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Flint's housing stock reflects the city's own industrial waves: modest worker housing built near the Durant-Dort carriage works and, after 1908, the General Motors plants -- including the planned streets of the Civic Park Historic District -- followed by ranch-house subdivisions that spread into Genesee County's townships as the auto industry grew through the 1950s and 60s. Much of that ground sits on the same slow-draining clay that underlies Genesee County generally, and many of those postwar homes still carry the clay-tile or early corrugated footing drains that were standard into the 1980s -- systems now old enough to crush, clog, or collapse and leave hydrostatic pressure with no relief.
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Roof runoff, grading, hydrostatic pressure, wall cracks, floor joints, drainage, and interior humidity can create similar symptoms with very different solutions.
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Roof runoff, grading, hydrostatic pressure, wall cracks, floor joints, drainage, and interior humidity can create similar symptoms with very different solutions.
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Flint's housing stock reflects the city's own industrial waves: modest worker housing built near the Durant-Dort carriage works and, after 1908, the General Motors plants -- including the planned streets of the Civic Park Historic District -- followed by ranch-house subdivisions that spread into Genesee County's townships as the auto industry grew through the 1950s and 60s. Much of that ground sits on the same slow-draining clay that underlies Genesee County generally, and many of those postwar homes still carry the clay-tile or early corrugated footing drains that were standard into the 1980s -- systems now old enough to crush, clog, or collapse and leave hydrostatic pressure with no relief.
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“Flint's economic story begins in 1886, when William C. "Billy" Durant and Josiah Dallas Dort founded the Durant-Dort Carriage Company at Factory One, building it into one of the country's largest carriage manufacturers. David Dunbar Buick moved his young engine business from Detroit to Flint in 1903, and after Durant took over Buick's management in 1904 he built it into the country's top automaker by 1908 -- the same year he used that success to found General Motors in Flint on September 16, 1908, turning a carriage-manufacturing town into the industrial engine of an automotive revolution.”
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