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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...
Cook County IL passes groundbreaking vacant property registration ordinance: Full ordinancePublication Date: 12/28/2011
Cook County – the county seat of the City of Chicago – unanimously passed landmark vacant property registration legislation in December 2011 that will help prevent neglect in unincorporated Cook and any of the County’s 128 municipalities that choose to participate. Community...
Cook County IL passes groundbreaking vacant property registration ordinance: learn more about the issue and the legislation from this PowerPoint presentationPublication Date: 12/28/2011
Cook County – the county seat of the City of Chicago – unanimously passed landmark vacant property registration legislation in December 2011 that will help prevent neglect in unincorporated Cook and any of the County’s 128 municipalities that choose to participate. Community...
Responsible Approaches to Neighborhood Stabilization: Case Studies in ActionPublication Date: 11/1/2010
By NeighborWorks America
This report includes case studies of organizations that are using some of NeighborWorks’ 12 core principles for responsible redevelopment in their work to stabilize their communities. The organizations in these case studies have some tools at their disposal, such as...
REO & Vacant Properties: Strategies for Neighborhood StabilizationPublication Date: 9/1/2010
By the Federal Reserve Banks of Boston and Cleveland
A complete overview of the scope and problem of real estate-owned and vacant properties and detailed solutions on addressing blight.
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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...
Collateral Damage: The Municipal Impact of Today's Mortgage Foreclosure BoomPublication Date: 5/1/2005
By William Apgar and Mark Duda, Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University
Published by The Homeownership Preservation Foundation
The recent rise in foreclosures has opened a new and costly chapter in the troubled history of America’s distressed urban neighborhoods. This report...
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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