Title: A $500 house in Detroit
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.
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, Detroit (mich.), history, Detroit (mich.), social conditions, Dwellings, remodeling, Working class, united states, Michigan, biography, United states, race relations, Community development, united states, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Philp, Drew -- Homes and haunts -- Michigan -- Detroit, Dwellings -- Remodeling -- Michigan -- Detroit, Urban renewal -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Citizen participation, Subculture -- Michigan -- Detroit, Community development -- Michigan -- Detroit, Working class whites -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Biography, African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social conditions -- 21st century, Generation Y -- Biography, Detroit (Mich.) -- Biography, Detroit (Mich.) -- Race relations
Places: Michigan, Detroit (Mich.), Detroit
People: Drew Philp
Time periods: 21st century