“He takes your checkbook, he takes your credit cards, he lives in your house and he sleeps in your bed with your wife. . . . He tells you it’s still your house, but he doesn’t clean up, sells off everything and then he packs his bag and leaves.” — Donald Watkins, City Council member in Pontiac, Michigan, in “Lessons for Detroit in a City’s Takeover.”
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