blighted properties

Raze the roof – Cleveland’s tear-it-down approach

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A slow process of out-migration, loss of jobs, loss of population and the recent housing crisis has left cleveland with a host vacant homes, approximately 13,000.  Due to rehabilation costs exceeding potential sales prices and a mis-match in productive (land/economic) uses, nearly 80% of these vacant homes make fiscal sense to demolitish. This has left the city and remaining neighborhoods
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The Public Protests Deterioration of Bank-Owned Vacant Property

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Community residents throughout the country have seen properties abandoned and subjected to negligence.  Hundreds of these deteriorated properties are owned by banks – Bank of America and Wells Fargo, among others.  And although, these banks claim they strive to comply with property codes and act upon foreclosure policies “that aim to protect properties and communities,”
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