"I've traipsed around abandoned buildings in Gary and thought about decorating the rooms. We talked for months and months about what we could do with these rooms. We're dressing up the motel.

Gary, Indiana or 'The Steel City,' which was once home to more than 10,000 abandoned buildings after half its population fled, has seen house prices skyrocket from a median of just $15,000 in 2014 ...

Gary ranked third-highest in the region, with a 20.6 percent home vacancy rate, census figures show. Gary's landscape long has been plagued by abandoned buildings.

A bipartisan bill from the U.S. Senate centers around helping communities, including ones in Indiana, turn abandoned buildings into new housing. U.S. Senator Jim Banks, ...