On December 18th issued the following press release regarding his signing of the “Zombie Property Remediation Act of 2019” To...
December 20, 2019
Property conditions are generally contingent on several factors. Of course occupancy status is the primary factor but there are several...
December 16, 2019
Following a March 4, 2019 referral to the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, S1155 was reported from the Committee and...
December 12, 2019
On October 22, 2019 the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) amended the regulations and issued a final...
December 10, 2019
In an aggressive approach to “zombie foreclosures, at the request of Alderman James Martuscello, Amsterdam NY Common Council members unanimously...
December 2, 2019
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta just released a white paper on “VPROs” titled, “Foreclosure Externalities and Vacant Property Registration...
November 25, 2019
Several of the 2020 Presidential hopefuls have revealed their housing plans, mostly focused on affordable housing. Recently Sen. Elizabeth Warren...
November 20, 2019
As previously reported, Pennsylvania Governor Wolf has taken an aggressive approach to the fight against blight. Additional information is now...
November 13, 2019
A radical fix for a U.S. health-care crisis prominently utilizes vacant and abandoned properties. In a recent feature, Bloomberg Businessweek...
November 11, 2019
Flint MI was one of three recipients of the Cities of Service 2019 Engaged Cities Award. Underwritten by Bloomberg Philanthropies,...
November 5, 2019