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State of Opportunity from Michigan Radio show

Summary: When you’re in your house, what do you see when you look out your front window? Maybe a big maple tree, a mailbox, your neighbor’s house across the street and the house next to them. Cindy Dorman wishes that's what she saw when she looked out her front window. But instead she sees a whole lot of blight. "Twenty-one abandoned houses" within a one-block radius of her house, to be exact. Dorman lives in Detroit's Brightmoor neighborhood, one of the most blighted areas in the city. She grew up in