Mississippi News

How bad is blight in west Jackson?

By Molly Minta | Originally published by Mississippi Today

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West Jackson neighbors Valerie Clark and Heather Logan recently formed a nonprofit called Revive and Restore to prove a hypothesis that might surprise you: Their neighborhood has more good homes than blighted homes. JXN Reporter Molly Minta talks to Clark and Logan about their work mapping all 7,000+ parcels in their neighborhood.


This article was originally published by Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.

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