Baltimore’s ‘ghost homes’ are just houses

As the song goes, “A chair is still a chair, even when there’s no one sitting there.” But a house is not the same thing as a home. A home is a dwelling place; apartments qualify, as well as many trailers. Not so the abandoned, decaying buildings described in the Nov. 29 Metro article about Baltimore’s “ghost homes,” “Baltimore turns to foreclosure plan to solve ‘ghost homes.’ ”