# Why do houses get abandoned?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-houses-get-abandoned/364723>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 16, 2006, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-houses-get-abandoned/364723 "2006-07-16T09:33:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-houses-get-abandoned/364723/21 "2006-07-17T19:15:12Z")

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To answer the OP, what happened in my neighborhood was that when things got really bad, the houses were only worth about $50K. For the most part, it wasn’t worth fixing them. It wasn’t until the prices started rising in the city that these houses became worth fixing up.

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