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My Two Cents

Detroit

Chris Farrell Mar 6, 2009

Thanks to Mickey Kaus at Slate I saw this shocking number. The median sales price in the city of Detroit for the three months ending in January was $10,000. You read that right. In a city of $800,000. The data comes from Trulia

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