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The Center for Community Progress is the leading national organization providing expert, high-impact technical assistance to end and prevent entrenched vacancy and property deterioration so that all people can live in safe, affordable, resilient, and equitable neighborhoods. If you’re ready to take a comprehensive approach to ending systemic vacancy in your community, we can help you get there.
What is Technical Assistance?
Technical assistance from Community Progress is a consultation service where we provide expert guidance and analysis to government officials and decision makers tailored to the needs of your community. Our team combines decades of legal, planning, and strategic expertise to assess the state of vacant property in your community, craft recommendations for policy and practice changes, and help you build long-term capacity so implementation succeeds.
Addressing vacancy cannot be solved overnight. What sets Community Progress apart is that our technical assistance team builds relationships to make sure local partners have the ongoing support they need to create long-term solutions to equitably prevent and reduce entrenched vacancy.
Our Services
The technical assistance team at Community Progress has expertise in:
- comprehensive assessment and strategy development to support vacant property revitalization
- property data collection and neighborhood market analysis
- strategic code enforcement
- delinquent property tax enforcement
- land banks and land banking
- vacant land maintenance and reuse strategies
We design solutions to vacancy and deterioration that take into account each community’s unique circumstances, demographics, culture, and history so that all residents can live in resilient, healthy, safe neighborhoods with access to economic opportunities.
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Assess
We will conduct an initial assessment of your existing vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated property (VAD) conditions to help you understand the scope of the problem and which laws, strategies and practices are working—and which aren’t. Our services include:
- Reviewing the legal framework, policies, programs, and capacity related to the systems that impact problem properties
- Analyzing the state of VAD properties in your community
- Calculating the true costs of vacant properties in your community
- Assessing neighborhood stability through housing market, vacancy, and demographic
Recommend
We will work hand in hand with you to craft customized recommendations for specific policy, practice, and strategy changes, including:
- Topic-specific, comprehensive policy recommendations
- Drafting ordinances and laws aimed at addressing VAD properties
- Designing programs to help end and prevent entrenched vacancy, with your community’s specific needs in mind
- Conducting strategic planning and helping develop action plans that result in improved resource allocation and greater impact
Build Capacity
Our team provides the capacity building that is needed to see policy change through. These capacity-building services include:
- Delivering locally based, topic-specific presentations, trainings, and customized resources
- Coaching leaders who will be implementing new policies and practices
- Producing top-tier publications that share best practices for tackling vacancy to inform the field
Our Impact
Addressing Vacant, Abandoned, and Deteriorated Properties in Arkansas
This brief explains how vacant properties harm Arkansas, what communities are doing to address them, and recommend policy ideas for state/local governments.
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Policy Brief: Tyler v. Hennepin County in 2024
Updated analysis for 2024 about the implications of Tyler v. Hennepin County on communities’ ability to tackle vacancy properties.
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Investing in the Vitality of Detroit’s Neighborhoods Through Improved Rental Regulation
Recommendations for changes to Detroit’s Rental Ordinance to help more renter households access safe, healthy housing.
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Addressing Vacant, Abandoned, and Deteriorated Properties in Arkansas
This brief explains how vacant properties harm Arkansas, what communities are doing to address them, and recommend policy ideas for state/local governments.
Policy Brief: Tyler v. Hennepin County in 2024
Updated analysis for 2024 about the implications of Tyler v. Hennepin County on communities’ ability to tackle vacancy properties.
Investing in the Vitality of Detroit’s Neighborhoods Through Improved Rental Regulation
Recommendations for changes to Detroit’s Rental Ordinance to help more renter households access safe, healthy housing.
Our Impact
Addressing Vacant, Abandoned, and Deteriorated Properties in Arkansas
Policy Brief: Tyler v. Hennepin County in 2024
Investing in the Vitality of Detroit’s Neighborhoods Through Improved Rental Regulation
Our Impact
Addressing Vacant, Abandoned, and Deteriorated Properties in Arkansas
Policy Brief: Tyler v. Hennepin County in 2024
Investing in the Vitality of Detroit’s Neighborhoods Through Improved Rental Regulation
Reevaluating Code Enforcement
Establishing a Land Bank in South Bend & St. Joseph County
Reimagine Delinquent Property Tax Enforcement
Our Impact
Addressing Vacant, Abandoned, and Deteriorated Properties in Arkansas
Policy Brief: Tyler v. Hennepin County in 2024
Investing in the Vitality of Detroit’s Neighborhoods Through Improved Rental Regulation
Our Impact
Addressing Vacant, Abandoned, and Deteriorated Properties in Arkansas
This brief explains how vacant properties harm Arkansas, what communities are doing to address them, and recommend policy ideas for state/local governments.
Read More »
Policy Brief: Tyler v. Hennepin County in 2024
Updated analysis for 2024 about the implications of Tyler v. Hennepin County on communities’ ability to tackle vacancy properties.
Read More »
Investing in the Vitality of Detroit’s Neighborhoods Through Improved Rental Regulation
Recommendations for changes to Detroit’s Rental Ordinance to help more renter households access safe, healthy housing.
Read More »
Reevaluating Code Enforcement
Traditional code enforcement—focused on issuing citations and fines—isn’t working in the places that need it most. A more strategic approach could change that.
Read More »
Establishing a Land Bank in South Bend & St. Joseph County
The City of South Bend, Indiana engaged Community Progress to assess the feasibility of a land bank and provide a road map of critical decision points. This report identifies what keeps vacant lots and buildings stuck in a cycle of decline, and how a land bank might help.
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Reimagine Delinquent Property Tax Enforcement
This publication lays a general foundation for understanding the property tax system, but specifically focuses on ways to reform the delinquent property tax enforcement process for vacant properties—those properties that pose the greatest harm to a community.
Read More »
Addressing Vacant, Abandoned, and Deteriorated Properties in Arkansas
This brief explains how vacant properties harm Arkansas, what communities are doing to address them, and recommend policy ideas for state/local governments.
Policy Brief: Tyler v. Hennepin County in 2024
Updated analysis for 2024 about the implications of Tyler v. Hennepin County on communities’ ability to tackle vacancy properties.
Investing in the Vitality of Detroit’s Neighborhoods Through Improved Rental Regulation
Recommendations for changes to Detroit’s Rental Ordinance to help more renter households access safe, healthy housing.
Our Impact
Addressing Vacant, Abandoned, and Deteriorated Properties in Arkansas
Addressing Vacant, Abandoned, and Deteriorated Properties in Arkansas
Addressing Vacant, Abandoned, and Deteriorated Properties in Arkansas
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Our Initiatives
This brief explains how vacant properties harm Arkansas, what communities are doing to address them, and recommend policy ideas for state/local governments.
Updated analysis for 2024 about the implications of Tyler v. Hennepin County on communities' ability to tackle vacancy properties.
Recommendations for changes to Detroit's Rental Ordinance to help more renter households access safe, healthy housing.
Our Impact
Policy Brief: Tyler v. Hennepin County in 2024
Investing in the Vitality of Detroit’s Neighborhoods Through Improved Rental Regulation
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We provide customized expert guidance to local and state leaders across the country to address systemic vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated property issues. Send us a message to request help.