Blight
Fighting Foreclosure Blight With Demolition
16 July 2008 - 1:00pm
The Economist
As foreclosures increase throughout the country, more cities are looking to solve the problem of abandoned and dilapidated houses with demolition.
Foreclosure Blight Slashes Nation's Property Values
2 July 2008 - 8:00am
The Christian Science Monitor
Foreclosed homes are creating blight in urban and suburban areas all across the country, lowering property values by more than $200 billion.
City Accused Of Neglecting Community To Make Way For Redevelopment
10 April 2008 - 10:00am
The New York Times
Business and property owners in Willets Point, Queens have filed suit against New York City officials, claiming the city has deprived the area of basic services in order to declare the community blighted and begin redevelopment proceedings.
The Regional Approach to Fighting Poverty
15 March 2008 - 11:00am
Albany Times Union
This article from the Albany Times Union looks at the importance of using a regional approach to addressing poverty, crime and inner city blight.
Deteriorating Historic Homes May Fall For Market
29 February 2008 - 10:00am
The New York Times
Historic homes in the Brooklyn Navy Yard have blighted the neighborhood for years. Many residents are backing a plan to replace the deteriorating homes with a market, but preservationists are hesitant.
Blight in Full Color
27 February 2008 - 11:39pm
Every city has blight – the unsightly, derelict, abandoned, disheveled, and under-utilized spaces of our urban areas. It drains the life out of neighborhoods, drives down the values of surrounding properties, and just looks really bad. So what do cities do about it? Some seize it through eminent domain for redevelopment and others offer incentives to developers to replace it with something better. Many of them, though, don’t do anything at all. But removing blight from a city is not impossible, and it doesn’t have to be an elaborate multi-party scheme or a drawn-out political process. It can be as simple as a coat of paint.
