I wrote earlier about the Jesus House. It turns out that the guy who decorated it was a renter and did not own the house.
The City has ordered that the Jesus House and the house next to it have to come down. Supposedly, the house next door is supposed to come down right away, and the owner of the Jesus House has up to a month to have it demolished. I say "supposedly" because in that part of town, the (usually out-of-town) landlords of burned-up houses tend to just stop paying their property taxes and answering notices from the City, so that the City has to take them to court and the whole thing drags on for years and years until the City finally takes ownership of the buildings and tears them down. Although things might go a little quicker with the blue house on the right, because it is so badly structurally damaged that the entire building is actually leaning, the Jesus House could be standing for quite a while longer.
Last week I swung by the neighborhood to get a couple of pictures.
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