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Vacant lots on Carman Street in 7 Mile and Woodward area.
Detroit News reporter Louis Aguilar reports that Detroit, once home to 78,500 empty, blighted houses, now has 122,929 vacant lots, many where homes once stood. That amounts to about 18 square miles of open space.
Many of the vacant lots are the result of the aggressive efforts under the Duggan administration to raze abandoned homes.
Aguilar writes the city's next big step will be to figure out how to use those lots.
Some Detroiters are using vacant lots for farming, while others have pushed to build parks.
