Frozen House. Image Courtesy of WDIV
Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow today: Six more weeks of winter. This is most likely good news for the artist/architect team in Detroit Michigan who are currently freezing an entire house in an effort to underscore the housing crisis in Detroit. Detroit’s Local 4 News reports that Hundreds of pounds of ice cover the vacant home on Detroit’s east side, thousands of gallons of water being hosed onto the spectacle – a statement about the hundreds of thousands of abandoned homes in their area. Gregory Holm, one of the artists, says that it is a metaphor for the frozen housing crisis. This home was donated by the state for this ‘art piece’. The location will not be revealed until February 6th. WDIV reports the Holm and his partner see this as an opportunity to show that “Vacant doesn’t mean worthless, down doesn’t mean out.”
Any housing news coming out of the mid-west is reason to be grateful that we are in Texas where the housing market is one of the strongest in the nation (and where the temperatures are much higher than in Detroit) and did not have near the effects of the housing slump as some. We are selling and buying houses with confidence.
