Communities are asking their code enforcement agencies and frontline inspectors to do more in an era of fiscal constraint in neighborhoods with ever changing conditions, markets, and local conflicts. During the 2015 Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference, Senior Fellow Joe Schilling convened a roundtable titled “Building the Case for Strategic Code Enforcement.” As an emerging concept, strategic code enforcement would allow communities to deploy their legal remedies and policy tools in a more effective/efficient way—targeting the right response to the right place at the right time.
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