New Orleans Vacant Properties InitiativeThe New Orleans Vacant Properties Initiative (NOVPI) is dedicated to aiding New Orleans public, private, and nonprofit institutions in their efforts to strengthen the city and its neighborhoods by returning vacant, deteriorated, and abandoned properties to commerce.
Community Progress is working with the city of New Orleans to:
Community Progress and its NOVPI Director Nicole Heyman played a key role in helping formulate Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s comprehensive blight eradication strategy which aims at revitalizing 10,000 blighted properties over the next three years and spurring economic growth.
Read about a few highlights from work being done in New Orleans in the News & Events section. |