LizzieMaine
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The house-flipping craze of the early 00s was deadly to older houses here. Most of our housing stock is pre-war (much of it pre-WWI), and as soon as the it's-dough-let's-go boys got going, the market was flooded with small 1900-1920 houses in working-class neighborhoods that had been gutted and given the whiter-than-white/stainless-steel kitchen/presdwood-bathroom-vanity treatment as part of the first wave of local gentrification. I was lucky enough to find one that hadn't been so ruined, but it is very rare to find another.