Detroit MI Mayor Mike Duggan announced a new initiative to address blight by installing solar arrays in 3 residential neighborhoods....
June 27, 2024
A recent release from Australia’s Dept. of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety, announces a new $5 million “Vacant Property...
May 9, 2024
MuniReg has never been a proponent of “advertising vacancy“. For severely dilapidated properties, that are clearly abandoned, posting for example...
April 3, 2024
A headline like this “Aroostook County landfill cuts towns a break on blighted buildings” shouldn’t be newsworthy, as collaboration between...
March 22, 2024
Previously reported in November 2022, The University of Memphis School of Law’s Neighborhood Preservation Clinic represents the City of Memphis...
March 20, 2024
In a full length feature, WTVG discussed various efforts underway in Toledo to address blight. Community engagement is a critical...
In the fall of 2023, the Center for Community Progress released a blog posting discussing the difficulties with tax lien...
January 2, 2024
We have previously provided studies (see below) demonstrating the connection between abandoned properties/blight and crime, specifically gun violence. Now a...
December 27, 2023
A recent article discussing the challenges facing Birmingham AL also focused on an upcoming creative partnership. “Soon under a new...
October 4, 2023
A recent article discusses one community’s initiatives to “injecting new life into narrow, vacant lots brought about by blighted-structures removal”....
May 16, 2023