Publications
Code Enforcement System
A Strategic Curriculum for Local Practitioners Nationwide
A guide to training your code enforcement officers to help achieve your department’s ultimate goal: Compliance.
Read More »Analysis and Recommendations
Analysis and strategy recommendations for using code lien foreclosure in service of neighborhood revitalization while minimizing unintended harm.
Read More »Recommendations to Promote Equitable Code Compliance for Substandard Rental Properties
Community Progress assessed Providence’s code enforcement approach for deteriorating, occupied rental properties and recommended improvements.
Read More »A Strategic Curriculum for Local Practitioners
A curriculum for training code enforcement officers, focused on compliance without unintended harm.
Read More »Addressing Vacant and Abandoned Properties through Code Lien Foreclosure
Guidance for dealing with the community’s vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties.
Read More »Observations and Recommendations
How Lima can address its vacant and abandoned buildings and lots to improve community wellbeing.
Read More »How to Advance Community Goals Through Land Banking and Other Tools
Strategies for acquiring and repurposing vacant properties in New Jersey.
Read More »How Tangled Title Can Lead to Property Vacancy, Abandonment, and Deterioration
This factsheet explains why it’s important to deal with heirs’ property in order to prevent future vacancy and abandonment.
Read More »A Report for the City of Detroit
Recommendations for changes to Detroit’s Rental Ordinance to help more renter households access safe, healthy housing.
Read More »A Brief Primer
This brief explains how equitable, efficient, and effective code enforcement can be successful in preventing vacancy.
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