Shrinking Flint?

Flint, Michigan - home of Michael Moore and a town with a once-vibrant auto industry - is confronted by abandoned homes and a shrinking population. So they are talking about "demolishing entire blocks and even whole neighborhoods" to avoid the blight of vacant lots.

Interesting concept. Quite a few American cities are facing this sort of dilemma - and not all in the Rust Belt since Little Rock is one of the cities setting up "land banks."