http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091025/us_nm/us_usa_housing_detroit

Taken together, the properties seized by tax collectors for arrears and put up for sale last week represented an area the size of New York’s Central Park. Total vacant land in Detroit now occupies an area almost the size of Boston, according to a Detroit Free Press estimate.

“Why am I competing against a bank?” he said later. “It would be common sense to have a separate process for people who want to move back to the city or it’s going to stay empty.”

Obama praises convicted felon thug – Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZNvC_-RW2Q
Clinton signed NAFTA into law and Obama assured the Canadian and Mexican government he has its full support.