Gary, Ind., has lost half its population since 1960, and a realestate analysis firm now raises the specter of parts of it becominga ghost town — at least for the purposes of a tongue-in-cheekHalloween-themed survey.
Three Gary zip codes were listed among the top 10 with thehighest ratios of vacant homes with dead owners in a survey ATTOMData Solutions called “Spooktacular Zip Codes: Zip Codes Where theVacant Home May Be the Haunted Home.”
Earlier this year, Gary was planning on demolishing nearly 700vacant homes using a state fund to fight urban blight. As the steelindustry withered, Gary's population fell from a peak of 178,320 in1960 to 80,000 in 2010.
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