A $500 house in Detroit
Subtitle: rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
By: Drew Philp
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781476797984
Subjects: Urban renewal; Subculture; Generation Y; Remodeling; Working class whites; Community development; Homes and haunts; Dwellings; Citizen participation; Race relations; Social conditions; African Americans; Biography
Other titles: Five hundred dollars house in Detroit; Rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
Description: "A young writer's sincere search (with his dog) for an authentic life--buying a ruined house in Detroit for $500, fixing it up nail by nail, and, in the process, participating in the grassroots rebirth of the city itself."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: best bid; title: Raw material; title: Clapboard siding; title: Someone else's trash; title: Windows and doors and airplanes; title: A fence between me and the world; title: Load bearing walls; title: The furnace; title: A knock on the door; title: A chimney to the sky; title: Progress gallops; title: The years roll by; title: Someone else's home.