Challenges and Opportunities in Changing Urban Housing Markets
Explore the dynamics behind recent shifts in urban housing markets and what they mean for community development practitioners.
Read MoreUnderstanding Neighborhood Housing Markets
Watch the recording here » As housing markets recover and boom, not every neighborhood sees equal growth. Understanding the different submarkets within your city is critical to implementing the right vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated property strategies. This webinar will cover how to use data you are likely already collecting to understand how the housing market…
Read MoreUsing Parcel Data to Inform Local VAD Strategies
How many vacant properties are in your community? Where are they? What condition are they in? If you don’t have the answers—or don’t know how to use that data when you have it—you’re not alone. This webinar will highlight how communities can capture a variety of property condition information, map their data, and use it…
Read MoreVacancy Persists: But it Looks Different, and the Rules Have Changed
Vacant properties remain a significant source of harm to neighborhoods, despite headlines on the housing shortage and booming residential markets.Yet over the past five years, the forces shaping local efforts to address vacancy—including real estate markets, court rulings, and public funding—have shifted dramatically. To continue working effectively, it is critical for communities to understand what’s…
Read More2026 Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference
Join us in Pittsburgh for the only national conference on dedicated to tackling vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties.
Read More2024 VAD Academy
VAD Academy is a virtual bootcamp for public, private, nonprofit, and community leaders whose work and communities are impacted by challenges related to vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated (or “VAD”) properties.
Read More2024 Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference
The only national conference dedicated to strengthening neighborhoods to help address vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties.
Read MoreResident-First Revitalization in a Rapidly Gentrifying Atlanta Neighborhood: Lessons in Creating Economic Groundcover at 918 Dill Ave
In a neighborhood facing rapid gentrification, how do you advance revitalization projects without harming or displacing legacy residents? And how do you maintain affordability?
Read MoreLive in DC: Alan Mallach’s “Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World”
Join Community Progress at Busboys & Poets for a live conversation with Alan Mallach about how cities can learn to thrive without growth.
Read More2023 VAD Academy
Join us June 21-22 for a live, free, virtual bootcamp to learn everything you need to tackle blighted properties and community revitalization.
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