Revitalising a Detroit neighbourhood

Detroit

THE house on Iliad Street is stripped to a skeleton: no appliances, no wiring, no doors. Upstairs reeks of urine and animal waste because someone once stashed dogs there for fighting. Downstairs, the floors are covered in rubble, empty whiskey bottles and other detritus left by squatters and junkies.

Jonathan Pommerville sees just one thing, however: possibility."This house can be rehabbed and brought back to life!" he shouts.