From Blighted Block to Housing 'Miracle'
5th Sep 2005, 16:16 GMT
The six rowhouses on tiny Farragut Place stood empty for a decade, trash piling up in the yards and plywood boards nailed where windows used to be. Neighbors called police when the rats got too bad and when vagrants snuck inside.
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