Category: Reference Desk

Foreclosure Crisis Impacts on Local Voter Participation

Following is a press release from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, discussing how the most recent foreclosure crisis negatively impacted voter...

May 7, 2019

GOPC Report “Misconceptions About Vacant Property Registries” – an Analysis

In September of 2018 the Greater Ohio Policy Center issued a report “Misconceptions About Vacant Property Registries”. The report provides...

March 19, 2019

Greater Ohio Policy Center “Misconceptions About Vacant Property Registries”

Wonderful report by Greater Ohio Policy Center titled “Misconceptions About Vacant Property Registries”. Specifically, the report discusses; What is a VPRO...

February 26, 2019

LSU Department of Sociology Study Linking Blight and Homicide

A new study led by LSU Department of Sociology Assistant Professor Matthew Valasik is the first to show a statistical...

February 19, 2019

State Fight The Blight and Vacant Property Registration Legislation

Following are a listing of various state initiatives surrounding Vacant Property Registration or general Fight-the-Blight Initiatives. Alabama Statewide Manufactured Housing...

February 15, 2019

GAO “(Vacant Properties) Growing Number Increases Communities’ Costs and Challenges”

In November 2011 the General Accounting Office issued a report titled “(Vacant Properties) Growing Number Increases Communities’ Costs and Challenges. Following...

February 14, 2019

GAO “Additional Mortgage Servicer Actions Could Help Reduce the Frequency and Impact of Abandoned Foreclosures”

Featuring the topic of “bank walkaways”, in November 2010 the General Accounting Office issued a report titled “Additional Mortgage Servicer Actions...

HUD Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) 2014 report “Vacant and Abandoned Properties: Turning Liabilities Into Assets”

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD’s) Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) issued a report in...

2005 The National Vacant Properties Campaign Report “Vacant Properties The True Costs to Communities”

In one of the original reports on this topic, The National Vacant Properties Campaign (now the Center for Community Progress)...

Albany Law School Research Paper “Regulating Vacant Property”

In 2011 a research paper was issued by the Albany Law School, authored by Keith H. Hirokawa and Ira Gonzalez....