. She has been there almost a year, and is still waiting.
Beer bottles litter the front yards, and the front porch ceiling is falling.
There is no date set for demolition, city records show. Meanwhile, Thomas has cleaned trash from the neighboring yard and fed a litter of puppies living under the house. And she waits. All rights reserved.