You have to watch the city government sometimes and this seems even more true in Detroit, Michigan. There are lots of houses that are on the list to be demolished because they are in such bad shape. Well it seems a man bought one of them for $7,000 and got it taken off of the demolition list. He had put about $30,000 into repairs in the house, went by one day and couldn’t find his house. It seems the city put it back on the demolition list and didn’t tell him.
“I drove up and down the street three times – where is my house?” Roslonski said. His lawyer, Jeffrey Dworin, said the house was taken off a demolition list, then apparently reinstated without Roslonski’s knowledge. “It happens,” Dworin said.
A message seeking comment was left with the city’s law department, which was closed for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday.
Roslonski is suing Detroit for his losses under a federal civil rights law. He fixed another house on the same street and sold it for $85,000. “I see all these boarded-up and burned-out houses. I’m trying to make the city a better place,” he said.
Can you imagine that happening to you? It happened a lot down here but most of the houses were not being repaired so they should have been torn down. This man was fixing the house. I hope he wins his case.