Originally Posted by detroitblog
Hill’s home is the Packard Plant, the infamous, 35-acre auto factory where production ended half a century ago. He wound up living here after losing a house to a loan he couldn’t repay. “I didn’t even need to get a loan,” he says, ruefully. “I don’t know why I got it. But after that everything started sliding away from me.” He’s not a squatter, though. The electricity and water here is paid for each month. He owns the space he lives in. And this is his official, listed address.
A few years ago, a friend with a warehouse at the decaying plant hired him to look after it, and before long Hill moved into one of the little rooms in back. Now it’s his."