Mission

The mission of Community Progress is to create vibrant communities primarily through the reuse of vacant, abandoned, and problem properties in America’s cities and towns. We accomplish this mission in the following ways:

• The Center is the national resource for policy, information, capacity building, and training regarding the redevelopment of vacant, abandoned, and problem properties.
• The Center partners with federal, state, and local officials and non-profit organizations that are charged with repositioning vacant, abandoned, and problem properties.
• The Center collaborates with experts on relevant research needed to contribute to the growing body of appropriate public policy regarding the successful reuse of vacant, abandoned, and problem properties.
• The Center is the national advocacy organization regarding the successful reuse of vacant, abandoned, and problem properties.
• The Center uses its expertise to improve the overall economic and social well being of cities and towns in America impacted by large numbers of vacant, abandoned, and problem properties.