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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...
Cook County Land Bank TAP ReportPublication Date: 12/18/2012
By Urban Land Institute, Chicago
Cook County, Illinois has faced a widespread problem of vacancy and abandonment, especially following the recent foreclosure crisis. This report, produced by a Technical Assistance Panel (TAP) to support land banking efforts in the County, introduces the problem 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...
Banking on Neighborhood StabilizationPublication Date: 4/25/2012
By Dan Kildee
Even the most sophisticated private and nonprofit partnerships for dealing with vacant property will end up with some properties that don’t pencil out. Land banks can step in to keep those properties from dragging down revitalization efforts.
A year ago, the Beach Street...
Putting Data to Work: Data-Driven Approaches to Strengthening NeighborhoodsPublication Date: 12/13/2011
A timely and comprehensive look at innovative ways communities are building data systems to improve knowledge of local demographic trends and more effectively target limited resources.
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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...
Re-Imagining Cleveland: Ideas to Action Resource BookPublication Date: 2/1/2011
By Neighborhood Progress Inc./Cleveland Land Lab at Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative - Kent State University
Nearly three years ago after an eye-opening study on land abandonment in the city of Cleveland, planners, residents, and other engaged community stakeholders crafted a comprehensive...
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...
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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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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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...
To Be Strong Again: Renewing the Promise in Smaller Industrial Cities.Publication Date: 4/1/2008
By Radhika Fox and Miriam Axel-Lute
This new publication presents an equitable development agenda for redeveloping smaller industrial cities. With populations ranging from 15,000 to 150,000 and median household incomes below $35,000, these cities face unique challenges, but with coordinated...
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...
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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