One South Carolina County is utilizing a local resource to address vacant and abandoned properties – Wofford College ethnography and data science students. READ MORE
Taking Matters into One’s Own Hands
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 appREAD MORE
Government ALONE is not the answer
“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 thatREAD MORE
NYS Assembly Bill A3081/S3933 “Mortgages in Default Registries”
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 fromREAD MORE
Center for Community Progress Webinar: State Policy and Equitable Revitalization
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 –READ MORE
HOA Foreclosure Reforms
HOA with more than $1 million dollars on hand in checking accounts, CDs, saving accounts and cash, and total assets at more than $2.2 million dollars! That is what one media outlet reported on recently.READ MORE
White House “Housing Supply Action Plan”
Today, the White House issued a press release announcing Housing Supply Action Plan designed to ease the burden of housing costs over time, by boosting the supply of quality housing in every community. The planREAD MORE
Zombie Foreclosure “Shamer” has New Target …..With a Caveat
Erie County (NY) Clerk Mickey Kearns has been taking on so-called “zombie” properties for years, but now he’s got a new target to shame besides lenders: Erie County itself. Kearns states, many municipalities in theREAD MORE
One size fits all!
One comment we at MuniReg frequently receive is “our community is too small for a VPRO”. Well one community in Nebraska (Population in 2019: 445) disagrees. For more information, please click here.
First Time Homebuyers, Local Investors or Hedge Funds
Affordable housing continues to be a focal point of local governments. Now this issue is being taken up in two state legislatures in new and unique approaches. In Rhode Island, local tax-sale investors have askedREAD MORE
“It’s a nightmare”
Nelson added. “… It’s a nightmare getting to who actually owns the home and who actually needs to be talked to.” This quote was taken from a recent article in Magnolia, Arkansas. This demonstrates, theREAD MORE
Municipalities and HOA’s vs Rental Property Investment Funds
“But no one has tried to buy and sell homes at the scale of Cincinnati, which is “a game-changer for the housing market,” reporter Konrad Putzier said on a recent Wall Street Journal podcast about the acquisition.READ MORE