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The Role of Investors in the Single-Family Market in Distressed Neighborhoods: The Case of AtlantaPublication Date: 2/5/2013
By Dan Immergluck
As a result of the housing crisis, Atlanta has experienced a significant increase in the number of investor-owned single-family properties. This study seeks to describe the flow of single-family properties coming out REO status and the behavior of...
2011 Community Progress Annual ReportPublication Date: 5/11/2012
We formed Community Progress in 2010 to offer cutting edge information, tools and support to communities fighting to prevent abandonment and create strategies for productive reuse of property. Our 2011 annual report – our first as an organization – documents both the practical...
Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation: the Beginning, the Present, and Beyond, 2009 - 2011Publication Date: 11/17/2011
By W. Dennis Keating, PhD, Cleveland State University
Dennis Keating of Cleveland State University in Ohio spent six weeks with Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization staff to learn more about the inner workings of the land bank, and compiled that information into a comprehensive report about one of...
Meeting the Challenge of Distressed Property Investors in America's NeighborhoodsPublication Date: 10/1/2010
By Alan Mallach for LISC
This report takes a thorough look at the growing impact of distressed property investors and offers a range of actions local governments and CDCs can take to encourage responsible ownership.
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When Investors Buy Up the Neighborhood: Preventing Investor Ownership from Causing Neighborhood DeclinePublication Date: 4/1/2010
By Sarah Treuhaft, Kalima Rose and Karen Black
This report released by PolicyLink lays out several strategies for municipalities and private investors aimed at curtailing neglected and irresponsibly-managed REO properties that decimate the value of surrounding communities.
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Transforming Vacant Properties into Community AssetsPublication Date: 11/1/2008
Published by The Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at New York University
This report outlines the causes for the foreclosure crisis, problems in the market specifically for foreclosed properties, the opportunities for interventions (land banking, enhanced code enforcement, vacant...
Vacant and Abandoned Properties: Survey of the Best PracticesPublication Date: 6/1/2008
By The U.S. Conference of Mayors Vacant and Abandoned Properties Task Force; 6/2008
This report is a compilation of best practices to combat problems of vacant and abandoned properties in 27 cities. It also includes survey data brief survey on the impact that the mortgage foreclosure crisis is...
The Perfect Storm: An Eyewitness Report from Ground Zero in Cleveland's NeighborhoodsPublication Date: 4/1/2008
By Kermit Lind for Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development
This is an eyewitness report from an attorney working with Cleveland neighborhood development corporations, including one in Slavic Village, a neighborhood sometimes referred to as "ground zero" in the mortgage meltdown....
Paying More for the American Dream--The Subprime Shakeout and Its Impact on Lower-Income and Minority CommunitiesPublication Date: 3/1/2008
Published by California Reinvestment Coalition, Community Reinvestment Association of North Carolina, Empire Justice Center, Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance, Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project, Ohio Fair Lending Coalition, Woodstock Institute
This report examines...
Foreclosure and Beyond: A Report on Ownership and Housing Prices Following Sheriff's Sales, Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 2000-2007Publication Date: 1/1/2008
By Claudia Coulton, Kristen Mikelbank, and Michael Schramm
Published by The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University
Rates of foreclosure have quadrupled since 2000 in Cuyahoga County, primarily as a...
From Boom to Bust: Helping Families Prepare for the Rise in Subprime Mortgage ForeclosuresPublication Date: 3/1/2007
By Almas Sayeed, Center for American Progress
This paper examines the cause of the foreclosure crisis and lays out four steps to help ameliorate this rise in the foreclosure rate. These four steps include awarding federal grants to expand and enhance current mortgage assistance and foreclosure...
Community Response to the Foreclosure Crisis: Thoughts on Local InterventionsPublication Date: 5/1/2005
By Dan Immergluck, Visiting Scholar in Community Affairs at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Associate Professor in City and Regional Planning at Georgia Insititute of Technology
Published by The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
This paper lays out a framework for how local entities...
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