hmm you have to live there for five years before getting full ownership and work a job that pays 35k or more. If the concord was still flying and cheap I could maybe work a commute. It may be better to do what Youngstown did. Accept the fact that people arent coming back, demolish the empty buildings and let nature retake the land.
It's a real sh!t hole, and about 10 truck stops..and a bunch of old and abandon steel mills that used to supply the auto industry and steel for bridges and buildings..
It's ashamed, there used to be a thriving economy at one time.
Not to sound like a racist, but the reason Gary, IN is a failed community, it started out white, grew into a upper middle class 50's families coomunity, then the blacks started to move in and the whites moved out further to suburban areas.
Proof and stats are here: Gary, IN - Working class to a welfare class..
Same path Detroit has taken... most whites move out to places like Ann Arbor, Deerborn and Farmington Heights..