Philp, Drew, <br/><br/>
A $500 house in Detroit :  rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city / 
 Five hundred dollar house in Detroit  Rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city 
by Drew Philp. 
 - xi, 290 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Prologue: best bid -- Raw material -- Clapboard siding -- Someone else's trash -- Windows and doors and airplanes -- A fence between me and the world -- Load bearing walls -- The furnace -- A knock on the door -- A chimney to the sky -- Progress gallops -- The years roll by -- Someone else's home. 
<br/><br/> "A young writer's sincere search (with his dog) for an authentic life--buying a ruined house in Detroit for $500, fixing it up nail by nail, and, in the process, participating in the grassroots rebirth of the city itself."--Provided by publisher. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781476797984 9781476797991 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2016046283 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Philp, Drew--Homes and haunts--Michigan--Detroit.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Dwellings--Remodeling--Michigan--Detroit.<br/>Urban renewal--Citizen participation.--Michigan--Detroit<br/>Subculture--Michigan--Detroit.<br/>Community development--Michigan--Detroit.<br/>Working class whites--Michigan--Detroit--Biography.<br/>African Americans--Social conditions--Michigan--Detroit--21st century.<br/>Generation Y--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Detroit (Mich.)--Biography.<br/>Detroit (Mich.)--Race relations.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F574.D453  / P55 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>307.3/4160977434