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Premier Bedding at 1510 Elm Street.

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Burned out home on North Ontario Street.

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A home being mowed on Michigan.

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Claudia Collins sits in her porch at 1116 Michigan and talks about blight in the neighborhood.

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Canada Southern Avenue and Tudor.

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Larisa Collins stands near a house that her mother Claudia Collins bought and refurbished.

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The abandoned Riverside Hospital.

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Burned out home on North Ontario Street.

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415 13th Street.

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Playground of the former Toledo Day Nursery at 219 Southard.

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Premier Bedding at 1510 Elm Street in Toledo.

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Trash bags are dumped on Castle near Maplewood.

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Site of the Northtowne Square Mall in Toledo.

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Former Abele Funeral Home on Cherry Street.

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Playground of the former Toledo Day Nursery at 219 Southard.

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A closed carryout at Mulberry and Ontario.

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An arrow points to a dilapidated gas station at North Ontario and Lagrange.

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Burned out home at Chestnut and Palmer.

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Rundown car wash at 2534 Summit Street with the former Woolson Spice Company in the background.

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Home at 2314 North Erie Street.

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2935 Chase.

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From left, Trezon Manns, 10, Travares Craig, 10, Terrance Coffey, 9, Broderick Goodlow, 14, and his cousin Raymond Goodlow, 6, play basketball in front of a vacant home at 652 Ashwood Ave.

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Lou Espino, top, sits on the front stoop with Amber Crandall, left, Amber's sister Tammy Crandall, center, and Tammy's grandchildren, brothers 10 month-old Bentley and six-year-old Jacob Moreno, right, at Tammy's house on Ohio Street near Chase Street

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Maria Dominguez mows the front yard of the home she owns in the 700 block of Magnolia Street.

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