Sitting on a crumbling stoop on Herbert Street in West Baltimore, 71-year-old Salim Sadiki could almost see his childhood playing out before him. Now, the block looks nothing like it did when Sadiki was a boy. In one hour, the home where Sadiki lived would be demolished. For now, green space will take its place, but the lot could someday be a laundry, a supermarket, a community center for neighborhood children. The section of Herbert Street is one of many abandoned blocks slated for demolition through Project CORE, a $94 million initiative to raze a chunk of the 17,000 vacant houses that have come to symbolize the deep social divide in Baltimore.

Source: Fox News June 05, 2017 07:30 UTC