thousands of homes will soon be torn down in detroit. detroit s mayor recently announced a program to destroy 10,000 of the city s most dangerous buildings over the next four years and recently started demolishing the first round of abandoned houses. joining me on the phone, a radio reporter from detroit. this is really fascinate be. the issue being those foreclosed homes, it s turned the area of certain parts of that city into just devastation. what s the goal here? you tear it down, and then what? well, that s the thing. because what they want to do is make this more accessible for people to re-invest in detroit and come in. right now in many sections of detroit you can have homeowners who have lived there literal already for decades and maintained their homes, but across the street, down the neighborhood block, multiple homes literally abandoned, stripped out of copper plumbing,