Parcel Data & Neighborhood Markets
Topic
Geography
Observations and Recommendations
This report shares the findings of Community Progress’ 2018 technical assistance engagement with Ogdensburg, New York to support the development of a more effective, efficient, and equitable approach to problem properties.
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Understanding and Reducing Vacancy and Hypervacancy in the United States
In this Lincoln Institute of Land Policy publication, renowned city planner and housing advocate Alan Mallach presents effective strategies for community leaders, local officials, and nonprofits contending with vacant properties in the United States.
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A Community Progress Memo to the Flint Community Development Working Group
This 2018 memo outlines recommendations for Flint, MI leaders to develop a strategic approach to residential property rehab.
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Recommendations to Build a More Proactive and Comprehensive Approach to Vacancy and Abandonment
This report shares the findings of Community Progress’ 2017 technical assistance engagement with Waterbury, Connecticut to assess existing systems, policies, and tools used to address vacant and abandoned properties.
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A Conservative Analysis of Service, Tax Delinquency, and Spillover Costs
In order to raise awareness of the true costs of vacant and distressed property in Pittsburgh, in 2016 the City of Pittsburgh retained the Center for Community Progress to perform a “cost of blight” study.
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An Evaluation of Baltimore’s Vacants to Values Program
This report includes the results of our quantitative or statistical analysis of Baltimore’s Vacants to Value program interventions and their affects on neighborhoods.
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Evaluating Economic Development and Public Safety Outcomes
This research brief analyzes the economic impacts of different greening interventions in Cleveland, Ohio and suggests opportunities for more impactful greening of vacant land in the city.
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A Community Progress Technical Assistance Report
This report shares the findings from our technical assistance engagement with the City of High Point, North Carolina.
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Impacts on City Finances, Vacant Properties, and Vulnerable Owner Occupants
This report shares the findings from our technical assistance engagement with the City of Baltimore, Maryland.
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Developing an Improved Approach to Problem Properties in Rockford
This report shares the findings from our technical assistance engagement with the City of Rockford, Illinois.
Read More...A Brief Primer
This brief explains why understanding local real estate markets and how they affect the community is essential to addressing vacant properties.
Read More...Strategies and Impacts after the Great Recession
Ten years on from the Great Recession, we take stock of lessons learned from that crisis and how they might be applied to future challenges. This edited volume, jointly produced by Community Progress and the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Cleveland, contains twelve articles by national experts in the field of neighborhood revitalization.
Read More...A Guide for Realtors
A resource guide for realtors collecting lessons learned from the Transforming Neighborhoods program that highlights the successful ways REALTORS® and local governments have partnered to enact inclusive and equitable neighborhood development.
Read More...A Community Progress Technical Assistance Report
Community Progress produced this report following a technical assistance engagement with Toledo, Ohio to assess the City’s approach to code enforcement.
Read More...A Flexible Action Plan for the Next Three Years
Community Progress provided technical support in the development of this action plan for the Blight Authority of Memphis, to help BAM play a meaningful role in the local fight against vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties.
Read More...A Community Progress Technical Assistance Report
Community Progress produced this report following a technical assistance engagement with Prince George’s County, Maryland to explore whether a land bank could be leveraged to support local affordable housing goals.
Read More...Reversing the Downward Trajectory of African American Middle Neighborhoods in Legacy Cities
Black urban middle neighborhoods are facing an existential crisis. This report shares key highlights from Alan Mallach’s research from predominately Black neighborhoods in six legacy cities and offers strategies for Black middle neighborhood revival.
Read More...A Community Progress Technical Assistance Report
This report describes neighborhood market conditions and trends in Hartford, to enable the city and other stakeholders to use this information as a critical tool to inform and develop equitable, efficient, and effective strategies to address disinvestment and decline in neighborhoods and build stronger housing markets throughout the city.
Read More...A Community Progress Technical Assistance Report
This report shares the findings of Community Progress’ 2019 technical assistance engagement with the City of Winston-Salem, North Carolina to help local officials and their partners better understand the systemic causes of and solutions to problem properties.
Read More...Feasibility, Efficacy, and Relationship to Existing Tools for Vacant, Abandoned, and Substandard Properties
This report shares the findings of Community Progress’ 2018 technical assistance engagement with Albuquerque, New Mexico to evaluate the feasibility of land banking as a tool to address vacant, abandoned, and substandard properties in Albuquerque.
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