There are almost 100,000 housing units in Rochester. Nearly 11 percent of them are vacant. It’s simple economics, says Julio Vazquez, the city’s commissioner of community development. Rochester was built to house more than 300,000 people. It now has fewer than 220,000. The Rochester area’s population has swelled outward — and the inside has shrunk. […]
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