Embassy Blight

Like all cities, Washington DC tries to take various steps to ensure that vacant or abandoned properties don't fall into disrepair and become a source of blight in neighborhoods. But as The Washington Post points out today, DC has to deal with one class of property that other American cities don't worry about -- abandoned embassies that exist outside the legal jurisdiction of the city and, indeed, the country.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/06/embassy-blight/45285/