– Some look as if they had recent makeovers and sport new siding and windows.

Others haven’t seen a paint brush in decades and feature sagging gutters and decrepit railings.

Some are boarded up. Many have foreclosure stickers in the front windows. All of them – and there are many – look depressingly empty.

They are vacant houses, and there are 11,956 of them in Fort Wayne.

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