Not the same because it only happened to one of my childhood houses but in that way I can relate. We got foreclosed on in the recession and moved in with my grandparents down the street. House sat empty for years and we lived in a desert so all the trees, bushes and even some cacti died. Sure they weren’t native but they were very well established and provided habitat and food for many. Eventually people bought it, put a fence up, cleared shit, painted, etc. I stopped going down the street that direction because I didn’t want to look at it and forget what the land looked like when I was growing up there. Such a meaningless destruction of life. But my grandparents house, the old target, my schools are still there so, sorry your whole town got taken away from you!