Many municipalities utilize various reporting methods to address blight. Now in Baltimore, one housing advocate who also happens to be a systems and software engineer, seeing the need for better data created a new app called “Fight Blight Bmore”.

The app “identifies, reports, tracks, and analyzes blighted properties throughout the city.”

“The goal is for residents and communities to use the app for mapping blight in their neighborhoods, as well as track if those issues have been addressed. The data gathered is meant to support advocacy”

For more information, please click here. 

“The current and very dedicated Code Enforcement team is simply overwhelmed…………..”
“Government is not the answer.”
Two quotes from a recent article speak volumes.
The first one we agree with!
The second one, well that we partially agree with.
Government ALONE is not the answer.
Collaborating with the right private sector companies can drastically improve efficiencies and reduce frustrations.
Learn more about how MuniReg can lessen the unnecessary burden code officers across the country face by contacting [email protected]
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Blight is taking over the landscape

Update December 21
New York Assembly Bill A3081, was signed by Governor Kathy Hochul on November 21.
To view an update from Ballard Spahr LLP, please click here.

 

Through a lot of hard work from folks at Western New York Law Center, New York State is poised to enact strong parameters/restrictions on “default registries” as A3081/S3933 has passed both the Assembly & Senate and now awaits the Governor’s signature.

To view the current bill text, please click here.

In a guest post for Griswold Law Firm, a leading California receivership services company, MuniReg President Michael Halpern discusses the need to have realistic expectations for one of the most widely utilized tools in the fight against blight, specific to compliance, objectives and outcomes.

To view the blog posting, please click here.

 

With its latest webinar, CCP focuses on how state laws and policies affect local attempts to revitalize problem properties.

With presentations by Alan Mallach – Senior Fellow, Center for Community Progress and Alison Goebel – Executive Director, Greater Ohio Policy Center the webinar focused on;

To access the webinar recording, please click here.