Declining Rural Towns Offer Free Land

Reminiscent of the Homestead movement, towns across America's heartland offer free land to new residents.

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July 12, 2005, 2:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"For vast stretches of rural America" declining populations and strained tax bases result in new "ghost towns." "Hoping to reverse the decline, enterprising small towns across the Great Plains have begun offering land at little or no cost to anyone who will build a house and move in."

Thanks to Kurt Paulsen

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Community / Economic Development United States

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