Understanding Neighborhood Housing Markets

Two vacant and boarded-up homes with deteriorating siding sit on overgrown lots along a tree-lined residential street.

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…

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Using Parcel Data to Inform Local VAD Strategies 

A small vacant bungalow with boarded windows, overgrown vines, and an unmowed lot, surrounded by mature trees on a residential street.

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…

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Vacancy Persists: But it Looks Different, and the Rules Have Changed

A two-story yellow craftsman-style home with a red staircase and wraparound porch, partially obscured by mature trees -- next to a deteriorated home with crumbling steps.

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…

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2024 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.

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2023 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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