BuzzReads: My $500 Detroit Home

Why would one man buy an abandoned home in Detroit? Drew Philp explains. Longform by BuzzFeed Why I Bought A House In Detroit For $500 After college, as Drew Philp's friends left Michigan for better opportunities, he was determined to help fix a broken, chaotic city by building his own home in the middle of it. Read It On BuzzFeed More Longform Stories We're Reading... How A Monkey In A Toilet Helped Me Find God — BuzzFeed Going Back To College Felt (Almost) As Hard As Fighting Cancer — BuzzFeed The Legacy Of The “Boys Don’t Cry” Hate Crime 20 Years Later — BuzzFeed Why Women Aren’t Welcome On The Internet — Pacific Standard Inside The Incredible Booming Subterranean Marijuana Railroad — GQ The Flying Tomato Would Rather You Not Call Him That Anymore — The New York Times Magazine Last Words: Suicide, Language, And The Data Of Despair — Cincinnati Magazine Wilderness Women: In Alaska, With Something To Prove — SB Nation Einstein’s Camera: How One Renegade Photographer Is Hacking The Concept Of Time — Matter Get more stories on BuzzFeed What's hot on BuzzFeed This BuzzFeed email was sent to dwyld.kwu.yq4b5l8av2dw7@blogger.com | Unsubscribe Did a friend forward you this email? Sign up to get BuzzFeed in your inbox BuzzFeed, Inc. 200 Fifth Ave, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10010