Smartphone app to help in Detroit fight vs. blight

Published July 11, 2014 1:36pm ET



DETROIT (AP) — A smartphone app is the latest tool in Detroit’s efforts to fight blight.

By contributing photos and updated information about derelict properties, the public will be able to help keep the Motor City Mapping project database current, the Detroit Free Press reported (http://on.freep.com/1y2DlDi ). The digital map of Detroit properties already helped assess the city’s 380,000 real estate parcels for a May blight-removal task force report.

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