Detroit side lot sales help battle blight

Linda Gadsden spent years living next door to an overgrown and weed-filled dumping ground. By next summer, the 63-year-old Detroiter says it will be a lush garden with pumpkins, watermelon, tomatoes, lettuce and greens. It cost Gadsden less than two hours and $100 to snap up the property next to her corner lot home on Indiana Avenue during a Detroit Land Bank Authority side lot sale fair last month.
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