An elderly man is dead after a house fire on Detroit's west side Saturday night, according to the city's fire department.

“Our emergency manager ought to come and take a look at this stuff as he makes decisions about Detroit development ... pointing at the burned house. “It’s a damned shame.” ...

Detroit's decade-long wave of tax and mortgage foreclosures has wiped out large swaths of the city's neighborhoods as Wayne County continues to seize thousands of occupied homes a year.