Category: Reference Desk

Webinar: REACTIVE TO PROACTIVE: A Path to Equitable & Efficient Neighborhood Revitalization

MuniReg President Michael Halpern was privileged to co-present on a recent webinar titled “REACTIVE TO PROACTIVE: A Path to Equitable...

December 13, 2024

Local Housing Solutions Rental Registries Brief

Earlier this year, Local Housing Solutions released a brief reviewing “empirical evidence about rental registries’ efficacy in promoting housing quality...

November 13, 2024

Creating Effective, Comprehensive, and Accessible Home Repair Programs

In August 2024 The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies issued a report titled “Catalyzing a Movement to Produce Greater...

October 30, 2024

Challenges with “Heir Property”

Please see for resources from Fannie Mae and the Center of Community Progress. Fannie Mae In a recent post on...

August 6, 2024

PA Local Government Commission “Property Maintenance Code Enforcement Report”

The Local Government Commission of Pennsylvania General Assembly, a bicameral and bipartisan legislative agency released a new report titled “Property...

June 5, 2024

CCP Reevaluating Code Enforcement: A New Approach to Addressing Problem Properties

The Center for Community Progress has released a new report titles “Reevaluating Code Enforcement: A New Approach to Addressing Problem...

February 26, 2024

Cleaning up the built environment to reduce crime

Below please find a recent post by the Niskanen Center, a nonprofit public policy organization named the “The Most Interesting...

February 8, 2024

Illegal Dumping Creating Mental Health Challenges

Bernadette Hohl, a senior research investigator with the Penn Injury Science Center and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health’s Injury...

February 5, 2024

Landlord Engagement Lab Toolkit

A collaboration between National League of Cities and the Stanford Legal Design Lab has created an updated Landlord Engagement Lab...

January 28, 2024

Land Bank Ownership’s Impact on Violent Crime Reduction

A Center for Community Progress report discusses a study that found land bank ownership was associated with net declines in...

January 2, 2024