Through a friend of a friend, I heard that utilities are shutting down “grids” of service in Detroit neighborhoods with people still living in them.
The story is that these blocks in steep decline may have only a few homes left, with mainly renters. If they let their utilities lapse into shutoff, the utilities just cap off the whole area rendering those remaining homes uninhabitable. If they don’t, the neighborhood may be laid with extension cords running from the one house hooked up to power with automobile jumper-cables.

I don’t know how wide spread this is but if I owned rental property, I’d sure like to be aware. Anyone else heard anything?