The Nation - News from Feb. 25, 1987
Philadelphia will demolish 600 sinking homes and uproot 2,000 residents from a neighborhood that was built in the 1920s on a creek bed filled with unstable earth, Mayor Wilson Goode said. Goode announced the formation of a nonprofit corporation to buy the homes and oversee the resettlement of displaced residents.
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