Miguel Christian's family owns five properties on the Southside, and have had several of the properties destroyed by the city. The family struggles to keep the properties up to code, Christian said. The old structures need a lot of work, and when they do make repairs the materials are quickly stolen at night, he said. Pictured, Rey Reynoso (right) and his brother Miguel Christian move boards that need to be cut so they can board up a door at their vacant dilapidated house on the corner of Wilson Lee Boulevard and Newbern Avenue on Jan. 30.
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