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Blogging the Blight of a Deteriorated Detroit Neighborhood

Amid the citywide blight of Detroit is the City Airport neighborhood -- rife with crime and virtually deserted by residents. But now former residents have begun to write and blog about the neighborhood, its better times and its possible futures.
22 December 2008 - 10:00am
Utne Reader

A Shrinking City is Not a Failed City

Once New Orleans comes to terms with the fact that it is a shrinking city, the city's culture and geographic location can help bring it back.
25 November 2008 - 2:00pm
The Times-Picayune

America's 'Worst Slum' Revitalized

Thirty-one years ago, Jimmy Carter called Crotona Park East the worst slum in America. Today, this Bronx neighborhood has overcome its past with new homes and a lively park.
28 October 2008 - 9:00am
The New York Times

Fighting Foreclosure Blight With Demolition

As foreclosures increase throughout the country, more cities are looking to solve the problem of abandoned and dilapidated houses with demolition.
16 July 2008 - 1:00pm
The Economist

Foreclosure Blight Slashes Nation's Property Values

Foreclosed homes are creating blight in urban and suburban areas all across the country, lowering property values by more than $200 billion.
2 July 2008 - 8:00am
The Christian Science Monitor

City Accused Of Neglecting Community To Make Way For Redevelopment

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.
10 April 2008 - 10:00am
The New York Times

The Regional Approach to Fighting Poverty

This article from the Albany Times Union looks at the importance of using a regional approach to addressing poverty, crime and inner city blight.
15 March 2008 - 11:00am
Albany Times Union

Deteriorating Historic Homes May Fall For Market

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.
29 February 2008 - 9:00am
The New York Times
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Nate Berg

Blight in Full Color

27 February 2008 - 10:39pm

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.

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